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  2. Florence Nightingale - Wikipedia

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    Florence Nightingale (/ ˈ n aɪ t ɪ ŋ ɡ eɪ l /; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing.Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. [4]

  3. Ella King Newsom - Wikipedia

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    Ella King Newsom (1833–1919; also known as Ella King Newsome) was a nurse for the Confederacy in the American Civil War. [2] [3] She earned the nickname of the "Florence Nightingale of the South." [3] [4] Newsom served as he matron of Chattanooga's Academy Hospital, working on the front in Tennessee from 1861–1862.

  4. Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery

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    Also on the photo is Sir Harry Verney, an active supporter of the nursing school. [2] Florence Nightingale, depicted in this popular lithograph reproduction of The Lady with the Lamp as painted by Henrietta Rae, 1891. The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care is an academic faculty within King's College London.

  5. List of nurses - Wikipedia

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    Florence Udell President of the Royal College of Nursing 1964-1966. Florence Wald (1917-2008), founder of the hospice movement in the U.S. Lillian Wald (1867-1940), founder of visiting nursing in the U.S. Jean Watson, an American nurse theorist and nursing professor, best known for her Theory of Human Caring.

  6. Germ theory's key 19th century figures - Wikipedia

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    Statistical diagram created by Florence Nightingale detailing cause of death in the British army in The Crimean War. Though Nightingale first believed bad air was the cause of disease, she used the term "germ" in her contribution to Dr. Richard Quain's medical dictionary which was published in 1883: [17] [18]

  7. Frances Parthenope Verney - Wikipedia

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    Florence Nightingale and Sir Harry Verney. On 24 June 1858, Parthenope married Harry Verney, 2nd Baronet, MP for Buckingham, a supporter of liberal causes and possessor of the family seat, Claydon House. Harry Verney had become involved with the Nightingale after his late wife's request for their daughter to meet Florence Nightingale.

  8. Daughter's 4-Sentence Obit for Mom Who 'Burnt Bridges ... - AOL

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    According to Novak, her mother, a former Maine State Prison corrections officer, died months before anyone in the family noticed. Novak, who hadn't spoken to her mom in a decade, says she only ...

  9. Linda Richards - Wikipedia

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    In an effort to upgrade her skills, Richards took an intensive, seven-month nurse training program in England in 1877. She trained under Florence Nightingale (who set up a training school for nurses) and was a resident visitor at St Thomas' Hospital and King's College Hospital in London, and the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. On her return to ...