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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]
Annie Matheson (29 March 1853 – 16 March 1924) was a British Victorian era poet. She was known to have written one of the first biographies of Florence Nightingale as well as several volumes of meditative and lyrical poetry.
Nightingale incorporated spiritual philosophy into her practicing of nursing in order for herself, and nurses and patients alike, to understand and begin to accept illness and their potential devastating outcomes. [28] Nightingale felt that a spiritual purpose was an intrinsic part of the healing process. [28]
1854 – Florence Nightingale appointed as the Superintendent of Nursing Staff. 1854 – Florence Nightingale and 38 volunteer nurses are sent to Turkey on October 21 to assist with caring for the injured of the Crimean War. 1854 – In a letter written November 15, 1854, to Dr Bowman, Florence Nightingale gives definite statistics:
A new film, "The 21," recounts the beheadings 10 years ago of 21 Coptic Christians by ISIS radicals. But the film also displays the Christians' stunning faith in God, the film's producer said.
She was known as the "Florence Nightingale of America". [23] She was also known as the "Angel of the Battlefield" [13] [24] after she came to the aid of the overwhelmed surgeon on duty following the battle of Cedar Mountain in Northern Virginia in August 1862. She arrived at a field hospital at midnight with a large number of supplies to help ...
Florence Nightingale. 1; 2; 3 Joanna, Mary, and Salome, myrrh-bearing women (Commemoration) W – LCMS; 4; 5; 6 Transfiguration of Our Lord (W) - More commonly observed on the last Sunday after Epiphany; 7; 8 Dominic, priest, founder of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans), 1221 (Commemoration) W – ELCA; 9; 10 Lawrence, deacon, martyr 258 ...
Lynn McDonald, "Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole: Which is the Forgotten Hero of Health Care and Why". Scottish Medical Journal 59,1 (1 February 2014):66–69; “Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole on Nursing and Health Care.” Journal of Advanced Nursing 69,11 (November 2013). Lynn McDonald, Mary Seacole: The Making of the Myth ...