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    Florence Nightingale pioneered nursing during the 19th and 20th centuries. She began her work by improving sanitation in military hospitals and then established the standard form of nursing. Florence Nightingale embodied the qualities of the Grad at Grad document through her strong work ethic, promotion of justice, and her ability to gain trust that facilitated the development of leadership. On May 12, 1820, Florence Nightingale was born to William Edward and Frances Nightingale who were wealthy

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    On May 12, 1820 Florence Nightingale was born to William Edward and Frances Nightingale. Florence lived a comfortable life and was well educated. She was never happy with the normal female skins but prefered to have discussions about politics and social discourse with her father. When she was sixteen she said she got a “calling from god” telling her to serve the sick and God; Florence thought nursing was the answer to that. Her parents and family didn’t believe that nursing was an inappropriate behavior

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    Do you agree with the view that it was largely as a result of the work of Florence Nightingale that medical care for British soldiers improved during the Crimean War? (24 marks) Florence Nightingale was a very influential figure both during and after the Crimean War, not always for her work in medicine. Medical care improved for British soldiers during the Crimean War both due to Nightingale and other factors such as the Sanitation Commission. In the years surrounding the Crimean War, many

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    Florence Price, Composer      The purpose of a biography is to enhance the reader’s knowledge about a particular person’s life, in this case, Florence Beatrice Price, and offer a sort of historical background focusing on significant events, accomplishments, and personal aspects of that particular individual’s life. Ideally, the writer molds complex biographical facts—birth and death, education, ambition, conflict, milieu, work, relationship, accident—into a book [or article]

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    Florence Nightingale has long been considered the mother of modern nursing. Despite the social barriers placed before women during the 1800s, something in Florence’s character allowed her to rise that few could have foreseen. Many influential figures in the past have pondered on the idea of ‘greatness.’ As Thomas Carlyle once stated, “The history of the world is but the biography of great men.” Clearly, Carlyle’s thought was narrow-minded, as the biography of Florence Nightingale shows that the history

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    Garcia Yesika Suazo Destiny Rolfe Florence Nightingale Nursing is a job we would consider a very selfless job. It’s a job that requires you to be at your best at every moment because someone’s life or well-being is depending on you. Long shifts may get you tired, you may not have a lunch break because you are working non-stop but you could care less. All you care about is impacting the lives of others. You are constantly putting others before yourself. Florence Nightingale was a remarkable woman

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    Florence Nightingale is most commonly known for her great influence in modern Medicine, even did consults on queens and kings and when the Civil War came around the president asked her advice on how to help the injured soldiers, but she also was a great contributor to mathematics. Many people tend to overlook the fact the fact that "Florence Nightingale is credited with developing a form of the pie chart now known as the polar area diagram, or occasionally the Nightingale rose

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    helping people, serving God in a different capacity. As a religious woman, Florence thought it her responsibility to use her intellect and talents to help people in a capacity greater than she could within the orthodox roles expected of her. She believes that those social burdens do not allow women to live up to their full potential, and that they may never get to do so because of the constraints placed on theme Florence goes on to state that “It seems as if the female spirit of the world were mourning

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    care we still see today. She is Florence Nightingale. By the age of 16, against her family’s wishes, Florence Nightingale decided to forgo the traditional route of marriage and set her sights on nursing. Many refer to this period in time as the “dark age” of nursing. Nurses were typically poor, unskilled and generally seen as unsavory characters. Hospitals were known more as the place you go to die rather than for providing life saving care. This did not deter Florence, she received her first formal

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    Florence Nightingale was born on May 12, 1820 into a rich upper class family in Florence, Italy. She wanted to serve the poor and help the sick from a very young age. Being the most educated of the girls at that time, she attended the nursing education in Germany in 1851. At the time of Crimean War, Nightingale went to Turkey along with a group of well trained nurses. They helped the injured British soldiers. Nightingale noticed that many of the soldiers are dying due to the environmental conditions

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