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Who is Florence Nightingale?


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Florence Nightingale (May 12 1820 to August 13 1910) was a famous British nurse whose work first caught notice during the Crimean War. She founded the first secular nursing school in the world, and set the example for all of modern nursing, both in providing medical care and in creating new ways of presenting medical data. More for ChaCha?

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Florence Nightingale is most remembered as a pioneer of nursing, writer, statistician and a reformer of hospital methods.

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Famous for her work in the military hospitals, Nightingale established nursing as a respectable profession for women. ChaCha

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