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Florence Nightingale

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Quotations
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Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Florence Nightingale ( 12 May 1820 - 13 August 1910 ) was a British nurse, a pioneer of modern nursing, and a noted statistician. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Cassandra (1860) 1.2 Notes from Devotional Authors of the Middle Ages (1873-1874) 2 Misattributed 3...


Biography

Name: Florence Nightingale
Birth Date: May 12, 1820
Death Date: August 13, 1910
Place of Birth: Florence, Italy
Place of Death: London, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Female
Occupations: nurse

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Biography of Florence Nightingale
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The English nurse Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was the founder of modern nursing and made outstanding contributions to knowledge of public health. Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy, on May 12, 1820, of wealthy parents. Her father was...
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Biography of Florence Nightingale
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Florence Nightingale is generally regarded as having founded the modern profession of nursing. She was born in Florence, Italy, to very wealthy parents who were on an extended honeymoon (2 years) throughout Europe. Her family returned to their estate...
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Biography of Florence Nightingale
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Florence Nightingale "was not simply the lady with the lamp," wrote A. G. Gardiner in 1914; "she was the lady with the brain and the tyrannic will." The self-effacing figure of popular myth--the "ministering angel" who appeared from nowhere, "moved...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Nightingale, Florence Summary
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The founder of modern secular nursing, a social activist, and a pioneer in the use of social statistics, Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) was born on April 12 in Florence, Italy, the child of a wealthy, prominent English family. Given a...
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Florence Nightingale Summary
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1820-1910 English Nurse Driven by a message from God to nurse the sick, Florence Nightingale became known as the mother of the modern nursing profession. She single-handedly changed the way English hospitals functioned and the way nurses worked within...
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Nightingale, Florence Summary
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NIGHTINGALE, FLORENCE (1820–1910), is remembered as a nurse, yet she wrote in her seventies that, when planning her future as a young woman, her one idea was not to organize a hospital but to organize a religion. Nursing researchers,...
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Florence Nightingale Information
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Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC (in her own pronunciation IPA: [ˈflɒɾəns ˈnaɪtɪŋgeɪl]; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910), who came to be known as "The Lady with the Lamp", was a pioneer of modern nursing, a writer and a noted...


News and Journals
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Opera News
Florence Nightingale
06/01/2001: 2,431 words, approx. 8 pages
BROOKS PETERS tells the story of the legendary Florence Foster Jenkins, a soprano without peer In the pantheon of unforgettable divas, there never has been a soprano to rival the legendary Florence Foster Jenkins. She stands alone, a true rara avis...
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Anglican Theological Review
Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian
07/01/2004: 528 words, approx. 2 pages
Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. By Val Webb. St. Louis, Mo.: Chalice Press, 2002. xxiii + 363 pp. $34.99 (cloth). In elementary school, I was told the stoiy of Florence Nightingale, "the lady with the lamp." VaI Webb expands that...
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AP News
Today in History - Aug. 13
8/13/2007: 461 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Monday, Aug. 13, the 225th day of 2007. There are 140 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Aug. 13, 1961, Berlin was divided as East Germany sealed off the border between the city's eastern and western sectors and began building a...
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Kyodo World Service
FEATURE: NPO offers solutions for working parents with sick children
7/25/2007: 909 words, approx. 3 pages
Michiko Nagashima, a 51-year-old house wife, has recently taken on a part-time job as a ''sick-child rescuer.'' Early one morning she received an urgent call from the head office of her employer, nonprofit organization Florence, and hurried off to a working couple's...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Ruth Y. Jenkins
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In the following essay, Jenkins probes Nightingale's theological thought, which, she argues, attempts to reclaim God's ethics for the marginalized feminine.
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Critical Essay by Michael D. Calabria and Janet A. Macrae
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In the following excerpted introduction to Suggestions for Thought, Calabria and Macrae detail the sources of Nightingale's ideas on religion.
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Critical Essay by Evelyn L. Pugh
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In the following essay, Pugh discusses the correspondence of Nightingale and John Stuart Mill as it reveals the thoughts of both individuals on the subject of women's rights.
 
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 86%
Florence Nightingale: The Woman Who Transformed Nursing
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This essay is a biography of Florence Nightingale. Discusses her lifesaving work transforming modern nursing. Examines her service during the Crimean War.
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Essay Grade: 96%
Florence Nightingale
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This essay is on the life of Florence Nightingale and focuses on her achievements and contributions to the medical profession.


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