Florence Nightingale

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Florence Nightingale
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Florence Nightingale

• Florence was born in Italy on May 12th 1820. She
  was named Florence after the town in which she
  was born.

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The Young Florence

• When Florence was a child she did not go to
  school.
• Her father taught her at home.
• She learnt lots of things, but her favourite was
  maths.

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Florence went to Kaiserwerth

• Florence always wanted to be a nurse.
• Her parents did not want her to be a nurse, as
  they thought that it was not a job for a woman.
• She went to Germany to train, unknown to her
  parents!
• It was hard work, she had to get up before 5
  oclock in the morning and she didnt finish
  until 7 oclock at night!

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Florence went to Scutari

• In March 1854, Britain, France and Turkey
  declared war on Russia.
• Florence took 30 nurses to Scutari, which is near
  Turkey, to help in the hospitals there.
• The soldiers were fighting in the Crimean War.
  They were getting injured.

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Florence worked in the hospital

• The hospitals were dirty.
• Florence and the nurses managed to clean them up.
• She was called the Lady with the Lamp because she
  went round the wards at night to see that the
  soldiers were all right.

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Florence Nightingale

• Florence got a reputation for being an extremely
  caring nurse.
• The conditions in the hospitals were awful, but
  her caring nature really helped soldiers from
  both sides of the war.

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Florence met Queen Victoria

• Everybody in England heard what she was doing.
• When she went home she met Queen Victoria.
• She must have felt very proud.
• She was also given 50,000 to open a new nursing
  school to teach new nurses her ways.

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Florences last days

• Florence was ill for a long time.
• She hardly ever got out of bed.
• She wrote lots of letters to important people.
• She saw that nurses were trained properly.

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Florence Nightingale

• Florence died at the age of 90, on 13th August
  1910.
• Florence Nightingale was a heroine. She did more
  than any other one person to improve the care
  people received in hospital.