"Nurse of the White Angel" - Florence Nightingale (World Outstanding Figures Series)

Author: Su Li Xiangyun Jun Wang
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Publish Date: 2004-03-16
Features: Florence Nightingale is one of the founders of modern nursing and nursing education in Europe and America. Her great compassion created "Nursing History" and was hailed as the "Angel of Crimea." Nightingale was born on May 12, 1820, into a British noble family and received a good yet strict upbringing. Kind-hearted and filled with a passion for helping the poor and needy, she was determined to dedicate herself to caring for the sick. In 1850, she went to Germany to study nursing. Later, when the Crimean War broke out, she led 38 nurses to the front lines to care for wounded soldiers. There, she worked tirelessly, day and night, tending to injured soldiers and overcoming various difficulties to establish hospital management systems and improve nursing quality, which rapidly reduced mortality rates among the wounded. Selfless and dedicated to saving lives, she was revered by countless successors and laid a solid foundation for the International Red Cross. In 1860, she founded the first nursing school in London,ing the development of nursing work and nursing education in Western Europe and around the world, and wrote several nursing such as "Notes on Nursing" and "The Development of Nursing Work and Nursing Education in Western Europe and Around the World." The poet Longfellow once praised her thus: "In the history of humanity, she is a holy example and a heroic woman, the angel with the oil lamp." The "Nightingale Prize" has become the highest award for outstanding and excellent nurses.