Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was a famous philanthropic English nurse and writer. She is popularly known as 'Lady with the Lamp'. She was founder of nursing profession and pioneer in hospital care who became first female recipient of British Order of Merit.She was born at Florence, of wealthy English parentage; at the age of 22 entered the institution of Protestant Deaconesses at Kaiserswerth to be trained as a nurse, and afterwards studied the methods of nursing and hospital management with the Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul, Paris; after thoroughly reorganising Harley Street Hospital, London, she in 1854 volunteered to organise a staff of nurses to tend the wounded soldiers in the Crimea; arriving at Scutari on the eve of Inkermann she, during the terrible winter of 1854-55, ministered with unwearied devotion to the suffering soldiers; on her return in 1856 she, with public support, established a training college for nurses at St. Thomas's and at King's College Hospital; she is author of "Notes on Nursing," "Notes on Hospitals," &c.
Wisdom & Quotes
- Do you think I should have succeeded in doing anything if I had kicked and resisted and resented? Is it our Master's command? I have been shut out of hospitals into which I had been ordered to go by the Commander-in-Chief - obliged to stand outside the door in the snow till night - have been refused rations for as much as 10 days at a time for the nurses I had brought by superior command. And I have been as good friends the day after with the officials who did these things - have resolutely ignored these things for the sake of the work. ... Who am I that should not choose to bear what my Master chooses to bear?
- To understand God's thoughts, we must study statistics, for these are the measure of his purpose.
Dion Boucicault