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Florence Nightingale was born on May 12, 1820, and was named after her hometown, Florence, Italy. Florence Nightingale is remembered for her nursing skills and her improvements to hospitals. She was the first woman to go to nursing school specifically to become a nurse. Florence played a big role healing the wounded of the Crimean War.
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Florence Nightingale is not only remembered for her nursing skills, but also for the effort she made to improve hospitals. She helped hospitals by organizing all of the clutter. This helped make the normal stress of everyday life in a hospital a little easier to handle.
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Florence also helped hospitals by sanitizing, or cleaning them. This allowed patients to be treated without the fear of catching a new sickness. Keeping hospitals sanitary is still a very important job. |
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Florence Nightingale died on August 13, 1910, in East Wellow, England, at the age of ninety. She will be remembered because of her many great contributions to the world. |
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"It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm. "
~Florence Nightingale
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