Florence Nightingale: The Lady with a Lamp
Science Datebook: May 12, 1820 – Florence Nightingale was born.
Florence Nightingale (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was a celebrated English nurse, writer and a statistician. As an Anglican, she believed that God had called her to be a nurse. She pioneered work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers.
Nightingale is famously referred to as “The Lady with the Lamp” after her habit of making rounds at night. In 1860, she laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment of her nursing school at St. Thomas’s Hospital in London. It is the first secular nursing school in the world, now part of King’s College London.
The annual international Nurses Day is celebrated worldwide on her birthday, May 12, and the Nightingale Pledge taken by new nurses named in her honour.
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