Recent commentators have asserted that Nightingale's Crimean War achievements were exaggerated by the media at the time, but critics agree on the importance of her later work in professionalising nursing roles for women. She gave nursing a favourable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of "The Lady with the Lamp" making rounds of wounded soldiers at night. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE 1820-1910 Woodham-Smith, Cecil Published by McGraw Hill Book Company, New York, 1951įlorence Nightingale, OM, RRC, DStJ (/ˈnaɪtɪŋɡeɪl/ – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing.
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