Florence Nightingale Research Paper

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The honorary Florence Nightingale deemed the “founder of modern nursing” was born in Florence, Italy on May 12th, 1820. From a very early age it was evidence she was destined to care for the sick and injured. She eventually chooses to educate herself on the care of the ill and traveled to Germany to attend nursing school. There she worked as a nursing superintendent at the Intuition for Care of the Sick Gentleman in Distressed Circumstances, it is there she began to implement her own ideas on improving the quality of patient care. Nightingale went on to join a group of skilled nurses in Turkey who provided nursing care to wounded soldiers in a local military hospital. With her works, there was a shift from 48% to 2% war causalities in only

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