Florence Nightingale

Born: 1820

Death: 1910

Biography:

Florence Nightingale was an English social reformer and the founder of modern nursing. She came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, where she significantly reduced death rates by improving hygiene and living standards for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. Florence Nightingale gave nursing a favourable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture. In 1860, she established her nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital in London, which was the first secular nursing school in the world.