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Florence Nightingale

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Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) was an English nurse, reformer and statistician. Believing herself called by God to serve, she trained in nursing against her family's wishes, led the nurses at the British military hospital at Scutari during the Crimean War (1854–1856), and afterwards campaigned for sanitary reform in the army and in India and founded a training school for nurses at St Thomas' Hospital, London, in 1860.

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Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not

1859 (London); American edition 1860 · 19th Century · Essays

Notes on Nursing is a short practical book that Florence Nightingale published in 1859, three years after returning from the Crimean War. It was not written as a textbook for professional nurses.

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