Nightingale

[nīt´in-gāl″]

Florence (1820– 1910). Founder of modern nursing. She was born in Florence, Italy, of English parents. In 1854 she led a group of nurses to the Crimea to care for English troops, and later she reorganized military nursing and sanitation in England and then India. She also contributed to the field of dietetics, and her skill as a statistician in gathering data won her election to the Royal Statistical Society and honorary membership in the American Statistical Association.

Florence Nightingale. Courtesy of Florence Nightingale Museum, London, U.K.

Night·in·gale

(nīt'in-gāl),

Florence, 1820-1910. English nurse; founder of modern nursing.

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