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	Florence Nightingale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Florence Nightingale, OM (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910), who came to be known as The Lady with the Lamp, was a pioneer of modern nursing.
		Nightingale was courted by politician and poet Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, but she rejected him, convinced that marriage would interfere with her ability to follow her calling to nursing.
		Florence Nightingale returned to Britain a heroine on August 7, 1857, and, according to the BBC, was arguably the most famous Victorian after Queen Victoria herself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Florence_Nightingale (2329 words)

	The Florence Nightingale Museum
		Florence Nightingale was a legend in her lifetime but the Crimean War years which made her famous were just two out of a life of ninety years.
		Florence Nightingale died at home at the age of 90 on 13 August 1910 and, according to her wishes, she was buried at St Margaret's, East Wellow, near her parent's home, Embley Park in Hampshire.
		Florence Nightingale's farsighted reforms have influenced the nature of modern health care and her writings continue to be a resource for nurses, health managers and planners.
	www.florence-nightingale.co.uk /flo2.htm (1196 words)

	Florence Nightingale - MSN Encarta
		Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), British nurse and hospital reformer who became internationally known as the founder of modern nursing.
		Nightingale became a national hero and was called the Lady with the Lamp and the Angel of the Crimea.
		Florence Nightingale’s contributions to the evolution of nursing as a profession were invaluable.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577963/Florence_Nightingale.html (656 words)

	Florence Nightingale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Florence Nightingale is most remembered as a pioneer of nursing and a reformer of hospital sanitation methods.
		Florence Nightingale's two greatest life achievements--pioneering of nursing and the reform of hospitals--were amazing considering that most Victorian women of her age group did not attend universities or pursue professional careers.
		Nightingale was able to use the data as a tool for improving city and military hospitals.
	www.agnesscott.edu /lriddle/women/nitegale.htm (573 words)

	BBC - History - Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910)
		Florence Nightingale can boast at least two firsts among her achievements - not only was she the first to found training schools for nurses, she was also the first woman elected fellow of the Statistical Society because of her contribution to army statistics.
		Born to William Edward and Frances Nightingale (in Florence, Italy, hence her name) she was expected to fulfil the usual role of a wealthy young woman, making a good marriage and living a conventional life.
		Because her parents considered the profession inappropriate to a woman of Florence's standing, she was denied her wish to train as a nurse and Florence may have suffered from bouts of depression in response to her situation.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/nightingale_florence.shtml (309 words)

	Nightingale biography
		Florence Nightingale is best remembered for her work as a nurse during the Crimean War and her contribution towards the reform of the sanitary conditions in military field hospitals.
		Nightingale developed an interest in the social issues of the time, but in 1845 her family was firmly against the suggestion of Nightingale gaining any hospital experience.
		Nightingale returned to Kaiserswerth, in 1851, to undertake 3 months of nursing training at the Institute for Protestant Deaconesses and from Germany she moved to a hospital in St Germain, near Paris, run by the Sisters of Mercy.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Nightingale.html (1832 words)

	Florence Nightingale
		Florence Nightingale, the daughter of the wealthy landowner, William Nightingale of Embly Park, Hampshire, was born in Florence, Italy, on 12th May, 1820.
		Florence's desire to have a career in medicine was reinforced when she met Elizabeth Blackwell at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London.
		John Delane, the editor of newspaper took up her cause, and after a great deal of publicity, Nightingale was given the task of organizing the barracks hospital after the battle of Inkerman and by improving the quality of the sanitation she was able to dramatically reduce the death-rate of her patients.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REnightingale.htm (1924 words)

	Florence Nightingale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Florence Nightingale - In-depth information of this pioneer in nursing and a brief overview of some of her works.
		Florence Nightingale: "Handmaiden of the Lord" - A brief overview by The National Episcopal AIDS Coalition, emphazing the caring and compassion of nurses today inspired by Nightingale's faith and commitment to nursing.
		Florence Nightingale was a bright, tough, driven professional, a brilliant organizer and statistician, and one of the most influential women in 19th-century England.
	www.nurses.info /personalities_florencenightingale.htm (647 words)

	Florence Nightingale (1820 -- 1910)
		Florence Nightingale was born on 12 May 1820 at the Villa La Columbaia in Florence; she was named after the city of her birth.
		Florence Nightingale had a broad education and came to dislike the lack of opportunity for females in her social circle.
		Nightingale died in South Street, Park Lane, London, on 13 August 1910 at the age of ninety and was buried on 20 August in the family plot at East Wellow, Hampshire.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/crimea/florrie.html (1752 words)

	IMA Hero: Florence Nightingale HH
		Florence Nightingale is the founder of modern nursing.
		Florence Nightingale was born on May 12, 1820, in Florence, Italy.
		Florence Nightingale died on August 13, 1910, in London, England.
	www.imahero.com /herohistory/florence_herohistory.htm (716 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Nightingale, Florence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Nightingale refused to be pushed into any of the limited roles (wife, mother, social ornament) available to middle class women of the time.
		Nightingale persisted, however, and in 1850 she began to study nursing in Egypt, Germany, and France.
		Nightingale's exacting and efficient approach to nursing helped reduce the death rate from diseases such as cholera, typhus, and dysentery from almost 50% to 2%.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/nightingale_f.html (896 words)

	Florence Nightingale
		She was born in Florence on 12 May 1820 of upper-class English parents travelling through Italy, and named for her native city.
		Florence prayed God to raise him from the dead, explaining that she needed him for the job.
		After his death, Florence wrote to a friend that suffering, disappointment, and lack of success are the tribute which it is the soul's greatest privilege to present to God.
	www.satucket.com /lectionary/Florence_Nightingale.htm (1943 words)

	The National Archives Learning Curve \| Snapshots \| Florence Nightingale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		On 4 November 1854 Florence Nightingale and her party of 38 nurses arrived at the Barrack Hospital in Scutari.
		Florence Nightingale and Elisabeth Herbert (the wife of Sidney Herbert, the Secretary of War) are interviewing a woman who wants to go to the Crimea as a nurse.
		Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy on 12th May 1820.
	www.learningcurve.gov.uk /snapshots/snapshot40/snapshot40.htm (1073 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Women's History - Biographies - Florence Nightingale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Though Florence was tempted by prospects of a brilliant social life and marriage, she had a stronger strain that demanded independence, dominance in some field of activity, and obedience to God by selfless service to society.
		Nightingale saw that her first task was to convert the military doctors to accept her and her nurses.
		Florence Nightingale is the subject of a famous chapter in Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918); though unduly harsh, it rests on solid insight and has shaped the understanding of her personality.
	www.gale.com /free_resources/whm/bio/nightingale_f.htm (1058 words)

	Florence Nightingale
		Florence Nightingale was the daughter of a well-to-do family in England.
		Florence went against the wishes of her wealthy parents and defied social custom when she took up a career that no respectable woman of that day would even consider.
		Florence Nightingale is the child of wealthy parents in 19th-century England.
	gardenofpraise.com /ibdnight.htm (980 words)

	Florence Nightingale
		Florence volunteered as a nurse with a group of other women and left her home on October 21, 1854.
		Florence would check on and comfort the patients at night, walking the halls with a lamp.
		In May 1855, Florence went to the battlefront in Crimea, but she became sick with the Crimean fever and was told she only held authority in Barrack Hospital.
	www.angelfire.com /anime2/100import/nightingale.html (448 words)

	Florence Nightingale's Mathematical Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Florence expressed her preference for mathematics by saying, "I don't think I shall succeed so well in anything that requires quickness as in what requires only work." [1] Her parents finally granted permission.
		Florence Nightingale's interest in mathematics extended beyond the subject matter itself, as shown in letters to her sweetheart during 1846.
		Nightingale helped to promote what was then a revolutionary idea (and a religious one for her) that social phenomena could be objectively measured and subjected to mathematical analysis.
	www.agnesscott.edu /Lriddle/WOMEN/night_educ.htm (556 words)

	The My Hero Project - Florence Nightingale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Florence Nightingale entered the hospital and was appalled and horrified by what she saw.
		Florence and a group of nurses were sent to this hospital to help make the hospital a more efficient place.
		Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy on May 12, 1820.
	myhero.com /hero.asp?hero=f_Nightingale (1316 words)

	Florence Nightingale: Adelaide Nutting's Introduction
		It is mentioned by many of her biographers and one in particular speaks of it as having the "magic power of a great personality, and a rare character." Among my treasured memories is that of a visit to her early in the present century.
		Now that Florence Nightingale is with us only in rich and precious memories, and in great and living traditions, it is a rare privilege to be given the opportunity of adding to these by listening to her speak through the medium of this phonograph record her actual words, recorded in London in the year 1890.
		Robert Vincent was the heir of the Edison project that recorded Florence Nightingale's voice in 1890.
	www.countryjoe.com /nightingale/nutting.htm (590 words)

	Florence Nightingale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Although her approach is deceptively simple (what nursing is and what it is not), the implications of her theoretical work are profound and have relevant meaning today at many levels of nursing practice.
		Florence Nightingale Letters at the University of Kansas.
		Nightingale’s use of Statistics in the Crimean War.
	www.nurses.info /nursing_theory_person_nightingale_florence.htm (280 words)

	Country Joe McDonald's Florence Nightingale Tribute
		n the 12th of May, 1820, in the city of Florence, Italy, Frances Nightingale gave birth to her second child.
		In honor of the city of her birth and in keeping with the tradition started by her parents, the little girl was named Florence.
		FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE but that her works would live on forever.
	www.countryjoe.com /nightingale (648 words)

	Florence Nightingale
		It was the new science of statistics that revealed to her that she and her medical staff had neglected even the most elementary sanitary precautions, and her patients had paid with their lives.
		Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel posits a complex game in which Nightingale was used to further a purpose which went far beyond reform.
		She was not "the merciful angel of Scutari whose personal purity silenced the curses in the soldiers' throats and made the surgeons gentle." She was a crusader, an innovator and the prophet of an important social movement.
	www.ralphmag.org /nightingaleZJ.html (782 words)

	Gravesite of Florence Nightingale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The revolutionary accomplishments of Miss Nightingale are well documented; readers are referred to both the selected list of literature and the Internet resources for background on the life of Florence Nightingale.
		O'Malley, I.B. Florence Nightingale 1820-1856: A Study of Her life Down to the End of the Crimean War.
		Slater, V.B. The Educational and Philosophical Influences on Florence Nightingale, An Enlightened Conductor.
	www.aahn.org /gravesites/nightingale.html (292 words)

	Florence Nightingale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910), British nurse, hospital reformer, and humanitarian.
		After the Crimean War broke out in 1854, Nightingale, stirred by reports of the primitive sanitation methods and grossly inadequate nursing facilities at the large British barracks-hospital at Üsküdar (now part of Istanbul, Turkey), dispatched a letter to the British secretary of war, volunteering her services in the Crimea.
		At the close of the war in 1860, with a fund raised in tribute to her services, Nightingale founded the Nightingale School and Home for Nurses at Saint Thomas's Hospital in London.
	www.distinguishedwomen.com /biographies/nighting.html (391 words)

	Florence Nightingale Pledge Links for Nurse by Nurses
		It was called the Florence Nightingale Pledge as a token of esteem for the founder of modern nursing.
		Florence Nightingale at Seventy - An early recording of Florence Nightingale
		Florence Nightingale - Written by Cynthia Audain, Class of 1998 (Agnes Scott College)
	www.cybernurse.com /florencepledge.html (194 words)

	Florence Nightingale - Statistical Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Florence Nightingale's role in the history of statistics and statistical graphics is of interest for many reasons.
		Of greatest interest here, was her role as a social activist and view that statistical data, presented in charts and diagrams, could be used as powerful arguments for medical reform.
		Kopf, E. (1916), "Florence Nightingale as Statistician," Journal of the American Statistical Association, 15, 388-404.
	www.math.yorku.ca /SCS/Gallery/flo.html (136 words)

	FAQ
		Seacole, apparently because of her colour, but Nightingale had already left for the war at that time and was not involved.
		Also, throughout her life Florence Nightingale actively fought against the religious prejudice that existed in England.
		Visit the home page if you want to learn more about the first new biography of Florence Nightingale for fifty years, which solves many of the mysteries surounding her.
	www.florence-nightingale-avenging-angel.co.uk /faq.htm (1686 words)

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