The Life of Florence Nightingale

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This paper discusses how Florence Nightingale was a complex woman, largely responsible for the state of nursing as we know it today. For all of her efforts, she was a product of her upbringing. She had amazing success with changing the hospital conditions in Crimea and establishing the nursing profession as a respectable one before becoming a recluse upon her return to England. This paper highlights some of the events of Florence Nightingale's life."

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"Florence Nightingale was born to an upper middle class family, the daughter of two disillusioned and liberal Unitarians. Florence's mother was the daughter of an abolitionist who sat in the House of Commons. Her father was a wealthy "country gentleman" who had once fought for Parliamentary reform (Bostridge 4)."

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