Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale, OM (12 May 1820–13 August 1910), who came to be known as The Lady with the Lamp, was the pioneer of modern nursing. Each year, the International Nurses Day is celebrated on her birth anniversary.

Royal recognition

In 1883 Queen Victoria awarded Florence Nightingale with the Royal Red Cross and in 1907 she became the first woman to be awarded the Order of Merit. In 1908 she was given the Honorary Freedom of the City of London. She could not leave her bed after 1896 and died on August 13, 1910. The offer of burial in Westminster Abbey was declined by her relatives, and she is buried in the graveyard at St. Margaret Church in East Wellow, England.

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1883 - 1907 - Order of Merit - City of London - August 13 - 1910 - Westminster Abbey - St. Margaret Church - East Wellow

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Florence Nightingale's lasting contribution has been her role in founding the nursing profession, and in the shining example she set for nurses throughout the profession of commitment to patient care and hospital administration. There is a Florence Nightingale Museum in London.

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There are countless examples of Florence Nightingale's continuing legacy in the nursing profession that she founded, from the continuing work of the Nightingale School of Nursing and throughout the entire field of nursing education and medical records.

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Today, there are three hospitals in Istanbul named after her: F. N. Hastanesi in ?i?li, (the biggest private hospital in Turkey), Metropolitan F.N. Hastanesi in Gayrettepe and Avrupa F.N. Hastanesi in Mecidiyeköy, all belonging to the Turkish Cardiology Foundation.

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During the Vietnam War, Florence Nightingale served as an inspiration for many US Army nurses and sparked a continuing renewal of interest in her life and work, that, inter alia, caught the attention of Country Joe of Country Joe and the Fish who has assembled an extensive web site in her honor http://www.countryjoe.com/nightingale/.

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US Army - Country Joe - Country Joe and the Fish

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The Agostino Gemelli Medical Centre in Rome http://www3.unicatt.it/pls/unicatt/consultazione.mostra_pagina?id_pagina=9396&id_lingua=4, the first University-based hospital in Italy and one of its most respected medical centers, is the research and teaching hospital of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart). It honored Florence Nightingale's contribution to the nursing profession by giving the name Bedside Florence to a wireless ward system they have developed that equips nurses with Compaq iPAQ hand-held computers connected to a Windows 2000 wireless network http://www.microsoft.com/resources/casestudies/CaseStudy.asp?CaseStudyID=13133.

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Compaq - IPAQ - Computer - Windows 2000 - Wireless network

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