Nursing NUR102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Environmental Health
12 Nov 2016
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Regarded world-wide as the founder of modern nursing, florence nightingale was born on may. She came from a well-educated family of affluent, aristocratic victorians. She was mostly educated by her father on broader topics, such as mathematics, religion, language and philosophy, rather than what girls of that time were generally taught. During her childhood and most of her adolescent life, nightingale would often accompany her mother whenever her mother was called to help for medical emergencies. She was a typical teenage girl, until she received a calling, a sense that her life should be more useful. Although she did not understand at that time, her calling was god"s message of serving others. She grew to understand her role in life and completed her nursing training in 1851 at a german, Later on, she was requested to serve in the crimean war and take care for injured british soldiers.
