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Named after the town where she was born, like her sister Frances Parthenope, her family moved to England in 1821. In 1838, she went on a tour of Europe, where she met and got to know Mary Clarke.

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It was in 1837 that she began to take an interest in working for people, and it was in 1844 that she began to have a strong desire to work as a nurse. Her family at first didn't want to help Florence's desire, because the occupation wasn't so well regarded at the time, but she didn't want to give up on the idea and carried on anyway.

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When the Crimean War broke out in 1853, a number of health workers were called in to work in hospitals treating the wounded. The minister at the time, Sidney Herbert, came under pressure to take measures to improve the condition of the army, and as he was known to Florence, he asked her to form a team to care for the soldiers in the war, becoming head of nursing in 1954.

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In 1860, she laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment of her nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital in London. It was the first secular nursing school in the world and is now part of King's College London

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During her first winter at Scutari, 4,077 soldiers died there. Ten times more soldiers died from illnesses such as typhus, typhoid, cholera, and dysentery than from battle wounds. With overcrowding, defective sewers and lack of ventilation, the Sanitary Commission had to be sent out by the British government to Scutari in March 1855, almost six months after Nightingale had arrived. The commission flushed out the sewers and improved ventilation.Death rates were sharply reduced, but she never claimed credit for helping to reduce the death rate.

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After his countless contributions, at the end of his life he ended up in absolute rest at home due to typhoid fever, and died on August 13, 1910, at the age of 90. As a tribute, Nursing Week is celebrated in Brazil from May 12 to 20. And May 12th was established as Nurses' Day.

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1. Florence Nightingale was known as the "Lady with the Lamp"

2. This nickname is due to the fact that she always visited the soldiers of the Crimean War with a lamp, after which the lamp was constantly used as a representative object of nursing.

3. She was one of the first people to talk about hygienic care in hospitals, and how it affected the treatment of various diseases. Contributing to hygienic standards in medical environments.