Презентация на тему Spotlight 11 Florence Nightingale

wealthy aristocratic family, received a brilliant education: she knew

ancient Greek, Latin, French, German and Italian. She saw her main mission in ridding people of disease and death.

would have a family. But Florence did not want

a meaningless life. She wanted to help the sick and the poor. Evently, she persuaded her father to let her become a nurse.
She wrote the books "Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army" 1858and "Notes on Nursing. : What It Is and What It Is Not", 1860

for Sisters of Mercy at St. Thomas's Hospital in

London, giving the organization the money collected by subscription in England.

Cross, in 1904 she became the lady of mercy

of the Order of St. John, and in 1907 she was awarded the Order of Merit.

buried at St. Margaret's Church in Hampshire.