➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ *LIFE OF FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE*. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ Florence Nightingale was a woman who because of her religious convictions and profound vision of the potential of nursing altered the status of nursing from that of domestic service to that of a profession in the 19th century . She will be forever be remembered for the monumental role she played in the discovery of modern nursing. Nightingale used personal motivation to create a permanent professional transformation of nursing. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1857 described Nightingale as “the Lady with the Lamp” in his poem. The Encyclopedia Britannica records that Florence Nightingale was born on 12 May 1820 in Florence and died on 13 August 1910. She was the second daughter born to William Edwards and Frances Nightingale. She was named after the city of her birth. The Nightingales lived a contented lifestyle. They had two homes one located in Lea Hurst in Derbyshire in Central England and the other at Embley Park in
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