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Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), known as "The Lady with the Lamp," was a British nurse, social reformer, and statistician, best known as the founder of modern nursing Her experiences as a nurse during the Crimean War were foundational in her views about sanitation. Her efforts to reform healthcare greatly influenced the quality of care in the 19th and 20th centuries. Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy, on May 12, 1820, to Frances Nightingale and William Shore Nightingale. From a very young age, Florence Nightingale was active in philanthropy, ministering to the ill and poor people in the village neighboring her family's estate. In 1844, Nightingale enrolled as a nursing student at the Lutheran Hospital of Pastor Fliedner in Kaiserwerth, Germany. In the early 1850s, Nightingale returned to London, where she took a nursing job in a Middlesex hospital for ailing governesses. Her performance there impressed her employer that Nightingale was promoted to superintendent within just a year of being hired. Nightingale made a change by improving hygiene practices, significantly lowering the death rate at the hospital in the process. in October of 1853, the Crimean War broke out. Thousands of British soldiers were sent to the Black Sea, where supplies quickly dwindled. By 1854, no fewer than 18,000 soldiers had been admitted into military hospitals. in late 1854, Nightingale received a letter from Secretary of War Sidney Herbert, asking her to organize a corps of nurses to tend to the sick and fallen soldiers in the Crimea. Nightingale rose to her calling. She quickly assembled a team of 34 nurses and sailed with them to the Crimea just a few days later. The no-nonsense Nightingale quickly set to work. Nightingale herself spent every waking minute caring for the soldiers. In the evenings she moved through the dark hallways carrying a lamp while making her rounds, ministering to patient after patient. The soldiers, who were both moved and comforted by her endless supply. of compassion, took to calling her "the Lady with the Lamp." Others simply called her "the Angel of the Crimea." Her work reduced the hospital's death rate by two-thirds. For her admirable deeds in medical fields, she was conferred the merit of honor by King Edward in 1908. 2. When was she born?

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