Florence Nightingale was the founder of modern nursing. She used to be presented as the saintly "Lady with the Lamp"", moving among the wounded in the Crimean War of 1854. But she was much more than this. She was a tough, resourceful woman, whose fight to get better conditions in hospitals won her respect throughout the world. For years her family stopped her from becoming a nurse, because nurses had such a bad reputation: they were regarded as the dregs of society, given to drink and prostitution. She changed all this. She plunged into pioneering research, and became Britain's expert on every aspect of hospital care. She took on the military leaders and government ministers who opposed her reforms. For fifty years, she worked tirelessly both for nurses, and for several other suffering groups in society. By the time she died, she had achieved a transformation. Hospitals were clean, life-saving places and nursing had become the respected skilled profession it is today."

 

This book is part of a book series called People Who Have Helped the World .

This book is aimed at the following children: primary school, secondary school .

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 1988 by Exley Publications Ltd .