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Juan Velandia Bonilla

Bogota -
Cundinamarca
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“Florence Nightingale, , the most famous nurse in the world, devoted
most of her ninety years of life to India, although she was never able to
travel to that country she loved”

Florence Nightingale

He was born on May 12, 1820 in Florence, at that

time the capital of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
Belonging to a wealthy family, she was the
daughter of William Edward Nightingale and
Frances Smith; Frances, her older sister was a
writer and journalist. Every May 12, coinciding
with the anniversary of his birth, the International
Nursing Day is celebrated.
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 in London, a position he held until October 1854. In this institution

he made some improvements, such as the installation of hot water in
the rooms or the location of an elevator.
  On October 21, 1854, Florence and a team of thirty-eight
volunteer nurses - many of them inexperienced, and personally
trained by Florence - set out to the front. They were transported
across the Black Sea to the British base of operations at Scutari: they
arrived in early November 1854.
 mortality from 40% to 2%. Florence Nightingale is best

remembered for her work as a nurse during the Crimean War and
for her contribution to the reform of sanitary conditions in military field
hospitals.