Florence Nightingale's Influence On Society

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There are many people that are influential in the world. Those people impact the world in a
Positive way by inspiring people to follow their dreams, standing up for what they believe in and overcome obstacles in their life. An individual that will show those traits will become to save lives/a nurse. Florence Nightingale is influential because of her role models, remarkable acts, and her heroic acts that impacted society. Florence Nightingale is influential because of her accomplishments. According to (nationalarchives.gov) it says “when Florence Nightingale got to the hospital, she saw that wounded men were sleeping in overcrowded, dirty rooms without any blankets.” Wounded soldiers often arrived with diseases like typhus, cholera and dysentery. “More men died from these diseases than from their injuries.”This quote is important to know because it shows how she is about to accomplish something in her nursing career. According to (britannica.com) says “She
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This quote is important to know her legacy because she she got a lot of money (nationalarchives.gov.uk) says “Nearly a century after the death of Florence nightingale, historians continue to debate debate before she died. “Florence Nightingale was a heroine to the British soldiers she cared for during the Crimean War and a gadfly on the rumps of British parliamentarians who led Britain into that pointless conflict but left its troops poorly supported and needlessly vulnerable to disease.” This explains why her legacy was important because she worked hard before she died. “As there was little nursing training at the time, Florence Nightingale was virtually self taught. Learning through experience she established herself as a nurse and one of the first experts on public hygiene and sanitary conditions.This quote you should know because it gives a lot of information about Nightingale's life and how she liked to help people her whole