Research Paper Florence Nightingale

PROFILE A LEADER 1. Florence Nightingale(12th May 1820-13thAugust 1910)
Florence Nightingale was born in Italy then moved to London when she was a young girl, one day at her home in London she went to see one of her father’s workers who was ill and while she was their she suggested to his wife that she should take him to a hospital and she was shocked that Ms. Nightingale could suggest such a place because the hospitals they went to was a place of death and the conditions were not good.
14 years later Florence declined a marriage proposal and decided that she was going to work at a hospital in London and she wished for their blessing.
When she was working at the hospital she read the news paper and it talked about the horrible conditions
in the hospital in the Crimean war (the Russian Empire with an alliance of France, the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Ottoman Empire on the other). So she took some of Elizabeth Fry’s nurses and went to the main hospital in Turkey. When she got there she was mortified by the conditions of the hospital and the way the soldiers where been looked after, most of them died from sickness due to the hospitals conditions rather than battle wounds.
Florence went against her orders and took some items from the supply room that she said the soldiers and nurses needed, she was found out and told to listen to orders or go home.
So she and the nurses decided that they would have to do the best that they could with their situation.
After she had been there for a long time everyone loved her they called her the queen of the nurses, the soldiers friend and the angle of the trenches, the lady with the lamp, they were only some of her
titles.
She went to the front line after she had worked at the main hospital for a long time. While she was there she became ill while she was ill she received a letter from her parents telling them how proud they were of her and she also was given the order of merit and was the only women to be given one.
When she got better she went back to the main hospital where she was saluted be everyone in the hall when she was walking past them.

2. Florence’s leadership experiences include: * When she decided to go against the normal ways of a women in those days * When she went to the war * When she went to the hospital in Turkey because of the shortage of nurses/doctors * When she went to the front line and helped the wounded and sick there * She trained the nurses she took to Turkey herself * When she went into the storeroom against orders then stayed even though they were in horrible conditions

3.Characteristics * Listening * Kindness * Strong will * Demanding * Intelligent * Persistent * Speaking * Team work * Respect

4.
Admiring the leader
I admire Florence because she was an incredible woman who did something different that no one would have ever thought of doing in the time, I like her because she went to the war and proved that women where just as capable in the medical world as men and she even made some of the doctors look bad because she was better than them. I also like that even though she was sick so many were waiting for her recovery. Florence also had many names and that just show how much the people loved her.

5. * Florence was the first women to receive the order of merit. * She wrote several books on nursing, also she mentored the first US nurse. * In 1859 Florence had L45,000 at her disposal for her Nightingale fund to set up the nightingale training school at St. Thomas hospital. * Her birthday is now celebrated as a International CFS Awareness Day. * She also had a gift for mathematics * A man named Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote a poem about Florence while she was in the Crimean war. * She was the most famous person after Queen Victoria in her
time. * There is now a Florence Nightingale Medal that is awarded to honor people who have distinguished themselves in times of peace or war by doing good. * There is also a Florence Nightingale Museum in London and also another one devoted to her at her sisters home. * She was named after her birthplace in Florence, Italy. 6.