Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale (; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. She significantly reduced death rates by improving hygiene and living standards. Nightingale gave nursing a favourable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of "The Lady with the Lamp" making rounds of wounded soldiers at night.Recent commentators have asserted that Nightingale's Crimean War achievements were exaggerated by the media at the time, but critics agree on the importance of her later work in professionalising nursing roles for women. In 1860, she laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment of her nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital in London. It was the first secular nursing school in the world and is now part of King's College London. In recognition of her pioneering work in nursing, the Nightingale Pledge taken by new nurses, and the Florence Nightingale Medal, the highest international distinction a nurse can achieve, were named in her honour, and the annual International Nurses Day is celebrated on her birthday. Her social reforms included improving healthcare for all sections of British society, advocating better hunger relief in India, helping to abolish prostitution laws that were harsh for women, and expanding the acceptable forms of female participation in the workforce.
Nightingale was a pioneer in statistics; she represented her analysis in graphical forms to ease drawing conclusions and actionables from data. She is famous for usage of the polar area diagram, also called the Nightingale rose diagram, equivalent to a modern circular histogram. This diagram is still regularly used in data visualisation.
Nightingale was a prodigious and versatile writer. In her lifetime, much of her published work was concerned with spreading medical knowledge. Some of her tracts were written in simple English so that they could easily be understood by those with poor literary skills. She was also a pioneer in data visualisation with the use of infographics, using graphical presentations of statistical data in an effective way. Much of her writing, including her extensive work on religion and mysticism, has only been published posthumously. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published 1863London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, 1863.ix, 187 pages : plans. -
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Published 1863London : Edward Stanford, 1863.iv, 91 pages : illustrations, plans. -
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Published 1937Calcutta : Mihir Kumar Sen, 1937.xix, 67 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. -
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Published 1860London : Harrison, [1860?]79 pages. -
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Published 1881London : Spottiswoode & Co., 1881.11 pages. -
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Published 1859London : John W. Parker and Son, 185916 pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations. -
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Published 1878London : C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1878.pages [194]-221. -
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Published 1868London : Strahan & Co., [1868?]pages 360-366 : illustrations. -
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Published 1861Richmond, Va. : J.W. Randolph, 1861.35 pages.