International Nurses Day

The first Florence.......

Her parents chose her name from the city she was born in, two hundred years ago. She was a privileged child receiving an education unusual for women at that time. By her late thirties, she was bedridden but working as a statistician. With her upper class links she influenced the British government of the day, basing her reforms of healthcare upon facts. She is the source of great debate being both authoritarian and visionary. She was Florence Nightingale.