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6 PERSONALITY

Florence Nightingale

We have often visited hospitals and seen nurses
taking care of the sick people. The nurses work

very hard looking after the patients. Their
responsibility is to provide medicine, give care
and assistance to the sick people. In the earlier
years, this profession was carried out by men and
it wasn’t considered to be a respected job. In these

circumstances Florence Nightingale took up this
profession. She showed to the world that women
could equally take care of the sick people and help Florence Nightingale

them recover. Her step was a big example for the (1820 AD - 1910 AD)
people all around.

Florence was born on 20 May, 1820 AD in Italy. Her parents wanted her to get
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married to a rich gentleman and settle down but she refused. She had different

plans for herself. She wanted to take care of the sick people and help them. She
was a very caring girl from her childhood. She used to take care of her dolls
as if they were real people. She even helped the sick and needy people in her
village. At the age of 17, she

decided to take up nursing Florence Nightingale at Scutari
as her profession. She felt
that it was her calling.
She went to Kaiserswerth,

Germany to be trained
in the field of nursing.
During the Crimean war in
1854 AD, she along with A scene from “A Pageant of Nursing” to be presented by Dundee nurse in the Gaumont

her team of 38 nurses went on Sunday–Florence Nightingale with the wounded at Scutari. The pageant is in aid of
the Royal College of Nursing education appeal.

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