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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Florence Nightingale (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician.
Inspired by what she took as a call from God in February 1837 while at Embley Park, Florence announced her decision to enter nursing in 1844.
Florence Nightingale's most famous contribution came during the Crimean War, which became her central focus when reports began to filter back to Britain about the horrific conditions for the wounded. On 21 October 1854, she and a staff of 38 women volunteer nurses, trained by Nightingale and including her aunt Mai Smith, were sent (under the authorisation of Sidney Herbert) to the Ottoman Empire, about 295 nautical miles (546 km; 339 mi) across the Black Sea from Balaklava in the Crimea, where the main British camp was based.
Nightingale arrived early in November 1854 at Selimiye Barracks in Scutari (modern-day ?sk?dar in Istanbul). She and her nurses found wounded soldiers being badly cared for by overworked medical staff in the face of official indifference. Medicines were in short supply, hygiene was being neglected, and mass infections were common, many of them fatal. There was no equipment to process food for the patients.
At the beginning of the 20th century, it was asserted that Nightingale reduced the death rate from 42% to 2% either by making improvements in hygiene herself or by calling for the Sanitary Commission.
During the Crimean war, Florence Nightingale gained the nickname "The Lady with the Lamp", deriving from a phrase in a report in The Times after her habit of making rounds at night. An Anglican, Nightingale believed that God had called her to be a nurse.
Nightingale laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment, in 1860, of her nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital in London, the first secular nursing school in the world, now part of King's College London. The Nightingale Pledge taken by new nurses was named in her honour, and the annual International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world on her birthday.

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In memory of the Crimean War British Royal Mint in 2004 released souvenir coins, dedicated to three battles of the war: The battle of Alma. September 20, 1854, The battle of Inkerman. November 5, 1854 and The battle of Balaclava. October 13, 1854.

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Denomination: 2 Рounds Year: 2010 Material: Bimetal Description: Jubilee coin '100th Anniversary of the death of Florence Nightingale'. Obverse: In the center – portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, semicircular inscriptions: above – ELIZABETH•II•DEI•GRA• REG•FID•DEF, beneath – year of issue. Under portrait – monogram of obverse designer – IRB. Reverse: In the center – image of an outstretched hand, with a second and third hand as if taking a pulse, surrounded by the inscription 1820 – FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE – 1910. Beneath – face value: TWO POUNDS. Bimetal. Outer – Nickel-Brass (76% copper, 4% nickel, 20% zinc), inner – Cupro-Nickel (75% copper, 25% nickel). Diameter – 28.40 mm. Weight – 12.00 g. Thickness – 2.5 mm. Edge – milled, inscription: 150 YEARS OF NURSING. Designers: Ian Rank-Broadley (obverse), Gordon Summers (reverse). Country or town: Great Britain

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