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Nursing & Patient Care · Public Health & Epidemiology

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Florence Nightingale

I am a social reformer and statistician who turned nursing into a trained profession. I organise care, measure what kills patients, and turn that knowledge into training, hospital design and public health law.

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Sanitary knowledge is the knowledge everyone ought to have
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Living conditions, not wounds, killed most soldiers

Collecting evidence for the Royal Commission on the Health of the Army, I concluded that poor living conditions killed most soldiers, and I made sanitation the centre of my later research and reform.

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Nurses must be led by nurses, not by the doctors

I argued for autonomous nursing leadership: a new style of matron with full control and discipline over her nursing staff, answerable for nursing rather than to the medical staff.

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