Summary about Florence Nightingale

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Florence Nightingale was born in 1820 in Florence, Italy. She grow up in Florence, and when she was twelve years old, she decided to do something useful with her life. And she enjoyed to visit sick people at the hospital.

She wanted to be a nurse. But her parents did´nt want her to be that, because here parents did´nt want her to work a lot. But she did what she wanted to do anyway, whatever what here parents said.

She moved to Germany to learn about nursing. She helped during operations and searched after sick people. She loved to be a nurse.

She went to Crimea with 38 other nurses. And Florence made a military hospital more safer and cleaner there. When it was a war.

When the war was over, she wrote a book. And it was about how to make hospitals better. Many people asked her for advice about how to make a good hospital.

When she was 90 years old, she died in London, England. It stands “F.N. Born 1820. Died 1910” on her gravestone.