Florence Nightingale Nurse or mathematician?

Florence Nightingale

• Nurse or mathematician?

Florence Nightingale

Life History

• a) Born on May 12, 1820, Florence, Italy

• b) Raised in Derbyshire, England

• c) Felt called by God to serve Him on February 7, 1837

• d) Never married; marriage would destroy the chance of her serving God's call

• e) Died in London on August 13, 1910

Education

• Home schooled by her father.

• Trained in nursing at the Institute of Saint Vincent de Paul in Alexandria, Egypt.

• Studied at the Institute for Protestant Deaconesses at Kaiserswerth, Germany.

Honors

• a) Became first woman to receive the British Order of Merit b) Crimean Monument in Waterloo Place, London was erected in her honor

• c) King Edward VII bestows the Order of Merit; it is the first time that the Order is given to a woman d) Became a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society

• e) Honorary member of the American Statistical Association

QUOTES of Florence Nightingale

• “To be a good nurse one must be a good woman, or one is truly nothing but a tinkling bell”

• “….Till a married woman can be a possession of her own property there can be no love or justice.”

• “You can arrest in some degree the course of the knave, but with the fool you don’t know where you will find him next.”

• “There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.”

• “Moses was the greater man; for whereas Plato only formed a school, which formed the world, Moses went straight to work upon the world.”

Nursing Contributions

• Appointed resident lady superintendent of An Establishment for Gentlewomen During Illness

• In 1854 assembled party of 38 nurses to serve in Crimean War

• Founded the Nightingale School and Home for Nurses at Saint Thomas’ Hospital in London

• Wrote Notes on Nursing, the first textbook for nurses

Mathematical Contribution

• Developed a Model Hospital Statistical Form for hospitals to collect and generate consistent data and statistics

• Published statistical graph in 1859 which showed the losses of the British army in the Crimean war

• Used data to persuade the Government to improve army hygiene

• Created spectacular graphics designed to show how improvements in hygiene could save many lives

• First to create a line chart which showed death rates of soldiers in peacetime

• Credited with inventing the pie chart

SOURCES CITED

• http://www.scottlan.edu, March 20, 1999 http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk, March 20, 1999

• http://www.dnai.com, March 20, 1999

• http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk, March 20, 1999

• http://www.geocities.com, March 21, 1999

• http://encarta.msn.com, March 21, 1999