When you walk into a hospital today, you see that everything is clean, sanitary, and your records are kept up to date. It is just something that we expect, as it is something that we have always had. We take for granted the health care that we are blessed with in Canada, and it would be hard to imagine life in these hospitals without the essential needs like cleanliness and sterilization, but during the 1800's, that's just the way things were-that is until Florence Nightingale came into the picture. Florence Nightingale was the founder of modern nursing. She helped to better the field of medicine, and is most recognized for her services at Scutari, during the Crimean War. Through her selfless, persistance, dedication, and ambition to
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