Florence Nightingale, A Nurse Who Cared

Florence Nightingale spent most of her life trying to boost hospital care.
In the process, she created the modern profession of nursing.
She did it despite spending so many years as an invalid.
"The scope of that work, relentlessly pursued, with manifold projects always being tackled simultaneously, is one of the most remarkable aspects ... of Florence Nightingale's life, made all the more extraordinary by the fact that such a workload would have defeated most able-bodied individuals, let alone ... someone suffering from a chronic and debilitating illness," Mark Bostridge wrote in the most recent biography, "Florence Nightingale."
At 16, Nightingale felt inspired to devote her life to helping humanity.
"God called me in the morning and asked me would I do good for him