Florence Nightingale: A Modern Day Hero

History is an amazing part of our world. Without it we wouldn’t be where we are today or know everything we know. The medical field has always been a huge part of our everyday lives. Whether it be just going to get a regular check-up, or unfortunately going through a traumatic experience that required immediate medical attention. With history we are able to examine many different types of everyday heroes, who are just like you and me, who went above and beyond the call of duty to excel. Florence Nightingale was considered an everyday hero in the 1800’s when she went to the Crimean War to care for wounded soldier’s day in and day out. Florence Nightingale was born in Italy in year 1820. Her parents were very upper class in England and had a lot of money so she never had to go to college. She could of just lived off the money and married marry someone else that who also had money, but she was an ordinary woman and that was not what she wanted to do with her life. At a young age she was very involved in helping the poor and ill in the village nearby. Even though her parents and friends were very strongly against her becoming a nurse; she was very …show more content…
At the age of 38 Florence was put on bedrest from contact with Crimean fever and she lived in Mayfair. But Once again, that didn 't stop her because she was able to do it all from her bed. She was still an advocate of health care reform. She has a museum of her in at the original site of the first school she started. A lot of what she started is still a huge part of the nursing world today. She was an amazing person and nurse, she put everything into what she did and was the best nurse to her patients. Florence Nightingale passed away in on August 13,1910 at the age of 90, in London where she was laid to rest in her family plot. She was a true everyday hero who is a huge part of history and everyone can admire everything she did as a person and especially as a