Florence Nightingale was born on May 12, 1820, in Florence, Italy to Frances Nightingale and William Shore Nightingale. She was the younger of two children. Her family belonged to elite social circles.

As a child, Florence was curious and smart, and she loved learning and enjoyed math and science. She was known to have empathy for others. Since she was young she felt drawn to help the sick which eventually led her to become a nurse.

Florence is known as the founder of nursing. She was able to save many lives by improving the conditions of a British hospital during the Crimean war. Florence was good with statistics. She was able to demonstrate to people that keeping yourself and your surroundings clean could improve health. She started a training school for nurses in London which helped turn nursing into a profession.

She wrote books and reports about hygiene for better living conditions and care for people. Her books were made to spread awareness about clean hospitals. She wanted other hospitals to follow what she did. She wanted to save lives by helping other hospitals with their hygiene to ensure that people are being treated with sanitary tools. Her books had the information needed to make a difference in hospital settings.

She believed that you had to stay clean in order to prevent illness and in order to have good health. The reason why she thought that hygiene was important was because during the war she found out that the soldiers were dying due to infections that were caused by dirty conditions rather than the injury itself.

She wanted to make a change so she made sure people were more conscious of cleaning  the hospitals to ensure that her patients had clean bedding as well as proper nutrition. Her focus on hygiene made a huge difference in death rates. Proving that her statistics about dirty conditions were right.