Florence Nightingale
Has anyone really thought about the importance of nurses in our society? We, the women of compassionate spirituality, hold people’s lives in our hands. My work is exhausting and inevitably burdensome, but my Lord gives me the strength and courage to lovingly reach out to anyone in need. He guides me in all I do and gives me divine inspiration to live each day for mankind. I was born and baptized in the Church of England in 1820. I always had an unbiased view on religion, but I felt my call from God at age 16 as an inward tug of mystical experience. My manifested love of nature and tendency to care for the suffering made me feel spiritually called to model the greatness and generosity of God in service to the sick. My father felt nursing was not a suitable profession for a well-educated woman and my mother wanted me to marry an esteemed gentleman. I persevered through these expectations and went on a tour of Europe and Egypt in 1849, and this gave me the chance to study the different hospital systems. I began my training at the Institute of St Vincent de Paul hospital and continued my training in five different hospitals, including the Institute of Protestant Deaconesses. There were times when I was persecuted for my r
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