By Bob Blalock
An Englishwoman born 200 years ago today helped shape current efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and to save the lives of those with the virus and nurse them back to health.
Named Florence after the Italian city in which she was born, she rejected her wealthy parents’ wishes and decided to become a nurse – at a time when nurses typically were poor and unskilled and the hospitals they worked in were unsanitary and often viewed as death houses.
Born on May 12, 1820, Florence Nightingale became the founder of modern nursing and forever changed the profession by bringing commonsense, life-saving care to patients that continue to this day.
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