The Lady with the Lamp

Florence Nightingale died this day in 1910. A pioneer, visionary and iconoclast, Florence set the gold medal standard in humanitarianism and philanthropy.

She was known as The Lady with the Lamp, for the times during the Crimean war when she would make rounds late at night checking in on every poor injured soldier in the hospital, with the flickering light of a lamp held in her hands.

She wholly reinvented the concept of patient care establishing the foundations of modern nursing. In the first six months of her first tenure at the war hospital in Istanbul, the mortality rate fell from 42% to 2%. WOW! She saved hundreds if not thousands of lives with her new standard of hygiene.

None of this even scratches the surface of her fascinating and remarkable life achievements. Next year, the centennial of her death has been deemed by the U.N General Assembly the International Year of the Nurse. The Omni Report will write extensively about her at that time.

For now, we honor ALL THE NURSES THAT MAKE SUCH A HUGE DIFFERENCE IN OUR LIVES AND IN THE WORLD. THANK YOU!