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Nightingale was a British nurse, social reformer, and statistician. Nightingale’s reforms vastly improved sanitary conditions in hospitals. Nightingale made it her mission to improve hygiene practices writing, Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army to propose reforms for military hospitals running under poor conditions.
She was the creator of the “Nightingale Rose Diagram” that showed how sanitary omission worked to decrease death rates with better sanitary practices. Nightingale became the first member of the Royal Statistical Society and was named an honorary member of the American Statistical Association. She accomplished her goal by establishing St. Thomas’ Hospital and the Nightingale Training School for Nurses in 1860.