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How Florence Nightingale shaped the way modern nurses tackle coronavirus

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Historians have praised Florence Nightingale on the 200th anniversary of her birth, and said her legacy has "never been more relevant" amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Her key nursing values - which focused on maintaining good hygiene, regularly washing hands and carrying out evidence-based practices - have been widely echoed over the past months.

Nightingale was born on 12 May 1820 which is also marked as International Nurses Day. She developed these habits during the Crimean War, where along with a small troupe of nurses, she tended soldiers' wounds and worked to improve hospital conditions.

Her data-based work also helped shape modern nursing - founding the nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital in London, developing palliative care and

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