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Chlorinated water preparation during the Ebola crisis, Sierra Leone 2015

The origins of modern defence nursing can be traced back to Florence Nightingale’s care for wounded and injured soldiers in the Crimean War (1853-1856). The establishment of military hospitals and procedures for care on the battlefield during WWI and WWII were to be major influences on the development of formal defence nursing becoming a career within the profession....
Image courtesy UK Ministry of Defence

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