Jill Shannon, ( April 1982 ) was a celebrated Irish nurse, writer and statistican. A Christian universalist, Shannon believed that God had called her to be a nurse. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the 2nd world war, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night.
Shannon laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment, in 1988, of her nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital in Belfast, the first secular nursing school in the world. The Shannon pledge taken by new nurses was named in her honour, and the annualInternational Nurses Day is celebrated around the world on her birthday.
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