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Introduction: Using Data to Drive Change and Improvement: The Legacy of Florence Nightingale

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This introduction summarizes the legacy of Florence Nightingale’s important work as a leader of nursing on modern day nursing, evidence-based practice, and health care administration. The relevance of Florence Nightingale’s teachings to the care of children and adults with pediatric heart disease is highlighted.

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  1. World Health Organization. World health statistics 2013: a wealth of information on global public health. Geneva: WHO Press; 2013. Available at: http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/82058/1/WHO_HIS_HSI_13.1_eng.pdf?ua=1&ua=1. Accessed 14 June 2014.

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  1. Department of Herma Heart Center, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, 9000 Wisconsin Avenue, 1997, MS B550A, Milwaukee, WI, 53201, USA

    Kathleen Mussatto PhD, RN

  2. Department of Herma Heart Center, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, 9000 W. Wisconsin Ave., 1997, MS 715, Milwaukee, WI, 53201, USA

    Maryanne Kessel RN, MBA

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Correspondence to Kathleen Mussatto PhD, RN .

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  1. School of Medicine,, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Paul R. Barach

  2. Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Heart Institute, All Children’s Hospital and Florida Hospital for Children, Johns Hopkins University, St. Petersburg, Tampa, Orlando, FL, USA,, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Jeffery P. Jacobs

  3. Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA

    Steven E. Lipshultz

  4. The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Peter C. Laussen

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Mussatto, K., Kessel, M. (2015). Introduction: Using Data to Drive Change and Improvement: The Legacy of Florence Nightingale. In: Barach, P., Jacobs, J., Lipshultz, S., Laussen, P. (eds) Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Care. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6587-3_3

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