Florence Nightingale has significantly influenced modern medicine in the field of nursing. Famous for her role as founder of modern nursing and Hospital Epidemiology Florence Nightingale has also made considerable contribution to health statistics. Despite having made considerable contribution to health statistics she is more famous for her role in modern nursing. (March2009 Vol.20-Issue 2: p 311)Born 12 May 1820 while her parents were in Florence Italy and subsequently named after the city Florence Nightingale believed she had a calling. She grew to be passionate about nursing despite her parent’s belief that nursing was not the right profession for a lady. Reluctantly after hesitation her parents allowed her to go to a nursing school Kaisewerth in Germany where she studied for a quarter of a year. After her training the journey began that saw Florence Nightingale become a highly influential person in modern medicine and leaving a huge foot print in the world of Nursing. She died on 13th August 1910 but her legacy lives on.
Florence Nightingale managed to establish nursing as a respectable and reputable profession. When the Crimea war started, through the Minister of war Sidney Herbert who was known to her, sent her with a team of 38 women to manage the barrack Hospital in Scutari. There she observed that the sanitary conditions among other things were very bad. Through her effort and hard work they managed to reduce the case fatality from 32% to 2% which is a significant drop. Four years after returning to England she started the Nightingale Training School for nurses at St Thomas Hospital in London. Nurses were sent to hospitals all over Britain after having gained knowledge from the school taking ideas to the hospitals acqui...
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...edicine and health statistics today giving the nursing profession a respectable name. Despite the fact that she was not the first nurse but it’s only after her entrance in the nursing profession that nursing gained a respectable name signifying her level of influence and significance. In statics her work as been adopted by others in their work. This shows how influential she was both in statics and the nursing field.
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