How Did Florence Nightingale Contribute To Nursing

Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale was and is a very inspirational woman to many. She was born and named after Florence, Italy on May 12, 1980. She is known for many things, but a few things she is known for is her sanitary standards in hospitals, and being a great nurse. Florence Nightingale was one of the two children from William Nightingale and Frances Nightingale. Helping people and becoming a nurse was Miss Nightingale’s dream from the age of sixteen. While she was younger she was philanthropist to the poor people living in villages around her; this is how she discovered her calling was to be a nursing. According to her parents her destiny was not to become an aspiring, well known nurse. They wanted her to “Marry a man of means—not

After becoming superintendent her first big success was the hospital in Crimea. She was called there and asked to bring a team of nurses with her to help the soldiers who were dying due to infections from wounds. There was also an outbreak of diseases such as Cholera and Typhoid. The reason for the outbreak was due to lack of sanitation in living areas around the hospital, they were considered “inhumane (Biography.com).” Florence Nightingale herself almost fell sick, and after this experience she was said to be very distressed. When she arrived there were patients sleeping on the floor with roaches scurrying around them, and contaminated water because the building itself sat in the water. The first thing she worked on once she seen the hospital in Crimea was to disinfect and clean the area. She ordered the nurses and asked some of the patients who weren't in terrible condition to help her scrub the hospital from top to bottom. Soon after the hospital was clean she attended to her patients and became “The Lady With the Lamp (Biography.com)”, because she did her night rounds with a