Florence nightingale

Share This Article Florence Nightingale, a British nurse, notably known for her incredible impact on the nursing profession, is remembered and celebrated for her great achievements year-round. Although Nightingale has done so much throughout her life, many people do not know that much about her. Here are ten things you should know about Florence Nightingale. 1. Her family did not want her to be a nurse When Florence was 16, she knew that nursing was her true calling. Her parents, however, were against it. It was expected that someone of Nightingale’s social stature would marry and raise a family, not take up a profession. Going against the wishes of her family, she refused to get married at the age of 17 and continued her nursing education at the Lutheran Hospital of Pastor Fliedner in Germany. 2. Florence had a natural skill for analyzing data Analyzing, classifying, and documenting data was a skill that naturally came to Florence. She was able to look at data, draw conclusions, and create a picture of the results in her mind. She also created the first pie charts called coxcombs while working with Dr. William Farr. Nightingale eventually became the first female of the Royal Statistical Society due to her pioneering work. 3. She loved to write Nightingale had a passion for writing, as she wrote more than 150 books and pamphlets. She published medical books, including ‘Notes on Hospital’ (1859) and ‘Notes on Nursing’ (1859), which laid the foundations for modern nursing pr...

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Often called “the Lady with the Lamp,” Florence Nightingale was a caring nurse and a leader. In addition to writing over 150 books, pamphlets and reports on health-related issues, she is also credited with creating one of the first versions of the pie chart. However, she is mostly known for making hospitals a cleaner and safer place to be. Florence Nightingale was born on May 12, 1820, in Florence, Italy. Although her parents were from England, she was born in Italy while they were traveling. Both Florence and her older sister Parthenope were named after the Italian cities where they were born. When they returned to England in 1821, the Nightingale family lived in two homes. They had a summer home in Derbyshire called Lea Hurst, and a winter home in Hampshire called Embley. Growing up in a wealthy family, Florence Nightingale was homeschooled by her father and expected to get married at a young age. However, when she was a teenager, Nightingale believed she received a “calling” from God to help the poor and the sick. Even though it was not a respected profession at the time, Nightingale told her parents that she wanted to become a nurse. Her parents did not approve of her decision and wanted her to get married and raise a family. Nightingale still wanted to be a nurse and refused marriage. Eventually, her father allowed her to go to Germany for three months to study at Pastor Theodore Fliedner’s hospital and school for Lutheran Deaconesses. After finishing her program in G...

Selected Florence Nightingale Quotations • Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore. • Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done? • Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have 'no time in the day to themselves.' [1852] • And so is the world put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts (which were meant, not for selfish gratification, but for the improvement of that world) to conventionality. [1852] • It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. [1859] • I did not think of going to give myself a position, but for the sake of common humanity. [about her • Nursing is become a profession. Trained Nursing no longer an object but a fact. But oh, if home Nursing could become an everyday fact here in this big city of London.... [1900] • I can stand out the war with any man. • I stand at the altar of the murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause. [1856] • Never dispute with anybody who wish...

On November 4, 1854 Nightingale led a band of 38 nurses into the Scutari Barrack Hospital in Turkey, and into the history books. She’d been called to duty in response to public outcry over the deplorable care being given British casualties of the Crimean War. At Scutari, thousands of sick and wounded soldiers were packed into barren corridors, lying on blood-soaked straw mats. Most of them were still in clothes they’d worn on the battlefield, crawling with lice and vermin. One eyewitness called it “a vast field of suffering and misery.” Infection was rampant and rats ran wild. There was no ventilation or fresh water, the food was inedible, and there were virtually no drugs or medical supplies. Amputations were performed without anesthesia in full view of other patients, and most amputees quickly succumbed to gangrene. The orderlies were often drunk, and refused to empty chamber pots or go near the sickest patients. There was no money for even the most basic essentials. The chief medical officer made it clear that Nightingale was not welcome, and did everything he could to undermine her authority. And we think wehave a healthcare crisis! Nightingale’s Legacy In a 2-year period in the depths of this healthcare crisis Florence Nightingale established nursing as a respected profession and invented the hospital as we know it today. She developed the first modern hospital nursing, pharmacy, laundry, and nutrition services. Her meticulous recordkeeping was the forerunner of today...

DRAFT DIAGRAM Surviving drafts of Nightingale's diagrams give a rare peek into her team's creative process. Drawn by government clerks, these drafts show how the team refined original ideas to improve information design. They also reveal that the mechanical precision of the final lithographs was not present in the original references. This early sketch gives a preview of one of Nightingale's most famous graphics ( below), which reveals how army deaths from preventable diseases ( blue) outnumbered hospital deaths from wounds ( red). Credit: British Library Imaging Services In the summer of 1856 Florence Nightingale sailed home from war furious. As the nursing administrator of a sprawling British Army hospital network, she had witnessed thousands of sick soldiers endure agony in filthy wards. An entire fighting force had been effectively lost to disease and infection. The “horrors of war,” Nightingale realized, were inflicted by more than enemy bullets. Nightingale had earned the moniker “Lady with the Lamp” by making night rounds on patients, illuminated by a paper lantern. She was serving in the Crimean War, where Britain fought alongside France against the Russian invasion of the Ottoman Empire. The causes of the soldiers' torment were numerous: incompetent officers, meager supplies, inadequate shelters, overcrowded hospitals and cruel medical practices. Nightingale arrived back in London determined to prevent similar suffering from happening again. It would be an uphill ...