Florence Nightingale “ Lady with the Lamp”

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Crimean War. She analysed the difficult conditions to help revolutionise

the service of nursing and the treatment of patients.

travelling in Florence, Italy. Both Florence and her sister were

named after the Italian cities in which they were born- her sister Parthenope was born in Naples and given the Greek name for its ancient city. At home in England, the Nightingales divided their time between two houses, Lea Hurst in Derbyshire for the summer and Embley in Hampshire for the winter. The two girls were educated by their father, and Florence, in particular, excelled academically. With regard to the marriage and social life for their daughters, the Nightingales held high expectations. However, Florence had other ideas, because as a teenager in 1837 she received a ‘‘divine calling’’ to do God’s work, which sparked her advocacy of social and health care causes and eventually led her to establish nursing as a distinct profession.

and the middle of the 19th has been described by

medical historian Fielding Garrison as the ‘‘dark age’’ of nursing. Nurses in those days were typically poor, unskilled and often associated with immoral behavior. The hospitals they served held equally low reputations as unclean, disorderly and infection breeding. They were often regarded merely as places to die. So it is not difficult to see why Florence Nightingale’s family, wealthy and respectable as they were, discouraged her from selected this ‘‘unsuitable’’ profession.

marriage and in 1851 trained as a nurse in Kaiserswerth,

Germany at Pastor Theodore Fliedner’s hospital and school for Lutheran deaconesses. Fliedner’s school was one of the earliest institutions for the proper training of nurses outside of the Catholic religious orders. In 1853 Nightingale went for additional training in Paris with the Sisters of Mercy. After her return to England, Florence took a position as superintendent for London’s Establishment of Gentlewomen during illness in 1853.

the Crimean War (1854-1856). Responding to unpopular newspaper reports of

the horrendous situation in the English war camp hospitals, Secretary of War Sidney Herbert, a personal friend of Nightingale, consented to let her organize and manage a group of female nurses to go to Turkey. On November 4, 1854, Nightingale and 38 nurses arrived in Scutari, the location of the British camp outside Constantinople. The doctors originally didn’t welcome the incoming female nurses, but as the number of patients escalated, their help was needed in the overcrowded, undersupplied, and unsanitary hospital.

and comfort to the patients. Nightingale was known for providing

the kind of personal care, like writing letters home for soldiers, that comforted them and improved their psychological health. Her group of nurses transformed the hospital into a healthy environment within six months, and as a result, the death rate of patients fell from 40 to 2 percent. In 1857, Florence returned home as a heroine. It was the soldiers in Crimea that initially named her the “Lady with the Lamp” because of the reassuring sight of her carrying around a lamp to check on the sick and wounded during the night, and the title remained with her.

next few years to the Royal Commission investigating health in

the British Army. It was her discussions with Queen Victoria on the conditions of the camp hospitals that sparked the commission’s formation. Also, Nightingale’s statistical data and analysis strongly influenced the commission’s findings, which resulted in great public health advances in the British Army.

is, and what it is not” was published. Based on

knowledge acquired at school in Kaiserswerth and while nursing the sick during the Crimean War, “Notes on nursing” provides a simple but practical discussion of good patient care, along with helpful hints. According to Florence Nightingale, hygiene, sanitation, fresh air, proper lighting, a good diet, warmth, quietness and attentiveness were necessary conditions for hospitals and were to be ensured by trained nurses. Taken for granted today, her commonsense advice helped transform hospitals from death houses to sanctuaries of care. This work quickly became a classic introduction to nursing, and has remained in publication to the present day.

for Florence Nightingale to continue her education of nurses in

England, and the Nightingale Training School at St. Thomas’ Hospital opened in 1860. The education of recruits involved a year of practical instruction in the wards, supplemented with courses of lecturing, and followed by two years of work experience in the hospital. After graduation, many of the students staffed British hospitals, and others spread the Nightingale education system to other countries.

for elevating the profession of nursing to an honorable status.

She also wrote about 200 books, pamphlets and reports on hospital, sanitation and other health-related issues, as well as contributing to the field of statistics. Throughout her life she provided advice on a variety of health care issues to associates all over the globe. Though ill and bedridden for much of her later life, Nightingale managed to continue her great work through correspondence.

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