Florence Nightingale's Nursing Career

Florence Nightingale names after the city she was born was born May 12, 1820 in Florence, Italy and died August 13, 1910 in United Kingdom at the age of 90 years. Florence Nightingale was the youngest of two children who came from the upper high social class. Nightingale family belonged to the upper high social class because her father Mr. William Shore Nightingale was a wealth landowner and also inherited two estates who was marred to Ms. France Nightingale mother of Florence Nightingale. Florence Nightingale was known for improving the unsanitary conditions at a British base hospital reducing the death count by two-thirds during the Crimean War. Also, she’s the reason that the nursing career exists in now society and its looked up on. In

Also, as mention in the article “Florence Nightingale | Facts Summary Information” by Daborah Pulliam published in 2014 in the British Heritage Travel website it mentions that in “1854 Nightingale was named Superintendent of Nurses at the Institution for the Care of Sick Gentlewomen in Distressed Circumstances in London” (Pulliam). She only took that position with the conditions that the hospital would take patients from all kind of religions not only from the Church of England and also, she did now get payed for this job and was responsible for all her own expenses. Nightingale main high light in nursing was when the Crimean War

As mention in the article “Florence Nightingale Biography” published in The Biography.com website in 2018 Nightingale got hundreds of scrub brushes and asked the least ill patients to scrub the inside of the hospital from floor to ceiling…in addition to hugely improving the sanitary conditions of the hospital, Nightingale established a kitchen with her own money where food for patients with special dietary requirements was prepared. She also established a laundry so that patients would have clean close as well as a classroom and library for intellectual stimulation and entertainment (Biography.com). At night Nightingale would walk around doing her nightly checks on her patient making sure they were okay that is where she got her other two nick names “The lady with the lamp” and “the angle of the Crimea”. With the changes she did to the military hospital Nightingale reduced the mortality rate by two-thirds. After the Crimean War was over and the left back to Lea Hurst. During the war Nightingale obtained Crimean Fever she could have got it from probably drinking contaminated milk. The Crimean Fever impacted all of her rest of her life, but she continued to