Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy on May 12, 1820. Nightingale had passion of helping individuals who are going through health problems. However, her parents were unhappy and rejected her to pursue her dream to become a nurse. Since Nightingale was from wealthy family, her parents recognized that working, as nursing will affect their designation in the community. At that moment, nursing was unprofessional job title and those who work, as nurses did not have enough knowledge and initial training. Regardless of her parent’s refusal, Florence Nightingale followed her dream and completed her training in three-month. She worked at nurse home and begun training other women and advance well-being of the community. She became the founder of modern nursing. During Crimean war Nightingale she was an important and well-recognized person internationally. She traveled with thirty-eight nurses for Crimean war to assist and treat the wooden British army. Nightingale used document plan and statistic when assessing the condition of the army who were injured. During the service, her nickname became “the …show more content…
Therefore, she began reforming and implementing hospital regulations due to her vision of providing better hygiene in public health care. Many health cares lacked fresh water nutrition food for their patients. Therefore, she focused on improving prevention to eliminate the spreading of diseases or infections between patients and health providers. according to text book Nursing Now “Six months of the nurses cleaning and bandaging wounds, cooking, and cleaning the wards, the mortality rate dropped from 42 percent to 2 percent” 30. There is no doubt Florence Nightingale and her nurses were lower the amount of the injured patient throughout the Crimean war by utilizing a proper technique that they study in their training to promotes and support