Florence Nightingale Research Paper

I have chosen to write about Florence Nightingale because she has changed the world’s perspective in the world of nursing. She was named after the city she was born which was in Florence, Italy. She was born on May 12, 1820 in a wealthy middle-class family. Her mother, in particular, was against her becoming a nurse since it was not a very respectable occupation and most that became nurses came from a lower social status. Despite her family who disagrees with her, being a strong-willed woman that she is, she was determined to pursue her ambitions and hopes of improving the ways that the hospital is treating the patients by caring for their basic needs. She improved the hospital sanitary conditions and helped improve health condition

They bathed the soldiers, wash their linen and fed them. Finally, she established a separate kitchen with her own money to prepare and provide the soldiers with better and digestible food. She made countless rounds around the hospital tending to many different soldiers at night with a lamp which earned her the name "The Lady with the Lamp" or simply "The Angel of the Crimea". Consequently, she decreased the mortality rate decreased by 2%. As she progressed through her career after the war, she established the Nightingale Training School at St. Thomas’s Hospital in London in 1860, the first official nursing school in England. A public meeting was held in London to formally recognize her work which resulted in the creation of the Nightingale Fund. She then used this fund after the war to establish the nursing school. As a result, Nightingale inspired many young minds who are eager to follow her example and she became a figure for public admiration. Many poems, songs and plays were written and dedicated in her honour. Linda Richards, whom Nightingale previously mentored, became the first trained nurse and was also inspired to teach and educate younger females to become nurses. She also created the Polar Area Diagram to indicate the mortality figures during the Crimean War. In the polar-area diagram,

The Crimean Fever, now known as Brucellosis, is a bacterial disease that can infect humans but usually infects livestock. The symptoms comprise of recurring fever, sweating, chills, loss of appetite, fatigue, insomnia and even mental depression. It is caused by a great numbers of distinct parasitic bacteria of the genus Brucella. B. abortis found in cattle and can cause cattle to abort their fetuses. It is more deadly when found in humans which causes severe illness in humans. She kept complaining about these problems which kept her confined in her room for nearly three decades. Although she was isolated in her room for nearly 30 decades she managed to establish a school, write 200 reports as well as publishing the first nursing textbook. Even though she was bedridden for so many years, the campaigned tirelessly to improve health conditions. She passed away on 13 August 1910 aged 90 at her home in South Street Park, London. Florence had wanted her funeral to be modest and quiet, so to respecting her wishes, her family declined a national funeral. She was buried near her family grave at St. Margaret, Church, East Wellow, in Hampshire,