Florence Nightingale was a nurse that helped create modern and more sanitary nursing (World Biography). She was inspired by God to serve people. Her work made hospitals cleaner and helped wounded soldiers in the Crimean War. She then started a nursing school. Florence Nightingale was born on May 12, 1820 in Florence, Italy (biography). She died when she was 90 years old on August 13, 1910 in London, UK (biography). She got sick and then recovered, but then a week later, she felt sick again and died a day later in her house (biography). She was buried in St. Margaret’s Church, East Wellow, Hampshire in her family plot (Selanders). Her family was very wealthy (biography). They owned two estates (biography). One was in Embly, Hampshire and the other was in Lea Hurst, Derbyshire (biography). She had one older sister named Frances Parthenope (biography). Her family made her study math, German, French, and Italian (biography). When Florence Nightingale was 30 years old (biography), she went to the Institution of Protestant Deaconesses at Kaiserwerth in Germany to study nursing (Selanders). Her family did not approve of …show more content…
There was not anyone who told her to do that (Selanders). She created the idea that people where dying in hospitals mostly because of sanitation problems (Selanders). Nobody knew that hygiene was important for hospitals. They thought they could use dirt floors and not clean their tools. As a result, many people died in hospitals from dirty conditions. Today, we have even cleaner conditions in our hospitals than Florence Nightingale did. Every patient gets their own space and their own tools. The doctors sanitize the tools after every use and have many supplies stored in the hospitals so they won’t run out. Many of the tools like syringes are disposable or metal so they can be cleaned properly. She helped create the idea of clean hospitals and that’s why our hospitals are so clean