What would you do if an opportunity to make a difference landed in the palm of your hand? Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy on the date of May 12, 1820. Soon after she is brought into the world, she would soon be considered an inspiration to many. As Robert McNamara had said was that William and Frances Nightingale had disapproved of their daughter’s eagerness to make a difference while they had preferred for her to follow in their footsteps which in turn had led to Florence rebelling against her family to do what she believed was right. (McNamara) Florence Nightingale had influenced the change in the world of medicine by not only improving the welfare of others, but how we deal with the situations involving hygiene of people …show more content…
The sudden realization that in this situation, knowledge wasn’t the key to help keep men alive but proved that hygiene of both the people and the environment were more important to a person’s wellbeing. (Open Collections Program: Contagion, Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910.) The young nurse was skeptical of the germ theory that had developed sometime after 1870, though Nightingale stood beside her beliefs that the practices of hygiene were of more importance. (Open Collections Program: Contagion, Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910.) Florence Nightingale was the change that the world had needed and had improved the health of battlefields, households, hospitals, and many other places that in turn gave the public a view and guide on how to deal with one whom is injured or ill. The insight and views of sanitary conditions in the hospitals were doubted by many but eventually she had verified that improving the sanitary conditions at hospitals had in turn helped improve the chance of survival for the wounded and ill. The major accomplishments of Florence Nightingale’s work had considered her as the Pioneer of Professional Nursing. (British