Nursing has come a long way since the year 1840. Uneducated and unskilled females who were from a poor background typically took care of the injured and sick and usually had a bottle of whisky to cure all problems. Florence Nightingale, who was known as the founder of modern nursing, modernized the art of nursing by embracing the ancient call of of comforting the afflicted by emphasizing cleaner hospitals and better nutrition, while mandating the training for future nurses.
Ancient call of nursing. The nurses were typically women from poor families. Since they were from poor families they were not trained. Back then whiskey was considered medicine to kill the pain. Before hospitals were actually built they nursed on the battlefields and military
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She wanted to become a good nurse and have better hospitals. She pushed for better hospitals, she pushed for better training for nurses, and she pushed for better schools and books for the nurses to learn. Training of future nurses. Women were mostly the ones that got trained because they weren 't fighting in the wars. Experienced nurses trained the new nurses at military hospitals. With the help of the government,schools were beginning to develop and be funded. Florence Nightingale changed all of this. She began her journey as a nurse during the Crimean War. She had a friend who was the secretary of War in England who asked her to take a bunch of nurses to Turkey to help in the hospitals during this war. The hospitals under her leadership became cleaner, she provided psychological care by having the nurse write letters to the families of the injured soldiers. She reduced the death rate from 40 percent to 2 percent. Florence proved she could help the hospitals get and train the nurses better.
Florence influenced modern nursing. Nursing had advance quickly after WWII. The government gave money to health care industry. They wanted to help improve the health care system. The nurses started to obtain degrees in nursing at