Based on her observations in the Crimea, Nightingale wrote Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army , an page report analyzing her experience and proposing reforms for other military hospitals operating under poor conditions. Nightingale remained at Scutari for a year and a half. She left in the summer of , once the Crimean conflict was resolved, and returned to her childhood home at Lea Hurst.
With the support of Queen Victoria, Nightingale helped create a Royal Commission into the health of the army. It employed leading statisticians of the day, William Farr and John Sutherland, to analyze army mortality data, and what they found was horrifying: 16, of the 18, deaths were from preventable diseases—not battle.
She became the first female member of the Royal Statistical Society and was named an honorary member of the American Statistical Association.
Nightingale decided to use the money to further her cause. In , she funded the establishment of St. Nightingale became a figure of public admiration. Young women aspired to be like her. Eager to follow her example, even women from the wealthy upper classes started enrolling at the training school. Thanks to Nightingale, nursing was no longer frowned upon by the upper classes; it had, in fact, come to be viewed as an honorable vocation. By the time she was 38 years old, she was homebound and bedridden, and would be so for the remainder of her life.
Residing in Mayfair, she remained an authority and advocate of health care reform, interviewing politicians and welcoming distinguished visitors from her bed. In , she published Notes on Hospitals , which focused on how to properly run civilian hospitals. Throughout the U. Civil War , she was frequently consulted about how to best manage field hospitals. Nightingale also served as an authority on public sanitation issues in India for both the military and civilians, although she had never been to India herself.
In , at the age of 88, she was conferred the merit of honor by King Edward. In May of , she received a congratulatory message from King George on her 90th birthday.
In August , Florence Nightingale fell ill, but seemed to recover and was reportedly in good spirits. A week later, on the evening of Friday, August 12, , she developed an array of troubling symptoms. She died unexpectedly at 2 p. Respecting her last wishes, her relatives turned down a national funeral. Florence Nightingale. The National Archives, UK. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
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Florence Mabel Kling had Dorothea Lynde Dix was an author, teacher and reformer. Charged during the William Nightingale was a wealthy banker and was able to provide his family with a very privileged life. They had servants and two lovely houses — a winter home in Hampshire and a summer home in Derbyshire. But William was keen for his daughters to learn, and gave them lessons in lots of different subjects, including science, history and maths.
Daily life was spent seeing to servants, entertaining guests, reading, sewing and attending social events. But Florence saw something very different for her future. When she was 16 years old, she believed she heard a voice from God calling for her to carry out important work to help those suffering. She wanted to be a nurse.
In , he gave in, and allowed Florence to study nursing at a Christian school for women in Germany. There, she learned important skills in caring for patients and the importance of hospital cleanliness.
Great for teachers, homeschoolers and parents alike! British troops went off to fight in the Crimea — an area in the south of Russia, now part of Ukraine. News soon reached home of soldiers dying from battle wounds, cold, hunger and sickness, with no real medical care or nurses to treat them. Help was needed fast, and the Minister for War — called Sidney Herbert — knew just the person… He asked Florence to lead a team of nurses to the Crimea!
When they arrived, the nurses found the Army hospital in Scutari the area where wounded soldiers were sent in a terrible state. It was overcrowded and filthy, with blocked drains, broken toilets and rats running everywhere.
Imagine the smell! Not surprisingly, disease spread quickly and most of the soldiers died from infection. Florence knew that the soldiers could only get well again if the hospital conditions improved.
With funds from back home, she bought better medical equipment and decent food, and paid for workmen to clear the drains. And together with her team, she cleaned the wards , set up a hospital kitchen and provided the wounded soldiers with quality care — bathing them, dressing their wounds and feeding them.
As a result of all the improvements, far fewer soldiers were dying from disease. Florence Nightingale truly cared for her suffering patients. After newspapers wrote about her work in the Crimea, people thought of her as a heroine. Queen Victoria wrote her a letter to say thank you for everything she had done.
Cool, eh? But Florence had no care for fame, and even though the war was over, there was still work to be done. She set about writing letters to important people telling them what was wrong with Army hospitals, and in September she met with Queen Victoria to discuss ways to improve military medical systems. Huge reform took place — the Army started to train doctors, hospitals became cleaner and soldiers were provided with better clothing, food and care.
Nightingale's personality is well documented. She rebelled against the idle, sheltered existence of her family her entire life. She achieved a leading position in a world dominated by men, driving and directing her male coworkers as hard as she did herself. She often complained that women were selfish, and she had no time for the growing women's rights movement. But she also developed an idea of spiritual relating to or affecting the spirit motherhood and saw herself as the mother of the men of the British army—"my children"—whom she had saved.
Florence Nightingale never really recovered from the physical strain of the Crimean War. After she rarely left her home and was confined to her bed much of the time. She died on August 13, , in London, England. Dossey, Barbara Montgomery. Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer.
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Hospital reform efforts back home Florence Nightingale left Scutari in the summer of , soon after the war ended. Later years Nightingale's personality is well documented.
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