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Florence Nightingale Research Paper

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Florence Nightingale brought tremendous change to the world of nursing. She was truly a pioneer, paving the way for many to follow, with her ground breaking new outlook on nursing care. Florence was born in 1820 to a well off British family. She was said to be a very intelligent child, so her father gave her a thorough education. An extended education, at that time, was mostly reserved for men. Florence received her education from her father and an assortment of private tutors. She received lessons in modern languages, literature and higher mathematics. She showed a particularly strong interest in mathematics which later in her life would prove quite helpful. After receiving her education, she had become discontent with her home life, and …show more content…

Herbert happened to be family friends of the Nightingale’s. So knowing of Florence’s ambition to help people Herbert tasked Nightingale with going to Scutari to treat the injured coming back from the war. She was independently funded by Herbert. She took off to Scutari with a group of nurses. Scutari was previously a Turkish army barracks. The Turks had given it to the British to use as a hospital in order to accommodate a seemingly endless supply of sick and wounded. The barracks that was originally designed to protect solders from opposing armies, offered little in the way of protection when it came to the much smaller disease causing invaders that were rampant inside the walls of this poorly equipped facility. The facility contributed, in many cases, to the deaths of soldiers due to the sanitary limitations, and overcrowding. Close to forty-three percent of the patients inside of Scutari’s walls died. Things like wound sepsis, cholera, dysentery and Crimea fever claimed many lives. This great loss of life would later be attributed to the lack of sanitation. Sanitation did eventually improve, due to work by Florence and the British government, but not before claiming a great many

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