How Did Florence Nightingale Contribute To Education
Florence Nightingale was the founder of modern nursing, a statistician, and a social reformer. She was mostly famous for caring for soldiers during the Crimean War. She is now still known as the most famous nurse in the world because of her hard work in establishing nursing education. Nightingale was born on the 12th of May 1820 in Florence, Italy. She grew up in a wealthy family with her father, William, her mother, Frances, and her older sister Frances Parthenope. William was a big influence in Florence’s education. Through him, she learned the basics of all subjects from mathematics to philosophy to literature. She also learned many languages such as English, French, German, and Italian in which she was very fluent in. Of all the teachings
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She began impressing many of her co-workers and advancing to better jobs. In October of 1853, the Crimean War began. Thousand of British soldier were dying and suffering. “By 1854, no fewer than 18,000 soldiers had been admitted into military hospitals” (Florence Nightingale Biography). During this time, Nightingale received a letter asking for her help. Soldiers needed aid and corps of nurses needed to be organized. So, she gathered 36 nurses and sailed off to a British hospital base in Constantinople. Although the hospital base was in horrid condition she went straight to work. Walking through dark hallways infested with rodents and garbage, she ordered workers to clean the whole hospital while she worked on every patient she can using the only light source she can find, a lamp. From then on, she was know as “the Lady with the Lamp.” Her work was known for “[reducing] the hospital’s death rate by two-thirds” (History: Florence Nightingale). By using her mathematical skills she was able to calculated the mortality rate in the hospital which proved that sanitary methods would decrease the number of deaths. In an article by J.J O’Conner and E.F Robertson, the claim that Nightingale lowered the mortality rate from 60% to 42.7% by 1855. This article also mentions that later Nightingale used this information to create her Polar Area Diagram or “coxcombs”. These graphs were used to represent the mortality rate during the Crimean
She began impressing many of her co-workers and advancing to better jobs. In October of 1853, the Crimean War began. Thousand of British soldier were dying and suffering. “By 1854, no fewer than 18,000 soldiers had been admitted into military hospitals” (Florence Nightingale Biography). During this time, Nightingale received a letter asking for her help. Soldiers needed aid and corps of nurses needed to be organized. So, she gathered 36 nurses and sailed off to a British hospital base in Constantinople. Although the hospital base was in horrid condition she went straight to work. Walking through dark hallways infested with rodents and garbage, she ordered workers to clean the whole hospital while she worked on every patient she can using the only light source she can find, a lamp. From then on, she was know as “the Lady with the Lamp.” Her work was known for “[reducing] the hospital’s death rate by two-thirds” (History: Florence Nightingale). By using her mathematical skills she was able to calculated the mortality rate in the hospital which proved that sanitary methods would decrease the number of deaths. In an article by J.J O’Conner and E.F Robertson, the claim that Nightingale lowered the mortality rate from 60% to 42.7% by 1855. This article also mentions that later Nightingale used this information to create her Polar Area Diagram or “coxcombs”. These graphs were used to represent the mortality rate during the Crimean