How Did Florence Nightingale Successful

Florence Nightingale was not only one woman with aspiration. She desired to be nurse, but in the end, she was more than just that. She suffered from Crimean fever during the war and afterwards of frequent fainting and chronic physical exhaustion She also remained bedridden for much of her life. Despite her own health conditions, Nightingale still managed to be successful in her quest of changing the standards for hospitals with sound judgment, calm and strong authority, and fixed determination. Nightingale had to have sound judgement to be successful. She was able to make sensible decisions about what she needed to do and what had to be changed immediately. She used her own knowledge about the human anatomy to decide that cleanliness was important. She also studied the history of hospitals and analyzed sanitary reports. “Not only were basic surgical and medical supplies unavailable, the hospital barracks were infested with rats and fleas, and the wards stank from underground sewage” (Bornstein 95). She recognized the problems and stopped the spread of disease and infection and significantly dropped the death rate in soldiers.
As a woman, it was difficult for her to have people listen to her and take her seriously. She had to gain the trust of the soldiers. She decided to take a firm stand and got to the bottom of things. For example, she needed to find out why the supplies were not arriving on time for medical care. She took actions into her own hands and visited the army purveyor, but with no success. Then she ended up taking over his job with money that she raised herself, and discovered that the supplies were being held up in Turkish customs. Later on, she built a warehouse for supplies and approved the construction of a new ward. With time, she proved that she was worthy of her position. She eventually gained the trust of people with her calm and collected