Nightingale was taught education by her father. As Florence got older, she started to help the homeless and sick people in her village. She realized at a young age that God had a calling for her and that it was her dream to become a nurse. Once, she told her parents that her dream was to be a nurse they refused for her to go in that career. They did not want her to be a nurse because the hospitals were dangerous. After, telling her parents her plan, they sent her on a vacation with family friends to help her forget what she wanted. When she was on vacation in Egypt, Nightingale met two sisters from St. Vincent de Paul that give her an insight of their convent. Once Nightingale came back from vacation, she convinced her parents to let her start going to school for nursing. From that moment on Florence Nightingale had made a change in her lifetime.
A few years in her nursing career, Florence was asked to help out in the hospital during the Crimean War to take care of the wounded soldiers. When Florence got to the hospital the first thing she noticed was how dirty it was and how poor the soldiers were being taken care of. When she got there, the soldiers were dying more by diseases from the hospitals than wounds. Nightingale wanted to change that so she started a sanitary reform, The reform then dropped the death rate from 42% to