linens and fed them more substatial food. Basically she was an RN at that time. Florence then traveled to Balaclava in May 1855. Her testimony before a commission on the sanitary conditions of the army. Nightingale Training School was established. She also advised the army sanitary conditions in India. She helped establish numerous nursing organizations.
Several examples clearly reflect an evidence-based framework, ranging from Nightingale's first work after her return as a heroine from the Crimean War in 1856, to a late attempt to influence social policy with a proposal for a chair in “social physics” at Oxford University in 1891. These examples will be described briefly. Nightingale found another opportunity during the 1860 international statistical congress. One of the most important contributions was to address the institution of professional nursing care. She explained that the purpose of the statistics was to compare mortality rates associated with care from trained and untrained nurses of similar cases. There had been random assignments of similar cases in Liverpool. The more severe the case might have been assigned to the words with trained nurse. Nightingale was concerned with their lack of comparability especially the different lengths of stay in institutions. Nightingale had a concern that the statistical knowledge should guide public policy.
She approached the distinguished eugenics expert, Sir Francis Galton, to take the matter to the university, but he never really understood her goal.