Florence Nightingale Research Paper

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Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy in the year of 1820. Florence and her sister were both educated by their father. In 1837 she decided she wanted to do God’s work. She established nursing as her distinct profession.
The period between the late 17th century and into the middle of the 19th century has best been described as the “dark ages” of nursing. Nurses were typically poor and unskilled workers in this time.
In 1851, she went against her parents’ wishes and refused to get married. She went on to train as a nurse in Germany. In 1853 she went on to Paris for additional training.
When she returned to England she took the position of superintendent for London’s Establishment of Gentlewomen during illness in 1853.
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She and thirty-eight other nurses volunteered to help tend to the wounded. She earned the nickname “the Lady with the Lamp” for her tending to the sick throughout the night.
Two of Florence’s greatest achievements was pioneering of nursing and the reform of hospitals. Her father believed that all women should have an education. Florence and her sister learned Italian, Latin, Greek, History, and mathematics. Some claim that she was tutored by James Sylvester.
After one year of not being paid for being a superintendent, Secretary of War, Sidney Herbert, recruited Nightingale and 38 nurses for service during the Crimean War. While there, she collected data and systemized record-keeping practices.
In 1840, Florence Nightingale begged her parents to let her study mathematics. Her mother did not like that idea. She felt her house duties should not be neglected for math. After a while her parents finally granted her permission. Years later, her mathematical approach saved the British Army during the Crimean War that provided the date that led to the hospital …show more content…

In November 1856 a fund had been set up to found a training school for nurses. Nightingale’s health and other occupations prevented Nightingale from being able to accept the role of Superintendent, but, she watched the progress of her new institution with great interest.
In 1858 she published Notes on Matters affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army. In 1859 an army medical college was opened at Chatham and the first military hospital was established in Woolwich in 1861.
Nightingale was involved in establishing the East London Nursing Society (1868), the Workhouse Nursing Association and National Society for providing Trained Nurses for the Poor (1874), and the Queens Jubilee Nursing Institute (1890). Her book, Notes on Nursing first appeared in 1860 and was reprinted many times during her lifetime.
She received the Order of Merit in 1907. In 1908 she was awarded the Freedom of the City of London. On May 10, 1910 she was awarded with the badge of honor of the Norwegian Red Cross Society. On August 13, 1910, Nightingale passed away at the age of ninety. She was buried on August 20, 1910 at East Wellow,

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