Florence Nightingale
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EvaluationIn 1984 Florence Nightingale was asked to go to Turkey to manage the nursing of British soldiers wounded in the Crimean War (1854 - 56) as stations were poorly staffed, with insufficient supplies, and the medical and sanitary conditions were awful. This terrible state of affairs was reported by the media in Britain. She travelled to Scutari (the location where the wounded and ill soldiers of the Crimean War were taken) to help the wounded soldiers. She found the hospital conditions to be in a very poor state. Many of the wounded were unwashed and were sleeping in overcrowded, dirty rooms without blankets or decent food. In these conditions diseases such as typhus, cholera and dysentery spread quickly. As a result, death rate amongst wounded soldiers were very high. Only 1 in 6 soldiers died from their war wounds. Florence Nightingale had some impact on medical developments. She improved training for nurses and her 'notes on nursing' emphasised the role of hygiene and influenced the setting of the royal commissions of health. People in Britain also gave money to a fun to help the 'Nightingale Nurses'. |
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