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Florence Nightingale
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By Grace Humphreys
Contents
- About
- Becoming A Nurse
- The Crimean War
- Making A Difference
- Lady Of The Lamp
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About
About
- Florence was born on the 12th May 1820 in Florence, Italy.
- She lived in England with her parents, Frances and William.
- They were a very wealthy family and had two homes, a summer home in Derbyshire and a winter home in Hampshire.
Becoming a nurse
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- In Victorian Britain, wealthy women like Florence weren’t expected to work – their job was to marry and look after the home.
- But Florence was very different. When she was 16 she decided to become a nurse.
- In 1851 she went to a Christian school for women in Germany to study nursing.
- By 1853 Florence was running a women’s hospital in London, where she did a great job improving the working conditions as well as patient care.
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The Crimean War
- In 1854, the Crimean War broke out, a war with Britain, France and Turkey on one side, and Russia on the the other. British troops went off to fight in the Crimea in Russia. News soon reached home of soldiers dying from battle wounds, cold, hunger and sickness, with no medical care or nurses to treat them. Help was needed fast, and the Minister for War, Sidney Herbert knew just the person.
- He asked Florence to lead a team of nurses to the Crimea!
Florence to the rescue!
When they arrived, the nurses found the Army hospital in a terrible state.
It was overcrowded and filthy, with blocked drains, broken toilets and rats running everywhere. Imagine the smell!
There weren’t enough medical supplies or equipment, and wounded soldiers had to sleep on the dirty floor, without blankets to keep warm, clean water to drink or fresh food to eat. Not surprisingly, disease spread quickly and most of the soldiers died from infection.
Making a difference
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- Florence and her nurses changed these conditions.
- They set up a kitchen, fed the wounded from their own supplies, and asked for help from the wives of the wounded.
- They were then able to properly care for the ill and wounded and the death rate among the soldiers dropped.
Lady of the lamp
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Florence was very dedicated to her job. She would often visit the soldiers at night when every one was asleep just to make sure they were ok. She was then referred to as “The Lady of the Lamp” because she hardly took time off to sleep. Florence became a true hero to the soldiers and everyone back home in England.