Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale was a woman who pioneered nursing as a profession due to her passion for nursing. During the Crimean War, the British government discovered that they needed someone to assist with those who were injured. In 1854, they appointed Florence Nightingale as the superintendant of the nursing staff due to her ability to provide nursing services (Hood, 2014). Florence Nightingale changed the way healthcare would be given to soldiers during the Crimean War. Nightingale and another colleague worked to obtain funding, and were able to change two hospitals that were in poor conditions, and changed it to a facility that was clean and well ventilated (Hood, 2014). In the video, Sentimental Women Need Not Apply (Garey and Hoyt, 1988), Florence created an atmosphere that changed patients by showing that there are people who cared whether they lived or die. This changed the physical and mental conditions of those ill and injured, and in turn changed the mortality rate from 40% to 2% (Hood, 2014). In today’s society, Hospitals continue to change their standards to ensure patient’s safety and health are a priority and make necessary changes when needed.
Civil War Nursing …show more content…
Dorothea Dix was appointed as the superintendant of the female nurses in the Union Army (Hood, 2014) and established the Army Nurse Corp. These nurses were selfless and volunteered to even put themselves in harms way to take care of the soldier. In 1881, the American Red Cross was started, all credited to a school teacher from New England, Clara Barton. Barton organized relief efforts to provide supplies to care for those injured or displaced in battle (Hood, 2014). This continues today with thousand of corporations, including the Red Cross, helping when there are
Florence Nightingale was a woman who pioneered nursing as a profession due to her passion for nursing. During the Crimean War, the British government discovered that they needed someone to assist with those who were injured. In 1854, they appointed Florence Nightingale as the superintendant of the nursing staff due to her ability to provide nursing services (Hood, 2014). Florence Nightingale changed the way healthcare would be given to soldiers during the Crimean War. Nightingale and another colleague worked to obtain funding, and were able to change two hospitals that were in poor conditions, and changed it to a facility that was clean and well ventilated (Hood, 2014). In the video, Sentimental Women Need Not Apply (Garey and Hoyt, 1988), Florence created an atmosphere that changed patients by showing that there are people who cared whether they lived or die. This changed the physical and mental conditions of those ill and injured, and in turn changed the mortality rate from 40% to 2% (Hood, 2014). In today’s society, Hospitals continue to change their standards to ensure patient’s safety and health are a priority and make necessary changes when needed.
Civil War Nursing …show more content…
Dorothea Dix was appointed as the superintendant of the female nurses in the Union Army (Hood, 2014) and established the Army Nurse Corp. These nurses were selfless and volunteered to even put themselves in harms way to take care of the soldier. In 1881, the American Red Cross was started, all credited to a school teacher from New England, Clara Barton. Barton organized relief efforts to provide supplies to care for those injured or displaced in battle (Hood, 2014). This continues today with thousand of corporations, including the Red Cross, helping when there are