Florence Nightingale Research Paper

Florence Nightingale was a pioneer of nursing, leading a brave crusade of women to tend to the ill during a dangerous time in war. Nursing has been a long part of history even before it was founded by Florence Nightingale. Woman has been performing nursing practices for thousands of years. As with the roles that women play back in 1800, nursing is no different in those times as with women of today's society using traditional care giving that takes place in the comfort of one's own home. In those ancient times of Rome, Emperors were cared for by their wives when they were ill, and midwives where hired to assist in childbirth at home in Egypt. But the major part of nursing as we know it today, begin in the mid 1800 with a nurse by the name of Florence Nightingale. She was a woman of great courage, knowledge, and strength with the will to pursue her god given dream despite what her parents felt.

The Beginning of Nursing Florence Nightingale was thought to have followed in the footsteps of her era by learning how to do needlework, lady …show more content…
She and her nurses brought remarkable improvement. The death rate of wounded soldiers soon dropped to an amazing 2.2 percent. By the end of the Crimean War the death rate was just one percent (Schlager and Lauer). While Nightingale worked endless nights caring for the soldiers, she was given the nickname ''the lady of the lamp'' because she roomed the corridors at night carrying a lamp. She looked after the soldiers making sure all their needs were met, and that the soldiers received pay for being sick. Nightingale made tremendous contributions in Scutari by raising money to help fund the war hospital, and for the kind love and sympathy that she showed for the weak in suffering. After the war was over in 1860, Nightingale founded the first nursing school in London named the Nightingale school in Saint Thomas Hospital which was also home for the