The Life of the Lady with the Lamp Sarah Stegner Southwestern Community College October 5, 2016
Abstract The founder of modern nursing and the lady with the lamp are both nicknames given to Florence Nightingale, for her hard work and dedication she gave during the Crimean War and throughout her life. Nightingale was an elite upper class woman who went against her family’s wishes and societal views and became a nurse, determined to help reduce human suffering. Her work during the Crimean War reduced the deaths of soldiers from forty to two percent. Upon arrival home from the war, Nightingale continued her work by helping reform the military medical and purveyance systems. Nightingale was rewarded graciously by the British government and a private fund that was established as the …show more content…
Nightingale was an elite upper class woman who went against her family’s wishes and societal views and became a nurse, determined to help reduce human suffering. Her work during the Crimean War reduced the deaths of soldiers from forty to two percent. Upon arrival home from the war, Nightingale continued her work by helping reform the military medical and purveyance systems. Nightingale was rewarded graciously by the British government and a private fund that was established as the Nightingale Fund, in which she used the money to institute the Nightingale School of Nursing. Although, Nightingale spent her later years bed bond due to Crimean fever that she had contracted during the war she never stopped working, she was fiercely determined to continue improving health care and alleviating patients’ suffering even from her bed. She received the merit of honor, the title of Lady of Grace, and was the first woman to receive the Order of Merit. She died in August 1910 after changing the world of
Abstract The founder of modern nursing and the lady with the lamp are both nicknames given to Florence Nightingale, for her hard work and dedication she gave during the Crimean War and throughout her life. Nightingale was an elite upper class woman who went against her family’s wishes and societal views and became a nurse, determined to help reduce human suffering. Her work during the Crimean War reduced the deaths of soldiers from forty to two percent. Upon arrival home from the war, Nightingale continued her work by helping reform the military medical and purveyance systems. Nightingale was rewarded graciously by the British government and a private fund that was established as the …show more content…
Nightingale was an elite upper class woman who went against her family’s wishes and societal views and became a nurse, determined to help reduce human suffering. Her work during the Crimean War reduced the deaths of soldiers from forty to two percent. Upon arrival home from the war, Nightingale continued her work by helping reform the military medical and purveyance systems. Nightingale was rewarded graciously by the British government and a private fund that was established as the Nightingale Fund, in which she used the money to institute the Nightingale School of Nursing. Although, Nightingale spent her later years bed bond due to Crimean fever that she had contracted during the war she never stopped working, she was fiercely determined to continue improving health care and alleviating patients’ suffering even from her bed. She received the merit of honor, the title of Lady of Grace, and was the first woman to receive the Order of Merit. She died in August 1910 after changing the world of