Florence Nightingale changed the face of health care. She became the mother of modern nursing. In the early 1800’s, there were no health standards, like hand washing. People would die from a simple infection due to the hospital not being clean enough. Nightingale worked to lower the death rates in many hospitals and improve the conditions. She knew she wanted to help people from a young age. Nightingale was never discouraged by people that did not believe in her, she continued to do what she loved. Florence Nightingale greatly impacted the medical field and save many lives. Nightingale disagreed with most practices of health care in her time. She noticed the practices were doing more harm than good. She disagreed with administering medications
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Clean water was limited. It was contaminated because the hospital was sitting on a cesspool (Florence Nightingale). The patients were being forced to lay in their own body waste. Basic supplies like clean water and bandages were limited. Most patients contracted infectious disease because lack of hygiene. They often contracted diseases like typhoid fever and cholera (Florence Nightingale). In their time, this was normal. With Nightingale’s help, the death rates went down by two-thirds. She had the most able-bodied patients scrub the hospital from top to …show more content…
She is the force behind many changes in how health care was perceived. Before Nightingale, nursing was seen as the lowest of the low because who would want to take care of the sick and ill. She transformed nursing into something honorable and no longer looked down upon by prominent first class people. Nightingale has greatly impacted modern healthcare by doing what is seen as necessary today. Florence Nightingale was determined to change the face of health car and save many lives. Very few people believed in her because she wanted to be an educated woman. Nightingale receive a lot of discouragement because of her social standing but she ignored them and changed the face of
Clean water was limited. It was contaminated because the hospital was sitting on a cesspool (Florence Nightingale). The patients were being forced to lay in their own body waste. Basic supplies like clean water and bandages were limited. Most patients contracted infectious disease because lack of hygiene. They often contracted diseases like typhoid fever and cholera (Florence Nightingale). In their time, this was normal. With Nightingale’s help, the death rates went down by two-thirds. She had the most able-bodied patients scrub the hospital from top to …show more content…
She is the force behind many changes in how health care was perceived. Before Nightingale, nursing was seen as the lowest of the low because who would want to take care of the sick and ill. She transformed nursing into something honorable and no longer looked down upon by prominent first class people. Nightingale has greatly impacted modern healthcare by doing what is seen as necessary today. Florence Nightingale was determined to change the face of health car and save many lives. Very few people believed in her because she wanted to be an educated woman. Nightingale receive a lot of discouragement because of her social standing but she ignored them and changed the face of