Florence Nightingale kept meticulous records (statistics) of the number of death, and the causes of death of soldiers so she can justify the need for improving the conditions in hospitals (Contemporary nursing, pp9). She created a pie chart to demonstrate that more soldiers died in the Crimean war from infection than from wounds. Florence Nightingale worked to keep hospitals clean and free from infections, and her work is carried on today in modern hospitals: frequent hand hygiene by all staff, use of protective equipment (gloves, mask, gowns, and eyes protection, shoes cover) to protect patient and staff from infection and the use of private rooms for severely sick patient to prevent the spread of infection among patient to patient or
