Florence Nightingale
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- Created on: 16-05-12 16:10
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- transformed nursing's reputation from a lowly occuptaion, to a well disaplined and professional career
Crimea War - 1854
- stories from scutari reached public britain by the press about the horrific conditions there:
-overcrowding, filthy conditions
-no nursing staff or bandages
-public wanted this to be improved
- Sidney Herbet (secretary of war and friend of the Nightingale family) asked Nightingale to go to Scutari and make improvments there
- Nightingale took 38 nurses she choose hereself to Scutari with her
- when they arrived they wern't welcomed by the military officers and doctors but they made improvments…
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