Improvement in hospitals and the influence of Florence Nightingale
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- Improvement in hospitals and the influence of Florence Nightingale
- Hospitals in the 18th Century
- In 1700, there were only 5 hospitals, and they were all in London - the country did not invest in hospitals after the dissolution of the monetarists.
- New donation-funded hospitals started to appear - doctors would volunteer their time to practice their skills.
- increasingly became a place for sick people to go for treatment .
- On sight physicians and apothecaries/surgeons and a number of untrained nurses.
- The 'deserving poor' were administered - gave the poor a chance to medical care for the first time.
- as more people came, the sanitary conditions decreased and more infections patients were administered.
- doctors went between wards without washing their hand etc. and so disease spread quickly
- didn't yet understand germs, so they didn't know how to stop this.
- doctors went between wards without washing their hand etc. and so disease spread quickly
- Florence Nightingale
- 1854: went to Crimea in Russia - she had convinced the Gov. to allow her to go and improve the hospital conditions.
- she demanded scrubbing brushes to remove any dirt near patients beds
- nurses were organised to treat nearly 2,000 wounded soldiers.
- clean bedding and good meals were provided.
- mortality rates dropped from 40% to 2% in six months.
- Influence in British hospitals
- hospitals were built from materials that could be easily cleaned such as tiles and painted walls.
- She believed that dirt spread disease
- promoted the 'pavilion style' hospital with separate wards and a lot of light and fresh air.
- Made nursing into a respectable profession
- set up a school where rigorous training made nurses skilled
- hospitals were built from materials that could be easily cleaned such as tiles and painted walls.
- 1854: went to Crimea in Russia - she had convinced the Gov. to allow her to go and improve the hospital conditions.
- Hospitals by 1900
- wards split infectious patients from those requiring surgery
- operating theaters and specialist departments for new medical equipment provided separate spaces for certain procedures.
- cleanliness was of utmost importance - antiseptics
- doctors and professionals were a common sight for hands-on experience
- became places where the sick were treated rather than places of rest.
- wards split infectious patients from those requiring surgery
- Hospitals in the 18th Century
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