Florence Nightingale?

Question

I had long thought Florence Nightingale was a sweet lady who assumed the role of a nurse to attend to the sick and needy.

I also thought she was only a subordinate working in some hospital in London.

I recently found out she was related to the "Charge of the Light Brigade". How could this be so? I thought "Charge of the Light Brigade" was only poetry!

Answer 1

Florence Nightingale is the mother, and founder, of modern nursing. She devoted much of her life to tending the wounded British soldiers, and in the Crimean war, was directly responsible for cutting the mortality rates drastically by her and her followers instituting aseptic procedures in wound care, ensureing potable water, boiled if needed, wich cut dysentary and cholera, and requiring education and training for those who wished to become nurses, making their place and duties a partnership with doctors, and professionals in every sense of the word.
All the more remarkable, given her realatively comfortable station of life and privilege she was born into in England.
Through her efforts, countles men were saved, and continue to be cared for by all those who join the profession she made, turning the word nurse from a verb, to a proud noun.

As to the Charge of the Light Brigade, it is a poem, but it is based on the fight of a light brigade, the term meaning a smaller unit of soldiers, against great odds, an actual battle.
F.N. actually traveled to war zones to nurse the wounded, a totally unheard of idea in that day and age.

Answer 2

The Charge of the Light Brigade (into the valley of death rode the six hundred) is indeed a poem, but one written about a factual event during the Crimean War (I believe.)
Just like Pickett's Charge in the American Civil War.

Answer 3

First the real florence nightingale only cared approximately her sufferers day and evening and extremely almost all have been heavily wounded to even think of roughly romance together with her.Even she had no time and grew to become into depressed seeing the wounded casualities. In present day version in line with threat you may create one yet i wouldn't in any respect favour it because of the fact too many romantic thoughts are made in television and all of it gets boring.i understand women like it yet adult men discover it boring. once you're making a tale approximately it the place the nurse falls in love with the affected person, it may only be yet another boring love tale.

Answer 4

Nightingale was the originator of the profession of nursing and was also a proficient mathematician.

Nightingale was named after her birthplace, Florence, Italy, where her parents were temporary residents. She grew up in Derbyshire, Hampshire and London where her well-to-do father maintained homes. Nightingale received an informal yet substantial education in the Classics, history and mathematics, in order to equip her for marriage to a society gentleman.

But Nightingale was unsatisfied with this life. She felt that she had a calling from God and surprised her family by announcing that her mission was to nurse the sick. She entered the Institution of Protestant Deaconesses, an establishment for the instruction of poor but honest girls in the skills of nursing, and from there, graduated to The Institution for the Care of Sick Gentlewomen.

When the Crimean War broke out, the public were scandalised by reports of crowded and unsanitary conditions faced by wounded British troops in Turkey. Nightingale set off at once for Constantinople with a few close companions to assist her. She petitioned the Secretary of State for War to send more nurses, which he obliged did, and placed Nightingale in charge of the operation. At the hospital at Scutari, Nightingale found the place infested with vermin. Her first request was for 200 scrubbing brushes with which to wash the patients’ clothes. Nightingale had to contend not only with the conditions but apathy of army officers, contempt of doctors and insubordination of junior nurses many of whom had to be sent home for drunkenness or immorality. Nightingale was not so much an active nurse as an administrator and inspector. She became known as the ‘Lady of the Lamp’ due to her frequent tours of the hospital at night with the aid of a Greek lamp.

After the end of the Crimean War, Nightingale took up the science of mathematics as an aid to her interest in epidemiology. She made extensive use of statistical analyses in the compilation and presentation of statistics as an aid to improve health care. Nightingale invented the ‘coxcomb’, a mathematical diagram, and equivalent to the modern circular histogram, to illustrate the causes of mortality. She used these techniques to construct a study of the sanitary conditions of India, despite the fact that she had not visited that country. In 1858, Nightingale was elected as the first female member of the Royal Statistical Society.

When on her deathbed, Nightingale was offered the privilege of burial at Westminster Abbey, an offer that she refused. She was interred in an unfussy tomb [St. Margaret’s Churchyard, Whinwhistle Road, East Wellow, ROMSEY SO51 6BH] with the simple inscription ‘F N’.