Florence Nightingale

Question 1

Doings of Florence Nightingale

Answer 1

• Improve hospital care with 38 other nurses in Crimea for soldiers.
• Improved cleanliness and treatment provided to soldiers.

Question 2

Significance of Nightingale

Answer 2

• Mortality rates decreased from 40% to 2% in 6 months.
• Influenced hospitals to follow pavilion plan (e.g. improved ventilation, larger rooms and separate isolation wards to stop spread of disease) and be built using materials that can be easily cleaned.
• Changed view on nursing, turning it into a professional, respectable job (Notes on Nursing; established training hospital in St Thomas, London - rigorous training)

Question 3

Insignificance of Nightingale

Answer 3

• Hospitals were still not free (many poor only had access to workhouse infirmary).
• Believed in and influence by Miasma.

Question 4

Time of Nightingale’s impact

Answer 4

1856-60 or late 1850s