You can read the digitized version of this here. The Commission’s Report led to far-reaching changes to health services in the British Army. While still exhausted and ill from the Crimean Fever which she contracted while overseas, she prepared a 1000 page report of tables and statistics, entitled “Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hospital Administration of the British Army”. She met with Queen Victoria and, after gaining her support, convinced the government to set up a commission of inquiry into the health of the army. Troubled by the unnecessary suffering and death in the Crimea, Nightingale’s greatest contribution was after the war. Notes on matters affecting the health, efficiency, and hospital administration of the British Army Nightingale’s main influences on reducing patient deaths at Scutari Hospital was overcoming opposition by medical practitioners, organizing the hospital, improving the environment and obtaining supplies. The greatest contribution of “The Lady with the Lamp” relating to the Crimean War was not direct patient care. Her drive as a social reformer and patient advocate was already evident in this position as she battled and eventually won over the hospital’s committee to admit patients of all faiths, rather than only those who belong to the Church of England. A ward of the hospital at Scutari where Nightingale worked, from an 1856 lithographĮventually at the age of 33 Nightingale was appointed as superintendent at the new Hospital for Gentlewomen in Distress. She had to fight strong opposition from her family to her achieve her ambition of becoming a nurse. From a young age, she was could not accept this as her future, and even turned down proposals of marriage as it would interfere with her work. Nightingale was born as a member of the upper classes where the role of the women in society was to do the social rounds, marry and have children. Nightingale got her first nursing job at the age of 33. In 1860 she privately published a work of 829 pages entitled “ Suggestions for Thought to Searchers after Religious Truth.” 2. She was a serious student of theology and metaphysics for the rest of her life. She didn’t know what form the service would take at that point, but at 25 she identified nursing as the way to reach her goal of reducing misery and suffering in the world. When she was 17 years old, Nightingale received, what she believed was a clear calling from God to be of service. A quote from Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale was deeply religious. Here are some interesting facts about Florence Nightingale you may not have known. However, there is much more to learn about this remarkable woman whose influence extended to nursing, health care and social reform, army health services, religion, statistics and more. We all know Florence Nightingale as the “Lady with the Lamp” and the founder of modern nursing across the world.
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