Florence Nightingale

At seventeen she felt herself to be called by God to some unnamed great cause.

 

May 12, 1820	She was born in Florence Italy.
1851	Florence's father gave her permission to train as a nurse.
1856	Florence Nightingale returned to England as a national heroine
1859	She publishes a small book called "Notes on Nursing."
1861	She is asked for advice on nursing by the Union forces in the American Civil War.
August 13 1910	She had passed away

Who was She? Founder of Nursing Movement

Family Background: Second daughter of wealthy parents, William Edward Shore (He adopted the name Nightingale to get his inheritance) and Frances Smith, wealthy daughter of a Unitarian family and Liberal politician.

Education: Taught at home by her father who was Cambridge University educated.

Florence Nightingale is most remembered as a pioneer of nursing and a reformer of hospital sanitation methods. For most of her ninety years, Nightingale pushed for reform of the British military health-care system and with that the profession of nursing started to gain the respect it deserved. Unknown to many, however, was her use of new techniques of statistical analysis, such as during the Crimean War when she plotted the incidence of preventable deaths in the military. She developed the "polar-area diagram" to dramatize the needless deaths caused by unsanitary conditions and the need for reform. With her analysis, Florence Nightingale revolutionized the idea that social phenomena could be objectively measured and subjected to mathematical analysis. She was an innovator in the collection, tabulation, interpretation, and graphical display of descriptive statistics.

 

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