She was called the "Lady of the lamp", for being that tireless woman who did not neglect her work at any time, for being that nurse who loved her profession above all things, and that he attended to his wounded with utmost dedication, whatever time it was, always holding his lamp.
His name? Florence Nightingale .We are sure you would love to know more about this woman who laid many of the current foundations of the nursing field.
The legacy from Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale was a very advanced woman at the time.She had a restless and challenging spirit, full of cravings and dreams that went far beyond the iron standards.from traditional Victorian England.Just by looking at his gaze, we intuited his strength: Florence was not one of those who bore the calm of the home or that suffocating routine in which every young married woman fell, every girl educated only to be a wife and mother.
Florence felt like a drifting ship, until she decided to react.She was very good at math and science, and although at first her father didn't see well that continued his academic training, he allowed it in exchange for never losing sight of his position in the soc his life and his obligations to his family.However, when Florence Nightingale received his first marriage proposal, he rejected it and realized instantly that he was not going to endure that kind of life much more.
I wanted to be a nurse, is more, He wanted to help sick people.He also had a great religious vocation, a sincere will to help his fellow men.However, we could also add that his believing heart, was also joined by a pinch.of tenacious and adventurous woman , because in 1849, he began an initiatory and formative journey through Europe and Egypt.Places in which he spent long periods in various hospitals, where he received education as a nurse and learned different methodologies and procedures.
He was in Alejandria, in an institution Catholic, then in Dusseldorf, and also in the Saint Germain hospital of Paris .He received a great training and with it he managed to be superintendent in the Institute for the Care of Sick Ladies of London, afterwards, follow a new impulse from his heart: go to the Crimean War, in 1854.Until that time, the war and the treatment of the wounded was a matter of men.Mortality in hospitals used to be 90%, since the problem of infections or unhealthiness was also added cholera or typhus.
While it is true that the issue of infections was not fully understood until the arrival years after the works of Luis Pasteur, it is known that the influence of Florence Nightingale on the care of the sick throughout the Crimean War, I agree some unique and exceptional bases.She used to write regularly to the newspaper "The Times", describing "the precarious state" in which all the wounded soldiers were and the scarce resources that the countries devoted to the care of The people became aware of this and the government decided, then, to invest more money.Thanks to that, Florence Nightingale developed the well-known detachable bell hospitals, able to get closer to the confrontation zones and to provide care for the wounded before.
This girl was not a pioneer in the medical field, at all.But I lay the foundations of the concept of modern nursing when organizing staff, putting strict measures of hygiene and conceive of nursing as a kind of «exerit or »well instructed, in which there are guidelines, norms and where the patient is always the most important.I avoid contagion and the survival rate in the Crimean War amounted to 70%.The legacy of Florence Nightingale is a gentle breath that, today, is still present in our hospitals and our clinics.
He left us his entrepreneurial spirit, dedicating the rest of his life to promoting the current basis of nursing as a profession, and how to set modern standards.He was the first woman to receive the Order of Merit of the United Kingdom, and as a final curiosity we will tell you that, despite considering Henri Dunant, as founder of the "Red Cross", the same express as the person that really inspired him to create such an organization was «the Lady of the Lamp».
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