Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

"Every day sanitary knowledge, or the knowledge of nursing, or in other words, of how to put the constitution in such a state as that it will have no disease, or that it can recover from disease, takes a higher place. It is recognized as the knowledge which everyone ought to have-distinct from medical knowledge, which only a profession can have,” a quote written in the book Notes on Nursing by Florence Nightingale. After writing this book Nightingale spent the rest of her life promoting the establishment and development of the nursing profession and organizing it into its modern form which helped make it what it is today. Today I will be informing you about Florence Nightingales life, her contribution to the medical field, and the legacies she left behind.   Let’s start with her life.
Florence Nightingale was born on May 12, 1820 into a rich, upper-class, well-connected British family in Florence, Italy. Her parents were William Edward and Frances Nightingale. Florence also had one older sister named Frances Parthenope.
Florence was a unique woman during her time because she rebelled against her expected role has a woman of her status, which was to become a wife and mother. She announced her decision to enter nursing in 1844 in which she was inspired by what she thought was a call from God. She worked hard to educate herself in art and science of nursing. Florence was even praised by politician and poet Richard Milnes, but she rejected him, convinced that marriage would interfere with her ability to follow her calling to nursing.
According to The Victorian Web website, in 1850 Florence visited the Lutheran religious community in Germany, where she had the opportunity to observe Pastor Theodor Fliedner and the deaconesses working for the sick and the deprived. She expressed the experience as a turning point in her life, and issued her findings in the book The Institution of Kaiserswerth on the Rhine, for the Practical Training of... [continues]

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