Florence Nightingale Influence On Nursing

Florence Nightingale was a young and talented woman. Who, she had to overcome to outstand her wishes to become a nurse, at least from the family. She had become the first woman for the nursing field. During the Victorian Era one was obligated to marry within their social class and obtain a job within their given range. By the age of 16 that was when she realized that nursing is calling upon her name and stating that’s her duty to become one. As opposed to her family wishes she had decided to join as a nursing student in 1844, at the Lutheran Hospital of Pastor Fliedner in Kaiserswerth, Germany.During the Crimean war in the early 1850s, Nightingale had returned to London where she took a nursing job in a Middlesex hospital. During the late 1854, Nightingale received a letter from Secretary of War Sidney Herbert, asking her to organize a corps of nurses to tend to the sick and fallen soldiers in the Crimea.
Today Florence Nightingale isn’t alive, but there’s a Florence Nightingale Museum, which sits at the site of the original Nightingale Training School for nurses with more than 2,000 artifacts demonstrating the life and career of the “Angel of the Crimea.” To this day, Florence Nightingale is broadly acknowledged and revered as the pioneer of modern nursing. Christopher J. Gill and Gillian C. Gill, critics believe Florence Nightingale is an important person that has impacted in American History. “We argue that Florence Nightingale's influence today extends beyond her undeniable impact on the field of modern nursing to the areas of infection control, hospital epidemiology, and hospice