Florence Nightingale

• What did Nightingale do in Crimea?


  • Demanded 300 scrubbing brushes to clean dirt near patients
  • Went with 38 other nurses and 15 nuns to improve hospitals
  • Had clean bedding & good meals provided
  • Organised nurses to treat nearly 2000 wounded soldiers
  • Ensured that there was regular hand washing, improvements to sewerage and improvements to ventilation
• How did Nightingale impact British hospitals?

  • Had hospitals built with improved ventilation, more windows, larger rooms and separate isolations
  • Established a nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital called 'The Nightingale School for Nurses' in London in 1860
• What did Nightingale do that influenced improvements in hospitals across the world?

  Wrote two books, one was called Notes on Nursing published in 1859 and the other was Notes on Hospitals published in 1863