WEEK 8

• FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE


  •1854 - crimean war Britain & Russia

  •Minister for War

  •1 month = cleaned & repaired wards, more beds, chef for patients, unblocked drains, shifts & training for nurses

  •death rate fell from 40% - 2%

  •books on nursing in 1859 & 1864

  •nursing schools

  •miasma and dissed germ theory
• MARY SEACOLE

  •born in jamaica

  •experience in Panama with cholera

  •1854 - went to Crimea in war

  •nobody would let her in hospitals

  •"british hotel" - food and drink to soldiers, treated gun wounds

  •highly respected