Inspiring Person

Hi, everybody! We meet again in this article. And now, I will show you a person that is my inspiration. This person was working in the field of medical. Before I explaine about this person I will tell you why this person became my inspiration. This person, became my inspiration because I want to work in the field of medical too, especially become an obstetrician. And when I read this person’s biography, this person inspired me to be a good doctor later. from this person, i saw a big kindness and sincerity  to help people that is riveting me. Well, I think that is enough for prologue. Now I will tell you about my inspiration, FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.

Florence Nightingale as a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She came to prominence while serving as a nurse during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was known as "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night. She was born in Firenze, 12 May 1820. And she passed away on 13 August 1910 in

Park Lane, London, England, United Kingdom (aged 90).

Florence Nightingale's most famous contribution came during the Crimean War, which became her central focus when reports got back to Britain about the horrific conditions for the wounded. On 21 October 1854, she and the staff of 38 women volunteer nurses that she trained, including her aunt Mai Smith,and fifteen Catholic nuns (mobilised by Henry Edward Manning)were sent (under the authorisation of Sidney Herbert) to the Ottoman Empire. They were deployed about 295 nautical miles (546 km; 339 mi) across the Black Sea from Balaklava in the Crimea, where the main British camp was based.

The first edition of the Dictionary of National Biography (1911) asserted that Nightingale reduced the death rate from 42% to 2% either by making improvements in hygiene herself or by calling for the Sanitary Commission. However, death rates actually began to rise to the highest of all hospitals in the region. During her first winter at Scutari, 4,077 soldiers died there. Ten times more soldiers died from illnesses such as typhus, typhoid, cholera and dysentery than from battle wounds. With overcrowding, defective sewers and lack of ventilation, the Sanitary Commission had to be sent out by the British government to Scutari in March 1855, almost six months after Florence Nightingale had arrived. The commission flushed out the sewers and improved ventilation.Death rates were sharply reduced, but she did not recognise hygiene as the predominant cause of death at the time and never claimed credit for helping to reduce the death rate. In 2001 and 2008 the BBC released documentaries that were critical of Nightingale's performance in the Crimean War, as were some follow-up articles published in The Guardian and the Sunday Times. Nightingale scholar L. McDonald has dismissed these criticisms as "often preposterous", arguing they are not supported by the primary sources.

Nightingale still believed that the death rates were due to poor nutrition, lack of supplies and overworking of the soldiers. After she returned to Britain and began collecting evidence before the Royal Commission on the Health of the Army, she came to believe that most of the soldiers at the hospital were killed by poor living conditions. This experience influenced her later career, when she advocated sanitary living conditions as of great importance. Consequently, she reduced peacetime deaths in the army and turned attention to the sanitary design of hospitals.

She was known as “the lady with the lamp” because her kindness when she when she insists on helping a wounded soldier while others refuse to do so.

On 13 August 1910, at the age of 90, she died peacefully in her sleep in her room at 10 South Street, Mayfair, London. The offer of burial in Westminster Abbey was declined by her relatives and she is buried in the graveyard at St. Margaret Church in East Wellow, Hampshire.She left a large body of work, including several hundred notes which were previously unpublished.

I think that’s all about my inspiring person, Florence Nightingale. Thankyou for reading and see you soon on the next article!

From : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale