The woman who trained as a nurse against her family’s wishes, tended soldiers by lamplight in the hospitals of the Crimean War, changed sanitation with statistics and made nursing a profession
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Against her family’s wishes, Nightingale spent three months learning nursing at the Kaiserswerth institute in Germany.
When Russia, seeking to expand southward, went to war with the Ottoman Empire, Britain, France and Sardinia sided with the Ottomans. Russia lost Sevastopol and the war, and its southward drive was checked.
Nightingale led 38 nurses to the British army hospital at Scutari in the Crimean War; making her rounds each night with a lamp, she became “the Lady with the Lamp”.
Nightingale drew circular graphs (the “rose diagrams”) dividing the deaths of soldiers in the Crimean War by cause, showing at a glance that most had died of preventable disease.
The Nightingale Training School for nurses opened at St Thomas’ Hospital in London — the beginning of modern nurse education, training nurses for the profession.
British nurse who reformed sanitation in the military hospitals of the Crimean War, cutting soldiers’ death rates, and laid the foundations of modern nursing and its training
Emperor of Russia (1855–1881) who, after defeat in the Crimean War, emancipated the serfs and pursued reform from above, but was assassinated by revolutionaries
Louis-Napoléon, nephew of Napoleon I, elected president in 1848, who made himself emperor (1852–1870) by a coup but was captured in the Franco-Prussian War and deposed
British politician who, as Secretary at War during the Crimean War, sent Nightingale to Scutari and afterwards led army health reform with her
Jamaican nurse who, refused as an army nurse in the Crimean War, opened her own lodging near Balaklava and cared for soldiers close to the front