Synopsis of Florence Nightingale: Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy, on May 12, 1820, a well-off, highly educated man who read a lot of literature, was well versed in history, philosophy, and mathematics, and was religiously inclined, good at music and painting, and proficient in four languages: English, French, German, and Italian. As a young woman, she assisted her father's old friend in caring for the sick, and gradually became interested in nursing, which strengthened her determination to pursue a career in nursing. In 1850, at the age of 30, she went to Germany to study nursing, and at the age of 33, she went to Paris to study nursing organization. Upon her return home, she became the director of nursing at a hospital in London, and in 1853, the Crimean War broke out between Britain, France, and Russia. Nightingale was invited by the British government to lead 38 nurses to the front. Britain had always opposed the presence of female nurses in hospitals, especially field hospitals, due to religious and social stereotypes. Nightingale at the front fully demonstrated her talents in all aspects, she used her position and reputation, broke through the barriers of the military authorities, took out her own 30,000 pounds for the hospital to buy drugs and medical equipment and reorganize the hospital, improve the living environment and nutritional conditions of the wounded, reorganize the operating room, canteen and laboratory, and soon changed the face of the field hospitals, which could only accommodate 1700 wounded people. The hospital received 3,000 to 4,000 wounded through her arrangement. 6 months later, the field hospital underwent a great change and the mortality rate of the wounded dropped rapidly from 50% to 2%. This miraculous **** witnessed the effect of nursing shook the whole country, and at the same time changed the British court on the nurses of the valuation and improve the status of women, nursing has been the importance of society. The importance of nursing was also recognized. Nightingale's greatest achievement was the creation of the nursing profession. She pioneered many nursing measures and systems, such as the use of the patient to call the bell, set up a winch in the kitchen to transport meals to the patient, the establishment of the nurse rounds system, etc. June 24, 1860, she will be all walks of life in the United Kingdom in recognition of her merits and donations to the huge sum of money as a "Florence Nightingale Fund" in St. Thomas' Hospital in London, the "Nightingale Fund" was created. The Nightingale Training School for Nurses was established at St. Thomas' Hospital in London. This school in 1890, after more than 30 years of nursing education trained 1005 students, most of the best were hired by the British, American and Asian hospitals to open nursing schools. Her writings and more than 100 papers have been recognized over the years as important contributions to nursing education and hospital management. Nightingale's significance to nursing is to let the society know that nursing is a kind of "technology", and raise it to the status of "specialized occupation", she is therefore called "the founder of modern nursing work She is therefore called "the founder of modern nursing" and is rightly regarded as the pioneer of nursing by her descendants. Marx, the revolutionary mentor, was moved by Nightingale's bravery and dedication and praised this great woman. Today the whole world honors her with May 12 as Nurses' Day. Nightingale has become one of the world's great people and is honored by people. (Guo Yang)
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