Florence Nightingale

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Why is Florence Nightingale important to medicine?

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Florence Nightingale's importance to medican is that at a time when nurrsing was done in a hapazard way and without regulation, shetook it in hand with regards to the army and as a privat person took young women out to the Crimea to help nurse the army, what she saw was dirt filth a disregard for human lkive when it was in pain and she set about cleaning and disinfecting the hospiotal at Scutari, she organised a nursing structure that was at first at odds with theauthoritys but with help from influencal friends in London she managed to show thatclean and disinfected wards in hospitals and a dedicated nursing staff was a help in preventing infection etc, to see what her legasy was look out for a BBC program called Casualty 1900? the dramer shows how nursing had changed for the better by 1900 and was being lead by women who had know Nightingale