Florence nightingale and changes in hospitals Flashcards

understand there changes that nightingale implimented in the hospital in Scutari

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when with who why and by who was she sent to Scutari

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when? the 5th of November of 1854
with? 32 neurses
why? to help the conditions in the hospital in the Crimea
by who? Sidney Herbert

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what were soldiers dying from

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they were dying from infection of their wounds from battle

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what were the conditions of the hospital before nightingale

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the hospital was filthy, smelly and men were dying on the floor, there was a lack of clean water and food there was also not enough doctors so soldiers would wait days to see one

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what were the conditions of the hospital after nightingale

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the hospital then had a bed for every patient with space between them, made sure there was good ventilation and made separate wards for the different illnessess

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with the 32 nurses that came with her what did they need to do

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the nurses need to scrub the floors, walls and furniture, make sure the soldiers has clean clothes and bedding, order medical supplies, bath the patients and provide them with food and water

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in what did nightingale believe in

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the miasma theory

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