How effective was the work of Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole? Flashcards
What alerted people in Britain to the plight of the wounded, the inadequate medical provision of the army and the work of volunteers?
Newspaper reports and stories from returning soldiers
What was Florence Nightingaleâs upbringing like?
Born in 1820, second daughter of a wealthy family. Well educated but expected to marry and settle down to a quiet upper-middle-class life. Instead she went to Germany to train as a nurse
What did Florence Nightingaleâs do in 1853?
She took up a senior nursing position in a London clinic in 1853
What reported on the poor quality of medical care for wounded and sick soldiers from the beginning of the Crimean campaign?
The Times newspaper
What did the ministry of war, Sidney Herbert, decide to do around October 1854?
Decided to send a team of volunteer nurses to the Crimea and asked Florence Nightingale to lead it, set sail with 38 nurses in October 1854
Where were Nightingale and her team based?
at a hospital at Scutari in the outskirts of Constantinople (Istanbul)
What was the priority of the army?
Itâs fighting men not the wounded
What demonstrated that the priority of the army was its fighting men and not the wounded?
Raglan had limited medical staff as space was needed for fighting soldiers and horses. Medical supplies had low priority
In which way was the staffing of medical services unsatisfactory?
Army veterans drafted in as stretcher-bearers and nursing orderlies and were often ill-suited for the work. Many became sick. The Scutari âhospitalâ had originally been barracks for the Turks.
How did the doctors take Nightingales and her nurses arrival?
as an implied criticism and Nightingale faced resentment
What did Florence Nightingale and her nurses do after arriving at Scutari?
Reorganised the kitchen and improved food. Cleaned wards and provided clean, washed bedlinen. Arranged school room and library. Sent those with minor wounds to grow vegetables.
What happened in British government in early 1855 that indirectly affected Nightingales work?
They were defeated in a parliamentary vote of the conduct of war and Palmerston succeeded Aberdeen, Nightingales ally Herbert out of office but Palmerston was a supporter
Who ordered a Sanitary Commission to the Crimea?
The new war minister Panmure
Which commissioners began work in March 1855 by expressing shock at conditions at Scutari?
John McNeill, doctor and diplomat
Colonel Alexander Tulloch, a soldier
What did Nurses and doctors blame sickness on?
Miasma, bad air
