M Florence Nightingale and other hospital developments Flashcards
Give two examples of what hospitals did to improve conditions
Scrubbing brushes to get rid of dirt near patients and clean bed sheets and good meals
When did nightingale set up the Nightingale School for Nurses?
1860
What was set up in 1860?
Nightingale set up the Nightingale School for Nurses
What type of hospitals did Nightingale promote
Nightingale promoted the pavilion style hospital to ensure infectious patients would be kept safe and away from other patients
What was the purpose for pavilion style hospitals?
It insures infectious patients stayed away from other patients
what did Nightingales improvements mean for death rates in military hospitals
her improvements to military hospitals during the Crimean War reduced death rates from 40% to only 2%.