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Florence Nightingale and St. Thomas Hospital
In 1845, Florence Nightingale announced that she would be a nurse. As a rich, upper-class British woman, society expected her to be a wife and mother. Before Nightingale, nurses were primarily male; patient mortality rates were high.
In 1854, Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 volunteer women nurses went to Selimiye Barracks to help the wounded soldiers from the Crimean War. In spite of Florence Nightingale and her volunteer nurses, death rates did not drop. Death rates skyrocketed and the death count at Nightingale's hospital was the highest of all the hospitals in the region. The hospital had defective sewers and insufficient ventilation.
Six months after Nightingale arrived, the sewers were flushed out and ventilation improved. Nightingale observed the sharp reductions in death rates and understood the link between sanitation and healing. Her work helped this link to be recognized and the value of cleanliness in nursing was established.
In 1860 Nightingale established the Nightingale Training School at St. Thomas Hospital. This was the first modern nurse training school.
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