FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

"The Lady With the Lamp," Florence Nightingale, was a British

nurse, social reformer, and statistician best remembered as the
foundation of modern nursing. Her opinions on hygiene were
formed by her experiences as a nurse during the Crimean War. In
1860, she founded St. Thomas' Hospital and the Nightingale
Nursing Training School. Her efforts to reform healthcare had a
significant impact on the quality of care throughout the
nineteenth and twentieth century.
When I first read her story, I was moved by how she struggled for
her dream of being a nurse, believing that it was her destiny. It
motivated me as a student nurse; every day I felt like giving up,
but I remind myself that this is my passion, and I would not give up
on it. During the Crimean war as I read what happened there, I felt
emotional because she turn things around and give the proper
care for the soldiers who have been hurt during the war. Her
never-ending stream of compassion moves and comforts the
soldiers and her work reduced the hospitals death rate by two-
thirds. She inspires so many people and young woman aspired to
be like her. Because of her, nursing viewed as an honorable
vocation.
Nightingale had contracted “Crimean fever” but that doesn’t stop
her in improving health care and alleviating patients suffering,
despite the fact that she was already bedridden. Her story as a
nurse motivates me to be a committed and caring advocate for
better health care.