Florence Nightingale was a pioneer of modern nursing who was born in 1820 in Italy. She received an excellent education despite Victorian norms limiting women's education. During the Crimean War, Nightingale traveled to Crimea with 38 nurses to care for wounded British soldiers. Through her efforts, the mortality rate among soldiers dropped dramatically from 42% to 2%. Nightingale established nursing as a respected profession and revolutionized sanitary standards in hospitals. She founded the first nursing school and wrote influential textbooks that are still used today. Nightingale dedicated her life to nursing and is considered the founder of modern nursing practices.

3. Florence Nightingale
MOTHER OF MODERN NURSING
The lady with the lamp

4. Pioneer of Modern Nursing
Florence
Nightingale

5. EARLY LIFE
o Place: Florence, Italy
o Birth: May 12, 1820 (International
Nurses Day)
o Daughter of a wealthy landowner,
William Nightingale, who later took
responsibility for her education,
teaching her statistics, languages,
history, mathematics, etc.
o Her father provided her with
reputable education which was
uncommon for a Victorian
woman.

6. o At seventeen she
experienced what she
felt as a “divine call”.
o She visited sick people at
home.
o In 1851, her father gave
her permission to train
as a nurse.

7. THE CRIMEAN WAR (1854 –
1856)
England and France were helping Turkey in
a war against Russia.
o France, England and Turkey
declared war to Russia.
o Soon after the British soldiers
arrived in Turkey they started to die
from cholera and malaria.
o When the government heard about
this they had to change their minds
about women nursing men.

8. THE CRIMEAN WAR (1854 – 1856)
England and France were helping Turkey in a war
against Russia.
Russia & France had religious
sisters to care for their
wounded
But England had only trained
men
Florence Nightingale received
a letter of appeal from the
Minister of war
With 38 nurses from Catholic
and Protestant Orders she set
for Crimea

9. Wounded soldiers were
transported by sea to the
hospitals

10. Through her tireless efforts the mortality rate among the
sick and the wounded was greatly reduced (from 42% to
2%)
• 5 – 6 nurses shared one room
including eating and sleeping. They -
• Scrubbed and cleaned, improved
drainage
• Procured soaps, towels and clothing
• Opened diet kitchens, made good
food
• Visited the sick and wrote letters for
them
• Set up laundries, reading rooms and
post offices for them

11. “THE LADY WITH THE
LAMP”
o At night she carried a lamp
while taking rounds from
room to room to look after
her patients.
o This earned her the
affectionate title of "Lady
with the Lamp."

12. The soldiers kissed her
shadow as she passed by and
got solace from their
sufferings

13. A FACELIFT TO NURSING
o She founded the Nightingale School and
Home for Nurses using money donated in
tribute to her services.
o The school marked the beginning of
professional education in the nursing field.
o Her book Notes on hospitals’ and ‘Notes on
Nursing’ became the first definitive textbook
for the field.
o Through selfless devotion and sheer
determination, Florence Nightingale
transformed the profession of nursing forever.
o She gave dignity and honor to Nursing, and
revolutionized hospital conditions, making
them more organized and above all, sanitary.
o 1907 – King Edward conferred on her the
‘Order of Merit’

14. When she grew old…
o Florence Nightingale lived
to a ripe old age of 90 years.
o 13 Aug 1910 - She died
peacefully in her sleep
o Today the Nurses take the
Florence Nightingale pledge
before being formally
initiated into the profession
of Nursing.

15. "The ultimate destination of all nursing is the nursing of the
sick in their own homes.... I look to the abolition of all
hospitals and workhouse infirmaries."
– Florence Nightingale

16. "To do what nobody else will do, a way that nobody else can do,
inspite of all we go through; is to be a NURSE.”
- Rawsi Williams
Thank you
RINEE KHANNA