While each of us is born with some setting, that of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) is undoubtedly to improve the British hospital system.
In her case, she being very rich by birth, should not be thought to some hobbies to pass the time, because the hospitals of the time were nothing short of scary places: Due to poor hygienic conditions that characterize them, inevitably were due to spread of infectious diseases more horrible, certainly not places of treatment. Among the many causes of the spread of infections, there was also that due to the fact that doctors do not wash their hands before performing surgery and entered the operating room with the same clothes they wore in the street. Obviously, the hospital mortality was very high.
"Nightingale felt that to improve the outcomes of the British had to start working on some fundamental concepts such as hygiene environments and lifestyles, the organization of social services and the report 's help with the sick. It is around these concepts, which fail to build a foundation for the birth and development of nursing. Nightingale's ideas aroused enormous interest among the British government, thanks to its ability to support them through the tools of scientific evidence, which at that time began to assume great importance for the spread in Europe of positivist thought. During the Crimean War, when British, French and Turks fought against the Russians, the British Government appointed the superintendent of the body in nursing from the British United Hospitals in Turkey. The hospital in Scutari had thousands of beds in crowded corridors of 6 km long and dirty: it was infested with mice, there was water and overflowing toilets clogged the lanes. Nightingale arrived there with 38 nurses, of which only 12 would survive. She showed that the high mortality rate diseases among the soldiers (42%) was related to inadequate care and, despite the obstacles imposed by the medical officers, who did not accept this theory, relying on funds obtained from private donations, with great determination he was able to provide the Barrack Hospital in Scutari efficient sanitation assistance and appropriate infrastructure. The mortality rate fell to 2%. Through the survey of these observations and the application of mathematical models, failed to substantiate his theories ... "(L. Lance and C. Petrucci, in Nurses N.4/2005).
A character in a truly dazzling brightness, although the percentage of 2%, so a nose, it seems more realistic that hagiographic without detracting from the genius and enterprise of this woman.
In Friday's Republic of 4.07.2008 appeared a brief review of a BBC TV movie ( Florence Nightingale), which presents a review English founder of modern heroine of the infirmary, highlighting other aspects was not an angel, but a lady Iron prone to error because, just as an example, for every soldier cured many died in the camp hospital set up by mistake on a drainage channel. The main character, the actress Laura phrase, and the director explains: " The film does not invent anything: it is all written in letters of Florence." "But meanwhile, the British wonder about fiction: revisionist works or wants to tell the other half not so known in history?" The character, in my opinion, is really of great interest for a number of sociological reasons, even more than psychological.
First, when we find a woman who works with a nineteenth century such power of penetration done in the world, almost always requires considerable angles A, and this case is no exception.
From another point of view, but also its ability to withstand the intense human suffering without being overwhelmed, in need of great responsiveness, ie even angles A and B.
addition, as a woman, was a figure so to break the current mentality (women were not allowed to deal with some medicine) in its claim to require doctors (males) to change their behavior to meet of hygiene, we can not even imagine, in terms of personality, which was not widely supported, in its ability to resist, the angles A and B above average. About errors which is charged by the most recent historical criticism, graphology can say only this: the activation of the personality is the highest level. In this sense there was no distraction, carelessness, superficiality or carelessness in deciding how to proceed. Moreover, even intuition looks well turned and the original (Uneven method), combined with enormous capacity for empathy (Sinuous, pendant).
course, the scientific accuracy could not be his forte (excessive corners, excessive slope), and this also gives an account of what little credibility "2%", because it was objectively impossible, beyond the good will and the maximum capacity deployed, bringing the mortality of the time, for more in war conditions, to values \u200b\u200bso low (this is proved by the very high mortality rate that has affected the nurses that have accompanied it in the Crimea) .
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