Florence Nightingale

Introduction A human service is a non-profit organization or effort that renders the services for human needs. We should believe that human services is the greatest gift for anyone else and even too your own self satisfaction. This profession offers the assistance needed to manage with primary and social human needs. It is the person’s own will that raise him to pay services for human welfare and help needy people for their survival. Under the human service profession, Florence Nightingale is the most famous in its history. She is a great statistician and social reformer, and the initiator of contemporary nursing. Florence Nightingale came into prominence, when she served with her team in the history event of Crimean War. In this combat, she tended to injured soldiers.

Discussion During the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale and her staff of thirty eight volunteer trained nurses, with the inclusion of Mai Smith, her aunt were sent off to the Empire of Ottoman. All service providers were spread about 295 nautical miles, where the major camp of British was grounded. Florence arrived early and her team members discovered that wounded soldiers were being delivered poor care by exploited medical staff. On that occasion, it has been observed that hygiene was being neglected; medicines were in short supply, and number of infections was commonly rising, in which many of them were incurable. The patients had no equipment to process food for badly injured. After watching the whole situation, Florence sent a humble request to the government for the resolution of extreme worst condition and poor facilities. In the result, the British Government commissioned designed a preassembled hospital that can be constructed in England and shipped to the Dardanelles. This initial showed its worth in the shape of lowering the death rate than 1/10th in the Renkioi Hospital, which is the civilian facility. It has been found in the first edition of the Dictionary of National Biography (1911) that Florence decreased the death rate from 42 to 2 percent; by both calling the sanitary commission and making improvement in hygiene by her own self. However, the death rates were getting high in most of the highest hospitals of the regions. At the time of her first winter at Scutari, there were 4,077 soldiers died, in which most of the soldiers died from sicknesses like dysentery, cholera, typhoid, and typhus, instead of wounds got by battle. In March 1855, Sanitary Commission had to be sent out by the British government to Scutari, by watching lack of ventilation and overloading defective sewers. This step was taken after the six months of Florence arrival. This commission improved ventilation and flushed out the sewers. Undoubtedly, the death rates greatly declined but she never claimed hygiene as a cause of death and the reason to reduce the rate of death. After the arrival to Britain, Florence started gathering evidences before the health of Army. Florence also believed that many of the soldiers were kill by poor living conditions at the hospital. This drastic experience becomes the reason of great influence throughout her career.

Conclusion The whole historical study of Florence Nightingale is the tremendous example for learning about human service profession. It reflects how a lady takes different initiatives and wanted to go in the depth of the cause. She still conceived that the reason of death rate was due to worst and poor nutrition, overworking or soldiers and lack of supplements.
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Florence Nightingale and Lynn McDonald (2010). "An introduction to Vol 14". Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War. Wilfrid Laurier University Press.