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From an early age, Florence Nightingale had a desire to care for the sick and wounded, and later dedicated her life to nursing and health reform. Her work created a new approach to health statistics, improved hospital sanitation, and provided a teaching tool for nurses, according to J.J. O'Connor and E.F. Robertson's article "Florence Nightingale." As a member of the upper class, Florence Nightingale received education in many subjects, including mathematics, according to VictorianWeb.org. One of her mentors, Belgian scientist Quetelet, applied statistical methods to moral and social sciences, according to O'Connor and Robertson. While serving as a nurse during the Crimean War, Nightingale calculated mortality rates of soldiers and was able to prove that improved sanitary methods would lead to a decrease in the number of deaths. Soldiers were seven times more likely to die of a contagious disease such as typhoid or cholera than on the battlefield, according to O'Connor and Robertson. Nightingale invented polar-area charts--similar to pie charts--which were revolutionary at the time. These charts displayed mortality rates during the Crimean War from 1854 to1856, according to O'Connor and Robertson. Her figures showed that if the morality rates due to these diseases continued, disease would kill the entire British Army in Crimea. Upon returning to England after the war, Nightingale discovered that soldiers ages 20 to 35 had double the mortality rates of civilians during peacetime. She campaigned for sanitary reform in all military hospitals, according to O'Connor and Robertson. She wrote "Notes on Nursing," the first textbook for educating nurses, according to O'Connor and Robertson. Nightingale advised the Canadian government as well as the United States government during the Civil War about health care, according to VictorianWeb.org. Victorian Web: Florence NightingaleHistory
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by JPsgirl on November 10th, 2010
She moved the refrigerator and yelled, "Oh! There's that grocery list I've been looking for!"
by Scotslass on May 28th, 2010
What did Florence Nightingale discover? I thought she was a famous nurse!
by I'm Just Along For The Ride on December 11th, 2010
she was indeed a nurse who went beyond the call of duty....and also had a very wonderful bedside manner in other ways with her male patients..:D
by Temporary Name on August 7th, 2010
WHICH FRIGGIN DISCOVERY ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT??
by Twisted Taco on May 28th, 2010
The discover that her husband was cheating on her?
by paulschiffman on August 20th, 2011
she study medicine
by Piano Player on December 31st, 2011
EVEN BETTER THAN GREAT ANSWER! Genuinely Researched, unlike the crappy Answerbag Staff answer!
This is a STUPID question that is ambiguous and poorly worded, as is typical of Answerbag staff questions.
Which discovery would that be?, an educated and intelligent person might reasonably ask. But ooh, no, you won't be around to answer such a question, will you. You already crowned your wrong answer with the "Great Answer" crest, didn't you, you little small-minded staffperson you.
Well one of Florence's discoveries, and perhaps the most important, was the importance of professional nursing. Contrary to your WRONG answer. "one of Nightingale's signal achievements was the introduction of trained nurses into the workhouse system in England and Ireland from the 1860s onwards. This meant that sick paupers were no longer being cared for by other, able-bodied paupers, but by properly trained nursing staff. This innovation may be said to herald the establishment of the National Health Service in Britain, forty years after Nightingale's death."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale
Ah, but you, being an Answerbag Staffperson, won't be around to read this answer, now will you. What a pity. After you pat yourself on the back and lay yourself down for a nap you simply lie there with that pathetic smug smile on your little face.
by Petersen1 on August 16th, 2011
For his talent & honest
by I'm Just Along For The Ride on April 4th, 2011
Florence Nightingale was an extraordinary nurse..who took care of her male patients especially well. The horizontal mambo was many times part of the treatment.:)
by ganjaman407 on June 16th, 2010
What discovery???
by boris f. pallominy on April 11th, 2011
When she was caring for the wounded soldiers during the Crimean War.
by Texaspete on July 23rd, 2011
What discovery? She was a nurse.
How did Florence Nightingale make her discovery?
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How f**king lame.
Someone who's a shill for the site and whose credential are "was on yearbook staff in high school" gets a Great Anwswer from the AB staff that asked the question.
So, since you guys are having to generate your own traffic looks like business may be off a bit.
Good bye. We had two great years-out of three.
by Possum on September 15th, 2010
Actually, she didn't make it. Nightingale's 'discovery', along with all the credit for reforming the British Army's abysmal medical system, should actually go to another woman, whose name escapes me at present, who spent her entire life pretending to be a man, and who one of the most innovative physicians of her era. (Her godfather, one of Napoleon's generals, believed that her exceptional intellect would not be allowed to flower as a woman in the society of the day, so he encouraged her to masquerade as a male in her early adolescence). She worked as an Army doctor, and left the Crimea shortly before Nightengale's arrival, dying soon thereafter. When she did, it was discovered that she was not a man, and polite society quietly forget her, while Nightengale, with excellent social connections, was able to claim credit for everything herself.
by Joseph_S4551 on January 25th, 2011
People are dim. She killed more soldiers than she saved by a wide margin.
by William_J5551 on July 23rd, 2011
That comment about killing more than she cured is true; the death rate in the hospital rose dramatically after she started working there
by Gertha_H on October 18th, 2011