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Bicentenario del nacimiento de Florence Nightingale

By Jordi Bou

May 12, 2020 - Florence Nightingale, la fundadora de la enfermería moderna, nació
hace 200 años. Su enfoque del cuidado de los soldados heridos y el entrenamiento de enfermeras en el siglo XIX salvaron y mejoraron incontables vidas. Actualmente, cuando los países de todo el mudo luchan para hallar formas de combatir la pandemia de coronavirus, sus ideas sobre cuidados de la salud y buena higiene tienen mayor trascendencia que nunca.

Florence was born to a wealthy English family on May 12, 1820, in Florence, Italy, and named after the city. She became famous as a result of her innovations in nursing care at Scutari hospital in modern-day Istanbul, where she treated British soldiers wounded in the Crimean War, in which British, French and Ottoman forces fought the Russian Empire.

Every night she would make rounds through the camps, checking on each soldier, a practice that saw her nicknamed the “Lady with the Lamp”.

In a filthy hospital set up in a barracks on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus, she saw thousands of soldiers die from infectious diseases rather than their wounds, prompting her to try and improve conditions.

As a child, Nightingale excelled in mathematics and science, and her father introduced her to a leading practitioner of statistics, then a new academic field. During and after the Crimean War, Nightingale used statistics as a way of proving the effectiveness of different interventions.

She produced her famous “rose” diagrams, which demonstrated the high proportion of deaths caused by disease as opposed to battle wounds. As a result of this work, she became the first woman admitted to the London Statistical Society, in 1858.

By the time Florence Nightingale died, aged 90, in 1910, a revolution in health care had taken place.

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PUBLISHED: 01/05/2020; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Newscom, National Portrait Gallery, AP, Getty Images
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