“The Lady Who Was Seen Carrying a Lamp”
Florence Nightingale was a nurse from the United Kingdom who worked in what is now Turkey. She is credited with establishing the standards and principles that would later come to define the modern nursing profession. Patients passing away in the hospital due to uncleanliness and low hygiene standards are very unusual. Patients who were already struggling for their lives were put in further danger by the faeces of rats and other pests.
There was a severe lack of both food and water. After seeing the connection between cleanliness and patient well-being, Nightingale moved immediately to organise a comprehensive hospital cleaning. She instituted straightforward hygienic practices such as washing her hands frequently to stop the contagiousness of dangerous infections. As a result of the forward-thinking health care reforms that she instituted, the number of patients who passed away in the hospital fell. In addition to preventing the loss of life, this resulted in a heightened understanding of the significance of having well-trained nurses.