Biography
The British submarine Florence Plantneyale became famous as a social reformer, statistics and founder of modern nursing. Having mastered the profession, unknown for representatives of the aristocratic society, during the years of the Crimean War, the woman occupied a prominent position at the front and was engaged in the organization of the care of wounded soldiers.
In peacetime, Florence founded the London School of Nurses and achieved improved medical services for all layers of British society. By writing a number of simple and affordable first-aid benefits, PlantNeleyl used social statistics methods and organized a collection of patient data that was widely used to analyze the situation in the country.
Childhood and youth
Florence Notenteyl was born on May 12, 1820 in Florence and received a name in honor of this ancient and picturesque place. The last name of the girl inherited from the Father-British, who accepted the coat of arms and the estate from the ancestors from the highest aristocratic circles. Parents, unlimited in the means, often traveled around the world, and the baby, together with three brothers and sister, childhood spent in the roads along expensive hotels located at different ends of the world.
Despite this, the young generation of the Plantneyaleov received a good education, and the girls on a par with the boys mastered Latin, ancient Greek, German and French. In addition, the father paid great attention to the diploma and accurate sciences and taught the children of mathematics and writing. With such knowledge, Florence has highlighted a lot against the background of other young aristocrats who have thought about a good party, house and luxurious life.
In the late 1830s, the girl entered the Higher Society of Paris and was represented by young people of noble origin. Parents tried to ensure the future of her daughter and did not assume that her balsions and techniques were not interested in. The only reason for which Florence appeared in the world was friendship with eccentric and advanced British Marie Clark.
A mature woman who despised hemishesiness, usually refused a frivolous society, preferring time to spend time in the company of men-intellectuals. However, Florence came to her with a tortured mind and strong character, which was allowed to adopt and divide the revolutionary idea of gender equality.
Communication with her friend influenced an overview aristocrat, and she decided to devote their own life to serving people and go to work as a nurse into a medicinal institution for the poor.
In England, this profession was considered unworthy and immoral, and women who cared for untenable patients were either alcoholis, or prostitutes. For these reasons, parents banned Florence to move in this direction, and at the first time, the obedient daughter treated with respect to such a decision.
Only in 1844, a matured girl rebelled against the role of his wife and mother allotted and declared indignant relatives about the hard intention to get a job.
Embed from getty imagesDespite the resistance of the family and public conventions, Florence worked hard to learn proper care for patients. She mastered this science in travels in Italy, Greece and Egypt. In the diary, the girl wrote that periodically I experienced the voice of God, who urged to sacrifice the reputation for good deeds.
Being a religious, Plantneyale, she listened to the command over and, being in the German Lutheran community, joined the local pastor treated with poor disadvantaged patients. This experience, on a par with a visit to the Church Institute in Kaiserverte, became a turning point in its biography and reflected an anonymous publication brought to his homeland in 1851.
Medicine and charity
By 1853, relatives were completed with the life of Florence and allowed her to take the position of superintendent in the London Institute for Sick Women of Noble Origin. The girl did not take fees for work, as the Father allocated her solid annual income on which you could continue my career and lead a comfortable life.Embed from getty imagesSo it continued until the fall of 1854 to the UK did not reach the terrible conditions in the front-line hospitals of the Crimean War. PlantNeleyl reacted to the information and as part of 38 nurses-volunteers and 15 nuns went on the sea in the Ottoman Empire.
After a long journey, the delegation was placed in the barracks of scouts, where indifferent and slow medical staff could not ensure proper care of wounded soldiers. As a result of a lack of medicines, dressing materials and equipment in therapeutic premises, an infection has been distributed, which increased the percentage of mortality among the military.
Medical sisters were not immediately able to independently correct the situation, but as a result, elementary hygiene helped reduce the number of sorew from 42% to 2%. In addition, Florence across the Times newspaper applied for help to the British government, and after six months the sanitary commission has created acceptable conditions for the affected - cleared the waste pits and improved ventilation.
Embed from getty imagesInteresting is the fact that the descendants who did not estimate the merit of the Notenteyl criticized the activities of the British Sister of Mercy. In 2001 and 2008, the BBC channel issued documentary films in which the importance of its activity was strongly understood. However, the authors of these stories could not not mention that when all the doctors went to the tents for the night for the night, Florence, who received a nickname lady with a lamp, continued to make a lonely bypass day.
Another indisputable achievement of Florence was the collection of statistics on patients of the hospital and systematic accounting of deaths and recovery. This experience was soon applied in the Civil Hospital of St. Thomas in London, where Plantneyale British organized the first school of professional nurses to the funds of the Charitable Fund.
Embed from getty imagesThe graduates of this school soon got a job in leading hospitals of Great Britain, Canada, Japan and the United States and were able to transfer the experience gained to other less qualified colleagues.
In 1883, Florence received the Order of the "Royal Red Cross" and the reward of the Hospital of St. John Jerusalem, and then became the first woman admitted to the closed society of outstanding citizens, organized in 1902 by the British monarch Edward VII.
Books
In the youth, Florence gained habit to record their own observations and statements of people who met during a foreign trip, as well as send long messages to the older sister, who described the acquired experience. It is these pages, anonymously published in London, and became the first literary experience of Plantneyale, who decided to combine a career of a medical sister and publicist.
Upon completion of the Crimean War, working as a mentor, Plantneyale on the basis of his own training program for hospital personnel wrote a book called "Note to Care", which has gained popularity and has become a detailed manual for the patronage at home.
Embed from getty imagesIn addition to the training material, the work contained a list of measures aimed at preventing diseases and prevent the dissemination of infections and epidemics.
This edition, published in the late 1850s, bought up hundreds of the British and eventually took the most important place in medicine and the history of the formation of a nursing case. Florence statistical research, provided mathematically organized data on the accounting of hospitalized patients, acquired great importance.
Were in her work and works of a religious nature that helped people find the truth and sort out themselves. In 1860, the 3-Tomnoy edition dedicated to the Church, God and their place in human life was partially published on its own funds Florence.
Personal life
In his youth, judging by the photographs and portraits, the Plantneyale was an attractive, slim and graceful girl. Although the behavior of the recalcitrant aristocrats was often called Surov, society believed that she was charming, educated and educated special.Embed from getty imagesMen did not go to Florence attentive, and the most insistent fan was a politician and poet Richard Moncton Milns. Plantneyale periodically met with a young man and led the relaxed secular conversations. After 9 years of courtship, the woman rejected the candidate on his hand and the heart, convinced that her husband, children and family worries would prevent her to follow the noble vocation of the nurse.
Do not conduct the boundaries between work and personal life, Florence sometimes experienced tender feelings to their own patients. Later, this psychological peculiarity of the behavior of doctors in honor of it was named with the effect or syndrome of the Planegeyl.
Death
In mature years, the health of the PlantNightyale was weakened by a zoonotic infection, known as Brucellia. Despite numerous symptoms that included depression and partial immobilization, the woman continued to lead the school nurses and was engaged in writing scientific and journalistic works.
Embed from getty imagesIn the early 1900s, performance sharply decreased, and due to blindness and violations of mental abilities, Most of the time Florence lay in bed, sometimes wondering the current affairs.
Plantneyale lived to deep old age and on August 13, 1910 in the 90th age, peacefully died in his own home. Relatives did not consider it necessary to establish the exact cause of death of the founder of the nursing school and buried the body in the Hampshire cemetery on the territory of the Church of St. Margarita.
Memory
2 years after the death of the woman, the International League of the Red Cross established the Florence medal, and her birthday was an international holiday of nurses.
In 1913, in the famous Florentine Basilica, Santa Croce installed a monument to Plantneyale, made by the sculptor Francis William Sargant from Carrarsky Marble, and then the monumental images of a woman appeared on the squares and streets of London.
In addition, the Museum dedicated to the biography and the work of a selfless nurse opened in the building of the British Hospital of St. Thoma, and the exposition is described about the Crimean period of life, located in Barracks Silimia in Istanbul.