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  2. Germ theory's key 19th century figures - Wikipedia

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    Florence Nightingale Though she was a mathematician and statistician, she was asked by the British secretary of war to join a nursing service during The Crimean War . [ 5 ] When Nightingale arrived in Scutari, Turkey , the conditions of the British army hospital were gruesome and putrid. [ 5 ]

  3. Contagious Diseases Acts - Wikipedia

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    Similar to Florence Nightingale’s approach mentioned above, Dr. Charles Bell Taylor and William Paul Swain released a paper in 1869 on their observations of the Acts, in which they criticized the lack of police investigation or evidence required to bring women into a lock hospital or asylum. They argued that it was incredibly unfair that the ...

  4. Nightingale Hospital - Wikipedia

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    NHS COVID-19 critical care hospitals, sometimes referred to as "Nightingale Hospitals" (of which a subset are) St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK; the hospital at which Florence Nightingale taught Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, the hospital teaching faculty that Florence Nightingale established

  5. NHS Nightingale Hospital North West - Wikipedia

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    The NHS Nightingale Hospital North West was the third of the temporary NHS Nightingale Hospitals set up by NHS England in 2020 to help to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. It was closed in March 2021. It was closed in March 2021.

  6. Nightingale's environmental theory - Wikipedia

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    She stated in her nursing notes that nursing "is an act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery" (Nightingale 1860/1969), [2] that it involves the nurse's initiative to configure environmental settings appropriate for the gradual restoration of the patient's health, and that external factors associated with the patient's surroundings affect life or biologic ...

  7. Royal Herbert Hospital - Wikipedia

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    The hospital was built on the authority of Sidney Herbert, responsible for sending Florence Nightingale to the Crimea, leader of War Office reforms after this campaign, and passionate about health care and reducing military mortality rates from diseases and ill-treated war wounds.

  8. Florence Nightingale - Wikipedia

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    Florence Nightingale (/ ˈ n aɪ t ɪ ŋ ɡ eɪ l /; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing.Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. [4]

  9. NHS Nightingale Hospital North East - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] They have been named "Nightingale Hospitals", after Florence Nightingale who came to prominence for nursing soldiers during the Crimean War and is regarded as the founder of modern nursing. [3] On 12 October, 2020 amidst a rise in cases in Northern England, the hospital was placed on standby. [4]