Florence Nightingale: her legacy our inspiration.
Florence Nightingale was a British nurse, social reformer, and statistician considered the founder of modern nursing. She was born on May 12, 1820, in Florence, Italy, and died on August 13, 1910, in London, England.
Nightingale became famous during the Crimean War when she and a team of nurses organized the care of wounded soldiers in the field hospitals of Scutari (Turkey). She introduced new and innovative practices, such as keeping hospital wards clean, providing patients with nutritious food and water, and dispensing individualized care.
She created innovative data visualization methods, such as the polar area diagram (a rose diagram), to show the importance of hygiene and clean water in preventing hospital disease. She also created statistical models to demonstrate how improving these factors could reduce mortality rates; this drastically reduced the death rate among soldiers from 42% to 2% in six months.
In addition to her work during the war, Nightingale also revolutionized nursing by advocating proper training for nurses and publishing books on nursing theory and practice. She founded the Nightingale School of Nursing Education at St. Thomas's Hospital in London, becoming a nurse education model worldwide.
Nightingale rescued an owl named Athena when she visited the Greek Acropolis. In Greek mythology, Athena is the goddess of wisdom, courage, and inspiration. Athena became Florence's inseparable companion and liked to sit on her shoulder or in her pocket.
The relationship between Florence and Athena symbolizes the importance of wisdom and intelligence in health care. This legacy has inspired the name of our technology; the Florence monitor and Athena probe continuously measure the gastric mucosa in critically ill patients; this information can help healthcare professionals make early decisions in their treatment.
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