[Music] Florence Nale was a pioneer of Public Health and the founder of modern nursing because of Florence Nightingale nursing is one of the most regulated and respected professions in the world named after her city of birth Florence Italy Florence Nightingale was born on May 12th 1820 into an upper class British family as a woman of her time and her class it would have been expected that she would marry maintain a lovely home and be a Hostess but Florence Nightingale had very different plans though at the time nursing was not a respected profession Nightingale felt very called to become a nurse at age 24 night Andale defied her parents expectations to marry a suitable match and left England to study at the Kaiser worth Hospital in dorf Germany when she returned from Germany she took a job as a nurse at a hospital in London and she was eventually promoted after only a year to be head of nursing there she improved sanitary conditions so much that she garnered a reputation as a reformer and as an advocate for public health during the Crimean War the British press made public the horrendous conditions of the wounded soldiers in Turkey the Army turned to Florence Nightingale for help Sydney Herbert secretary at War reached out directly to Nightingale when Nightingale and her band of nurses arrived at scutari the hospital in the Crimea they were shocked at what they found the field hospitals were positioned on pools of puted water patients were lying in their filth more soldiers were dying from infections than they were from wounds sustained on the battlefield many of the reforms that Florence Nightingale instituted were quite revolutionary Nightingale insisted that there' be fresh air and water for all the soldiers that recuperating soldiers receive healthy food to eat to help make them better and that all of the bandages and sheets and blankets were adequately laundered each day by the time she was done Florence n Andale had succeeded in reducing the death rate Within These military hospitals by 2/3 known as the angel of the Crimea n Andale returned to England and received a hero's welcome a medal from Queen Victoria and a gift of $250,000 she devoted the rest of her life to affecting change in medical care in 1860 Florence Nightingale founded at St Thomas Hospital in London the Nightingale training school for nurses she was a Pioneer in the use of cuttingedge statistical methods of the time to design hospitals and Medical Systems to maximize the health of the community at large this really helped her to make her message known to the parliamentarians and government agencies who would make important decisions about hospitals and Healthcare in her later years Nightingale was officially honored by Germany France Norway and numerous prestigious British societies she died at her London home on August 13th 1910 the fact that we have a nursing profession today is in large part thanks to the work of Florence ningo Mark Twain is now thought of as America's first celebrity because he was so good at capturing the public imagination and it became important to him to have a Public Image