Legacy
National Health ServiceSome claim that Nightingale’s success in the Crimean War helped create the National Health Service in 1948. Florence Nightingale pushed “Victorian England into a burst of social progress that may justify a claim that the pioneering National Health Service was born on the floor of the Scutari Barrack Hospital.” -Hugh Small
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Nursing as a ProfessionHer success in the Crimean War led to many more opportunities for people to become professional nurses. "Establishing nursing as a separate occupation or profession, parallel to medicine yet independent of and not subordinate to it, was an imperative for Nightingale for several reasons. Women needed careers, with adequate salaries that were sufficient to support dependent children or relatives as well as themselves, job satisfaction and fulfillment." -Lynn McDonald, The Nightingale School
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Red CrossNightingale inspired the founder of the Red Cross.
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Metropolitan Poor ActNightingale wanted a law passed to amend the abuses in the workhouses. In the law, Nightingale wanted:
"1. To separate distinctly the sick from the able-bodied and casuals; 2. To separate distinctly the permanent invalids and aged from the able-bodied and casuals; 3. The same as regards children. Then to provide suburban institutions: (1) for sick; (2) for infirm, aged and invalids; (3) industrial schools for children." -Florence Nightingale, Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care After many attempts at trying to get a bill passed, Gathorne Hardy, the successor of a friend of Lord Palmerston, the Prime Minister, succeeded with the Metropolitan Poor Act, which addressed some but not all of Nightingale's criteria. |