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Florence Nightingale by Lytton Strachey BBA RTMNU
Long & Short Question & Answers
1. What kind of a family did Florence Nightingale hail from?
Florence Nightingale belonged to extremely well- to-do family and was connected by marriage with a spreading circle of other well -to do families. They had tours on the Continent. The family owned a large country house in Derbyshire and there was another in the New Forest. Her sister, her cousins, all the young ladles of her acquittance were either getting married or getting ready for marriage.
2. What was the general perception about nurses before Florence Nightingale arrive on the scene?
A nurse meant then a coarse old woman, always ignorant usually dirty, often brutal, a Mrs.Gamp in bunched up sordid garments, tippling at the brandy bottle or indulging in the worse irregularities. The nurses in the hospital were usually notorious for immortal conduct, sobriety was almost unknown among the nurses and they could not be trusted to carry out simple medical duties.
3. What kind of conditions did Florence find in the hospitals?
Florence found neglect confusion and misery in every shape and every degree in the hospital. The building was very defective and huge sewers were under the building and cesspools' loaded with filth waffled into the upper room. The floors were in a rotten condition and could not even be scrubbed. A thick layer of dirt was covering walls and numerous vermin swarmed everywhere. The building had no ventilation and it was dark all around No furniture could be found in the bedroom. The cooking conditions too were in a horrible state. No supplies of broom, soaps, towel, scissors, bandage, mops, trays, plates, spoon were available.
4. What changes did Florence Nightingale bring about in the hospitals?
The first change Florence brought was providing necessary objects like towels and soap, knives and fork's, combs and tooth brushes. The next thing she organized the kitchen and the laundries in the hospitals. She replaced the ill cooked hunks of meat by punctual meals, and proving extra foods like soups and wines and jellies. She ensured that physical needs were provided. For the mental and spiritual needs she set up and furnished reading rooms and recreation rooms. She started classes and lectures. The barracks and the hospitals were remodeled and were properly ventilated and warmed and lighted.
5. How did Nightingale's efforts lead to the remodeling of the barracks and the hospitals?
The barracks and the hospitals were remodeled, they were properly ventilated and warmed and lighted for the first time. The hospitals were given a water supply which actually supplied water, and kitchens where, strange to say it was possible to cook. Coffee rooms and reading room, gymnasium and workshops were instituted. workshops.
6. How did Florence Nightingale fulfill her singular purpose to do something?
Florence was driven to serve and minister the sick and the poor. She had a vision of heaven filled with suffering patients to whom she was serving. She was unhappy leading a life like her sisters or cousins and wanted to serve people. She did not want a husband and getting marriage was not her aim which her family wanted her to do. Finally after being restless when she was 16 years old she made up her mind to pursue nursing and in 184 much against her family's wishes Nightingale enrolled as a nursing students at the Lutheran Hospital in Germany. She served as a superintendent of a charitable nursing home in Harley Street. She worked for almost a year and then after the Crimean war broke she went to serve the wounded soldiers at Constantinople. She served as a nurse, as a manager, and trainer of nurses and improved the dilapidated condition of the hospital. She served with love and passion to the wounded soldiers at night taking a lamp in her handing . So she was called as 'The Lady with the Lamp'. This way she fulfilled her singular purpose of serving the sick by becoming a nurse.
7. What reforms did Florence Nightingale bring about in the military hospitals in Scutari in particular and later on in hospitals in general?
In particular she brought the following changes:
The first change Florence brought was providing necessary objects like towels and soap, knives and fork's, combs and tooth brushes. The next thing she organized the kitchen and the laundries in the hospitals. She replaced the ill cooked hunks of meat by punctual meals, and proving extra foods like soups and wines and jellies. She ensured that physical needs were provided. For the mental and spiritual needs she set up and furnished reading rooms and recreation rooms. She started classes and lectures. The barracks and the hospitals were remodeled and were properly ventilated and warmed and lighted.
General changes in the hospitals: Florence 'Notes on Hospitals' -1859 revolutionized the theory of hospital construction and hospital management. She contributed on how administration, management can lead to better infrastructure and help in recovery and reducing mortality rate. She is founder of modern nursing and opened up the Nightingale School for Nurses at St. Thomas Hospital in 1860.
8. Why did Lytton Strachey say that Florence Nightingale was heroic and the heroism was not made of sentimental but sterner stuff?
Lytton Strachey says Florence was heroic not in the sense that she was simple, and sentimental but she was a sterner stuff. She stood firm and spread her dominion over the serried and reluctant powers of the official world by her strict method by stern discipline by rigid attention to detail by ceaseless labor by fixed determination of an indomitable will. She was strong to face the administrative authority to bring order in the chaos in the Scutari hospitals. She was a gracious angel to the soldiers but she was a firm administrator to the authorities. So Lytton Strachey says Florence Nightingale was heroic.
9. Why does Strachey say that contrary to what Florence's mother said that they were ducks who hatched a swan, they had hatched an Eagle?
Mrs. Nightingale said to her husband that hey had hatched means given birth to an swan, She meant that they were ducks and expected their child to be just like them. But in reality Florence was altogether different from her parents. She was not the typical girl who took interest in going to Operas, parties, dancing and pleasure seeking. She was not like other girls in the family who looked for husband and thought of getting married. Her parents wanted her to be like all other sisters and cousins in the family. They felt she should get married and lead a social life. But Florence was totally different. She was driven by passion to serve the sick and marriage was not her goal. So her mother said that she was a swan different than ducks like them. The author Lytton says that she was not a swan but a eagle saying she had a higher calling and dream to fly high in the sky, not leading a simple life. She was on fire to serve the sick and she became an angel nurse serving the wounded soldiers of the Crimean war. Thus the author say she fulfilled her higher calling in life and so she soar high like an eagle.
Short Question & Answer
10. What was Florence Nightingale fondly called as?
Florence Nightingale was fondly called as 'The Lady With The Lamp'.
11. What did Florence's parents and the society around her expect her to do since she was brought up among such advantages?
Her parents expected that being born and brought up in a well-to-do family she would show a proper appreciation by doing her duty that is marrying an eligible gentleman and living happily afterwards.
12. What desire of her did Florence announce to her parents?
Florence announced her extreme desire to go to Salisbury Hospital for several month as a nurse and to set up in a house of her own in the neighboring village and founding something like Protestant Sisters without vows for women of educated feeling.
13. Why did Florence Nightingale's parents resist her desire to become a nurse?
Nurses were considered as notorious for immoral conduct and sobriety was not known to the So her parents resisted to take up a profession which is not respectable in the society.
14. What was the first job that Florence Nightingale took?
Florence joined as a superintendent of a charitable nursing home in Harley Street.
15. In what way did fate knock on Florence's door after she spent a year in a charitable nursing home?
Fate knocked at the door with the Crimean War breaking out, the battle of the Alma was fought and many wounded soldiers need nursing care.
16. During which war did Florence Nightingale's work propel her to recognition?
During the Crimean war Florence Nightingale's work propelled to recognition.
17. What change did Florence bring about in the diets of the patients in the Scutari hospitals?
Florence provided well cooked meals regularly along with strengthening extra foods soups and wines and jellies.
18. What facilities did Florence Nightingale provide to meet the mental and spiritual needs of the patients in Scutari Hospitals?
Florence set up and furnished reading rooms and recreation rooms. She started classes and lectures. This helped to meet the mental and spiritual needs of the patients.
19. What fields did Florence Nightingale's book Notes on Hospital revolutionize?
Florence Nightingale's book ' Notes on Hospitals' revolutionized the theory of hospital construction and hospital management.
20. The opening of which institute marked Florence Nightingale's becoming the founder of modern nursing?
With the opening of the Nightingale's Training School for Nurses at St. Thomas Hospital in 1860 she became founder of modern nursing.
Conclusion - BSC, BCCA English Students of RTMNU
FAQs on Florence Nightingale
1. Who is called the founder of modern nursing?
Florence Nightingale is called the founder of modern nursing.
2. Which city was Florence born?
Florence was born in the city of Florence in Italy.
3. In which war did Florence serve the soldiers?
In the Crimean war Florence served the wounded soldiers.
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