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The Crimea had left its mark on Florence. Contracting
"Crimean Fever" her health was never the same. Despite
that though, she continued to use her influence to change
the health care in Britain.
She studied the design of hospitals with many architects
and doctors asking for her advice. Florence believed that
hospitals needed separate wings connected by corridors. It
was known as the "Pavillion Style." The first newly built
hospital to adopt her suggestions was the military hospital
at the Woolwich barracks in east London. Soon others
would follow including the rebuilt St Thomas' Hospital.
Money was raised by the public to train even more nurses.
The Nightingale nurses would eventually lead the
reformation of nursing under Florence's image.
Nightingale would also write about nursing. Notes on
Nursing would become a best seller. Many families owned
their own copy studying the advice of the "Lady with the
Lamp" in order to help and nurse their own families. She
would become a prolific writer writing some 200 books,
pamphlets and articles.
It is with this that her legacy lives on. From hospital
layouts to the nursing practices that we receive today. All
of which were the product of Florence Nightingale.
"If a patient is
cold, if a patient
is feverish, if a
patient is faint, if
he is sick after
taking food, if he
has a bed-sore, it
is generally the
fault not of the
disease...but of
the nursing."
Florence Nightingale