Answer:
She is known as the founder of modern nursing for her valuable contributions both in hospitals in Britain and in field hospitals in wars
Explanation:
In 1853 she became a nurse supervisor at a charity hospital in London, where she introduced efficient technical and organizational innovations; With his work he began to overcome the traditional care model, based on good feelings and religious sectarianism, and replaced by scientific health care, which required a rigorous training of nurses.
In 1854-56 he became famous by organizing a nurses service for British soldiers of the Crimean War: in the field hospital of Usküdar or Escútari (Turkey) he achieved spectacular health improvements, facing the prejudices of military doctors and poverty means that the army used to treat soldiers. He regularly visited the wounded during the night, which earned him the nickname "the lady of the lamp."
Upon his return to England, he took advantage of that popularity to exert influence in the high spheres of power, obtaining the support of Queen Victoria I. He published an exhaustive report entitled Notes on health, efficacy and hospital administration in the British Army (1858 ), and, deploying a frantic activity, he achieved the reform of British military health, the progressive extension of his model to civil health, the introduction of health reforms in India and the creation of a nurses school (1860). Since 1861, however, he remained retired due to health problems, as a result of the effort made during the Crimean War.
