Nightingale and Hospital Reform Influences
Kristin Buhnemann2020-03-15T13:31:46+00:00Nightingale recognised how hospital design could impact revcovery.
Nightingale recognised how hospital design could impact revcovery.
Nightingale was considered a leading expert on hospital design
British civil engineer known for his ground-breaking designs.
Often referred to as the first female sociologist.
Nightingale was passionate about reducing rates of infections.
This important and widely-read publication helped to spread Nightingale’s ideas.
Nightingale produced numerous other statistical graphs and charts
Created in 1859 as a charity hospital for the ‘sick poor’.
Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician.
Known as a rose diagram but commonly called ‘coxcomb’
Nightingale was not popular with everyone.
Nightingale was passionate about good hospital architecture and design.
Jowett believed strongly in the use of statistics in medicine.
Promoting the use of statistical data for the public good
Nightingale was ahead of her time when it came to patient wellbeing.
Nightingale was raised to believe that diseases were caused by ‘miasma’.
British Liberal MP, philanthropist and social reformer.
One of the founders of medical statistics.