intellectual force to be reckoned with, and if that was true, then perhaps all females had the same potential. This was quite possibly what attracted most female followers to her, the idea that they could follow in her footsteps. Since the death of Florence Nightingale in 1910, her legacy of superior nursing and medicinal care has lived on. An adaptation of the Hippocratic oath, which all doctors must take to practice medicine, was created for nurses and named the Nightingale Pledge, which was first used in the spring of 1893 . Although Nightingale is believed to have had no input or knowledge of its content, the connection of admiration for her work is clear. Nurses today are still modeled under Nightingale’s code of ethics and knowledge. It was Nightingale’s work in the Crimean War, where she was first discovered that lead to this legacy of medicinal practice. Florence Nightingale was a commendable woman. Her motivation to work her skills was only to heal the ill and better the standards of hospitals around the world. Nightingale’s ideals became reality only through her hard work and her innate determination to save lives and cure illnesses. Furthermore, Nightingale overcame the barrier of gender stereotypes. The assumption that a woman could never perform spectacular feats such as these was eradicated through Nightingale’s achievements. Not only did Florence Nightingale change the status of the medicinal practice of her time, but also for generations to come; the female gender was never regarded in the same manner again due to the accomplishments of Florence Nightingale. ...
