title: Year of the Nurse: Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Florence Nightingale.
abstract: When she and her 40 nurses arrived in Scutari in November 1854, she found a dilapidated Barrack Hospital (a quadrangle building with four floors, one-half mile long on each side);scarce medical supplies, linens, and food;unsanitary conditions;a vermin infestation;a contaminated water supply;and a medical staff leader who did not see the need for nurses When she returned home from the Crimea 21 months later, hospital conditions and the mortality rate had greatly improved, and the image of nurses 
journal: PubMed