A ranar 21 ga Oktoba, 1854, ita da ma'aikatan jinya 38 mata masu aikin sa kai ciki har da shugabar ma'aikaciyar jinya Eliza Roberts da innarta Mai Smith, da kuma 'yan nun Katolika 15 an aika zuwa Daular Ottoman .Nightingale ya isa Barracks Selimiye a Scutari a farkon Nuwamba 1854. Tawagarta ta gano cewa ma'aikatan kiwon lafiya da suka wuce gona da iri suna ba da kulawar rashin kulawa ga sojojin da suka ji rauni sakamakon rashin kulawar hukuma.Magunguna sun yi karanci, ana yin watsi da tsafta, kuma an yi ta fama da cututtuka masu yawa, yawancinsu suna mutuwa.Babu kayan aikin sarrafa abinci ga marasa lafiya.Bayan da Nightingale ya aike da roko ga jaridar The Times don neman mafita daga gwamnati game da rashin kyawun kayan aikin, Gwamnatin Burtaniya ta ba Isambard Kingdom Brunel aikin tsara wani asibiti da aka riga aka kera wanda za a iya ginawa a Ingila kuma a tura shi zuwa Dardanelles.Sakamakon ya kasance Asibitin Renkioi, wurin farar hula wanda, a ƙarƙashin kulawar Edmund Alexander Parkes, yana da adadin mutuwar ƙasa da kashi ɗaya bisa goma na na Scutari.Stephen Paget a cikin Dictionary of National Biography ya tabbatar da cewa Nightingale ya rage yawan mace-mace daga kashi 42% zuwa 2%, ko dai ta hanyar inganta tsafta da kanta, ko kuma ta yin kira ga Hukumar Tsabtace.Alal misali, Nightingale ta aiwatar da wanke hannu da sauran ayyukan tsabta a asibitin yaƙi da ta yi aiki a ciki.