Florence Nightingale (May 12, 1820 – August 13, 1910) was a celebrated British social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She came to prominence while serving as a nurse during the Crimean war, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She recorded statistics on epidemic typhus in the English civilian and military populations. In 1858, she published a thousand-page report using statistical comparisons to demonstrate that diseases, poor food, and unsanitary conditions were killing…
In her early life, Nightingale mentored other nurses, known as Nightingale Probationers, who then went to one also work to make safer, healthier hospitals. In 1894, Nightingale trained several of the volunteer nurses who served along with her in the Crimean War. These nurses be leaning to the injured soldiers and sent reports back regarding the position of the troops. Nightingale and her nurses reformed the hospital so that clean tools was always available and reorganized patient care. Nightingale soon realized that many of the soldiers were dying because of unsanitary living conditions, and, after the war, she worked to improve livelihood conditions. While she was at war, the Florence Nightingale Fund for the Training of Nurses was established in her honor. After the war, Nightingale wrote Notes on Nursing and opened the Women’s Medical College with Dr. Elizabeth…
Nursing was for the undesirables. “Ill individuals were taken care of by “sinners, saints, or mothers” “(lc.gcumedia.com, 2013). Florence Nightingale was born in a wealthy English family and had educational opportunities; however she would still often find herself wanting to help the poor. Soon after completion of nursing school she travelled to the Crimea War. There she suggested there were “five essential components to an optimal healing environment; pure air, pure water, efficient drainage, cleanliness and light” (Kelly, 2012, p. 2397). With those changes alone the mortality rate decreased and the meaning of nursing was forever changed into what we know today.…
In the mid of 19th century Florence Nightingale started her mission to improve health care and create nursing as a profession. From her own experience and observations during Crimean War she became urgent to decrease high at this time mortality rate. As McDonald (2001) noted “Nightingale returned from the Crimean War with a conviction that the desperate loss of life she witnessed should never occur again” (p.68).…
Florence Nightingale was a young and talented woman. Who, she had to overcome to outstand her wishes to become a nurse, at least from the family. She had become the first woman for the nursing field. During the Victorian Era one was obligated to marry within their social class and obtain a job within their given range. By the age of 16 that was when she realized that nursing is calling upon her name and stating that’s her duty to become one. As opposed to her family wishes she had decided to join as a nursing student in 1844, at the Lutheran Hospital of Pastor Fliedner in Kaiserswerth, Germany.During the Crimean war in the early 1850s, Nightingale had returned to London where she took a nursing job in a Middlesex hospital. During the late 1854, Nightingale received a letter from Secretary of War Sidney Herbert, asking her to organize a corps of nurses to tend to the sick and fallen soldiers in the Crimea.…
Florence Nightingale is one of the most highly influential individuals in nursing history. She was a leader at heart and used her educational and social background to enhance the medical field by improving quality of life for patients in the hospital. When faced with the horrible conditions of military hospitals in the Crimean War, she became an advocate for the soldiers by writing letters requesting more medical supplies, cleaning equipment, clothing, heaters, water boilers, clean linens, and proper food. Though at times she was denied, she never stopped writing letter and documenting facts to prove that these changes were needed. Florence began to organize the hospitals, which created an easier and more efficient environment for both the medical staff and the patients. She also cleaned and sanitized the hospital while instilling the need for both clean nursing practices and a clean environment to provide adequate care. Florence started the standard for clean hospitals and built the foundation for nursing actions we know…
Nursing is a job we would consider a very selfless job. It’s a job that requires you to be at your best at every moment because someone’s life or well-being is depending on you. Long shifts may get you tired, you may not have a lunch break because you are working non-stop but you could care less. All you care about is impacting the lives of others. You are constantly putting others before yourself. Well in this case Florence Nightingale was the person who did just that. Florence Nightingale was born on May 12 in the year of 1820 in Florence Italy. Her parents named her after the Italian cities in Italy. In her early teens Florence discovered that she wanted to become a nurse not just because she wanted to do it, but the simple fact that she had got a “calling from God” to do God’s work. Florence’s parents did not want her to pursue the career in being a nurse because they did not make as much during those days. But this didn’t stop her she continued to fulfill her dreams at the age of 17 and was determined not to get distracted for…
Florence Nightingale advocated for nursing by creating standards of care and educating nurses to improve health care for patients. She collected information and used statistics while caring for patients to promote their health. Her analysis of patient care led to an improved patient environment, changing it from unsanitary to a more sanitary environment which promoted health and well-being (Selanders, 2012). Her leadership in the profession led to establishing her own school of nursing in England which in turn prompted schools in America. This leadership paved the way for nurses to become leaders in a respected profession (Selanders,…
Historically the role of the nurse has been as a patient advocate. Nurses’ have advanced from being seen as low cost labor to an autonomous practioner. Prior to Florence Nightingale the nurse was a member of a religious order or under the direction of the military. Florence Nightingale established the first nursing schools and was responsible for their own practice. In the early 1900’s nursing education was taken over by hospitals and the licensing of nurses began. In the 1990’s nurse practioners, (under the license of a physician), began prescribing medications, ordering lab and radiology test, and referring patients to other health care providers (Nursing: history of nursing, 2012).…
Nightingale, F. (1860).Notes on nursing: what it is and what it is not. New York:D.Appleton And Company.…
Florence Nightingale was born into a wealthy British family at the Villa Colombaia in Florence, Italy. She was inspired by what she thought to be a divine calling. At the age of 17 at Embley Park, Nightingale made a commitment to nursing and human healthcare. This decision demonstrated strong will on her part in that she was willing to go beyond normality. It had constituted a rebellion against the expected role for women at that time, which was to become an obedient and humble wife. Nursing was a career with a poor reputation during that period of time. It was filled mostly by poor women, called "hangers-on", who had followed the armies when in war or in hardship. Nightingale announced her decision about nursing to her family in 1845,…
Post 1853 Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War set about establishing clean water, personal hygiene programs, nourishing food chains, medical supplies, as well as using the natural sunlight to help the soldiers to recover. “With Nightingale the focus was on nurses working systematically in the environment of healthcare, healing and restoring people to health.”(Potter and Perry 1993,pp.208-209)…
Florence realized when she was only sixteen years old that she wanted to be a nurse. She believed it to be her purpose in life. Florence decided to rebel against the traditional woman’s role of being a stay at home wife and mother. When she approached her parents about her dreams of becoming a nurse, they were not at all pleased and forbid her from going into the field.…
Historically, a career in Nursing has not always been one that was respected as a noble and honorable job. Once frowned upon by the elite classes, nursing was a job expected of the lower class. In 1853 however, a young woman belonging to an elite British family, named Florence Nightingale, would change that. From a young age, she believed that her divine purpose in life was to care for the ill and wounded. After reforming healthcare during the Crimean War and dedicating her life to her career, she became the pioneer of modern nursing. Florence Nightingale cared tirelessly for her patients, even walking the halls at night, using only an oil lamp, to…
Nightingale, F. (1869). Notes on nursing: what it is and what it is not. New York: Dover Publications.…