Key Influences In Nursing

Nursing is considered by many that they are the face of healthcare and the supporting pillars who play an important role of caring for individuals of a wide, multicultural and diverse community. In modern society, it is also viewed as a highly respected profession as they administer care while multitasking different duties. In the past, nursing was identified to be a “disreputable occupation” (Strickler, 2017). In this essay, the discussion of two key influences that have shaped healthcare/healthcare access in contemporary Australian society. The key influences consist of the historical founder of nursing, Florence Nightingale, and the power of how technology has transformed the way nursing, some technology includes the Telehealth, Electronic
The development of nursing is evidently from the influence of historical practices and how things differed from current and the past. Although there are many subcategories of how, what and who have impacted on how nursing is formed today. The greatest influence in the topic of history is the figure of the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale. Florence Nightingale gained fame and recognition during the Crimean War (1853-1856) at an overseas hospital of the British army, where newspaper reports stated of poor unsanitary conditions. However, when she and her team arrived it was deemed to be far worse than the reports in the newspapers (Winkelstein, 2009). Florence Nightingale was the first person to be able to distinguish and explain what the true role of nursing was. She was the one who brought the need of a improved and sanitary environment to the practice of cleanliness in her early life of being stationed at Barack Hospital in Scurtari. Others would say that historical events such as wars, are the greatest influences, however without figures like Florence Nightingale, it is not possible to achieve the best development of nursing practice as within 6 months, she and 38 other nurses were able to reduce
In 1860, the Nightingale Training School at St Thomas’ in London was established, it was the first nursing school that Nightingale had developed to educate and train others in nursing to the highest expertise. Furthermore, the establishment of this school by Nightingale has heavily influenced the way of Australia’s healthcare’s standards as the number of people who attended her school had brought their knowledge and training experience to Australia. Therefore, bringing up Australia’s health standards upon sanitation, nutritional diets and the need to create more space in the working environment. Although, Florence Nightingale has created a vast influence to the overall healthcare system and the way of how she had affected the way of how nursing should be to Registered Nurses, it was not the only influence that had a major impact to the development of healthcare and the practice of