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…
Florence Nightingale was the founder of modern nursing, it started during the Crimean War. She had a team of nurses improve the unhealthy conditions at a british hospital, which also reduced death by two thirds.…
Kelly, J. (2012). Editorial: What has Florence Nightingale ever done for clinical nurses?. Journal Of Clinical Nursing, 21(17/18), 2397-2398. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2702.2010.03455.x…
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).…
In scene one, Florence Nightingale showed the characteristic of being determined. Florence Nightingale is determined because she knew her sister Parthenope and her parents wouldn’t support her decision to be a nurse, but she would still continue to accomplish what she wanted. In the 1800s women weren't as respected as men. Florence Nightingale didn’t let…
Today Florence Nightingale isn’t alive, but there’s a Florence Nightingale Museum, which sits at the site of the original Nightingale Training School for nurses with more than 2,000 artifacts demonstrating the life and career of the “Angel of the Crimea.” To this day, Florence Nightingale is broadly acknowledged and revered as the pioneer of modern nursing. Christopher J. Gill and Gillian C. Gill, critics believe Florence Nightingale is an important person that has impacted in American History. “We argue that Florence Nightingale's influence today extends beyond her undeniable impact on the field of modern nursing to the areas of infection control, hospital epidemiology, and hospice…
Monti and Tingen (1999) Nursing scientists are often in disagreement about the paradigms of nursing; however are in general agreement about the metaparadigms. A metaparadigm is a global description of the main concepts of a specific discipline. The main metaparadigm concepts of nursing are person, environment, nursing, and health (Monti & Tingen, 1999). Nightingale made correlations between the environment (the unsanitary conditions in Scutari) and person (Crimean soldiers) and then worked to correct those conditions to improve the health of the soldiers and redefined nursing as a dignified profession.…
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,…
Florence Nightingale is well known for not only founding modern nursing, but also for starting the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing, and for her famous contribution in the Crimean war.…
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…
On 7th February 1837, when she was 16 years, old Florence was convinced that she had heard the voice of God calling to her. She believed that God wanted her to carry out some special work. When she was in her twenties Florence began to take an interest in how the sick people in the villages around her home (in Romsey, Hampshire) were taken care of. She started to believe that God wanted her to be a nurse. Her parents were both shocked and angry when she told them that she wanted to learn more about nursing at a Salisbury hospital. At the time nearly all nurses came from poor families. Florence and some of her friends visited Kaiserwerth (in what is now Germany). The town was home to a hospital famous for training nurses. One year later, in 1851, Florence Nightingale received three months training at the hospital in Kaiserwerth. Florence returned home as a trained nurse. She put these skills to good use as from 1851 – 1853 she cared for her mother, father and sister who had all become ill.In 1853, when she was 33, she took a job running a small private hospital in London’s Harley Street. Her father realised that Florence was really serious about helping the sick and injured and promised to pay her £500 a year. This was a massive sum of money in Victorian times. In 1854 Florence helped to tend people suffering from cholera. Sidney Herbert, a friend of Florence’s and the member of the government in charge of the military, wrote to her and asked her to organise a group of nurses and head for the Crimea (in Turkey). On 4th November 1854 Florence Nightingale and 38 other nurses arrived at Scutari, an area of the city of Constantinople. The main British hospital was located there and Florence was not impressed by the conditions. The hospital was dirty, the drains were blocked, rats and fleas were everywhere. At first the doctors did not want the help of Florence Nightingale and her nurses, but they soon…
These women also contributed a little bit differently to the field of nursing as individuals. Florence Nightingale pioneered the sanitation of hospitals, promoted hygiene, and more diligent hospital administration. Her school’s original mission was to train nurses how to work in hospitals, work with the poor, and to educate patients. The prime of Nightingale’s life was a little bit earlier than Wald’s or Breckinridge’s as she was born fifty and sixty years prior to the latter two ladies. In many ways, Florence…
Florence Nightingale - The word "nurse" is synonymous with Florence Nightingale, the most famous nurse of all time. A British nurse who worked during the 19th century, Nightingale was a selfless nurse who braved harsh conditions in battle during the Crimean War. Also a statistician, Nightingale's dedication to reducing the deaths of British Army soldiers sproduced some groundbreaking findings on the living conditions of patients. Nightingale advocated cleanliness for all people in the hopes to reduce illness and death.…
Florence, who thought “God had called her to be a nurse,” dedicated her life to the safety and well being of nurses and their patients (Maughan, 2014). Before the 1800s, nursing was an untrained profession.…
Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy, on 12th May, 1820. In her late teens she felt that she was being called by God for something other living the life of the upper class. That other cause was nursing and after her father permission, decided to go to Kaiserwerth, Germany to study. She was there up until the Beginning of the Crimean War, which she aided heavily by tending to the wounded and sickly. After the war Nightingale she began making pamphlets and publishing books to spread her opinions on reform.…