Florence Nightingale: Non-Profit Management Case Study

1 “The Fixed Determination of an Indomitable Will, Florence Nightingale” Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale was born to make a change, because she possessed the ambition and devotion to help people at a very young age. The obstacles she had to face as a woman practicing medicine in the nineteenth century were tirelessly unending. For example, the social statuses and morals that dictated people’s decisions in the mid 1800s were key contributors to the complete devastation and collapse of the contemporary healthcare practices. In response to the popular yet destructive morals of nineteenth century England, Florence Nightingale actuated on ethics and her uttermost devotion for changing the standards of nurses into a profession. Her ideas were innovative and philanthropic, and she was not merely the framer of the nursing profession; she was also a pioneer of social entrepreneurship, even before J. G. Simon established the term of a non-­‐profit organization. Symptoms • Nurses were not considered professionals in the mid 1800s and even had a bad stigma. Hospitals placed their patients in danger by not regarding or training their nurses as professionals. The funding, support, and education that the