Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy in the year of 1820. Florence and her sister were both educated by their father. In 1837 she decided she wanted to do God’s work. She established nursing as her distinct profession.
The period between the late 17th century and into the middle of the 19th century has best been described as the “dark ages” of nursing. Nurses were typically poor and unskilled workers in this time.
In 1851, she went against her parents’ wishes and refused to get married. She went on to train as a nurse in Germany. In 1853 she went on to Paris for additional training.
When she returned to England she took the position of superintendent for London’s Establishment of Gentlewomen during illness in 1853.
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She and thirty-eight other nurses volunteered to help tend to the wounded. She earned the nickname “the Lady with the Lamp” for her tending to the sick throughout the night.
Two of Florence’s greatest achievements was pioneering of nursing and the reform of hospitals. Her father believed that all women should have an education. Florence and her sister learned Italian, Latin, Greek, History, and mathematics. Some claim that she was tutored by James Sylvester.
After one year of not being paid for being a superintendent, Secretary of War, Sidney Herbert, recruited Nightingale and 38 nurses for service during the Crimean War. While there, she collected data and systemized record-keeping practices.
In 1840, Florence Nightingale begged her parents to let her study mathematics. Her mother did not like that idea. She felt her house duties should not be neglected for math. After a while her parents finally granted her permission. Years later, her mathematical approach saved the British Army during the Crimean War that provided the date that led to the hospital
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In November 1856 a fund had been set up to found a training school for nurses. Nightingale’s health and other occupations prevented Nightingale from being able to accept the role of Superintendent, but, she watched the progress of her new institution with great interest.
In 1858 she published Notes on Matters affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army. In 1859 an army medical college was opened at Chatham and the first military hospital was established in Woolwich in 1861.
Nightingale was involved in establishing the East London Nursing Society (1868), the Workhouse Nursing Association and National Society for providing Trained Nurses for the Poor (1874), and the Queens Jubilee Nursing Institute (1890). Her book, Notes on Nursing first appeared in 1860 and was reprinted many times during her lifetime.
She received the Order of Merit in 1907. In 1908 she was awarded the Freedom of the City of London. On May 10, 1910 she was awarded with the badge of honor of the Norwegian Red Cross Society. On August 13, 1910, Nightingale passed away at the age of ninety. She was buried on August 20, 1910 at East Wellow,
Florence was born in January of 1896 in the slums of Washington, DC. As the daughter of ex-slaves, she had it rough, but this girl had an ability that would soon show. She won a talent contest at age four, and by age seven she had made her professional debut. Two years later, she joined a vaudeville touring company. Since she was too young to do this, therefore it was not very long before she was arrested and put into an institution.
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In particular, the use of Florence Nightingale’s theory of nursing as the basis of my new practice had allowed me to begin with the basics and work my way forward toward a more modern and holistic approach to nursing care. While Florence’s work focused mainly on the military and her care of soldiers, she began to establish schools of nursing to promote nursing education and to encourage people to view nursing as a viable profession, (Alligood, 2014. 63). Nightingale’s focus may have been care of the military, but she made great strides on getting recognition for nursing and her theories still affect the practice of nursing today. In the article, Nurses as Leaders, the author proposes that nurse leaders have made great strides since Nightingale’s time when nurses were conscripted to help care for wounded soldiers. Such a setting required these early nurse pioneers to rely on critical thinking and quick action in order to save lives. The author goes on to discuss how a change in nursing occurred in the early 20th century as new management styles emerged, most notable the “Scientific Management,” model. This style placed doctors at the top, then nurse managers, and on down to bedside care staff. Though this did allow some nurses the ability to move upward, nurses resented a doctor being in charge of their teams as the work of a physician and that of a nurse are two very different practices, ("Nurses as Leaders," 2016). This is quite different from the modern concept of a nurse executive as leader of
Florence Nightingale was the Nurse of Nurses. In nursing school she is the first person you will hear speak of. She is known as “The lady with the lamp”. Her theory focused on the adjustment of the environment provided to protect the patient. She thought that a sleeping patient should never be awaken. Noise should always be avoided because it can startle the sleeping patient. This was a serious problem to her. She delegated tasks to other nurses, always keeping the patients safe and away from harm.
Before Nightingale, nurses were lower class citizens that were alcoholics or prostitutes with no to a little education. Florence Nightingale realized that nurses ought to have some education in caring for others and be of a higher class. In 1860, she opened the first nursing school in London that did not accept prostitutes and alcoholics. To signify Nightingale’s view of nursing, Lystra Gretter composed a Hippocratic Oath for nurses called the Nightingale pledge.
Florence Nightingale was a pioneer in nursing and maintained it as an independent profession which was not secondary to the medical profession but equal. *Nightingale 1969 cited by Hoeve et al 2013
The war office avoided hiring more after their poor reputation, nevertheless Nightingale received a letter in late 1854. Her success in doing so was due to her concern with the sanitation of the hospital. When Nightingale arrived in Crimea on the British Base, Scutari, she was met with filthy floors, bugs, and rats under the beds (History.com, 2009). This is when Florence took action and began to sanitize and clean the hospital as best she could.
There are too many times that the nurses are taken for granted as a part of the school system. In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, the school nurse was completely unknown, even though diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever, chickenpox, and many other eye and skin conditions affected thousands of school children, and not to mention all of the injuries that could occur from day to day at school, in class or during recess. But, thanks to Lillian D. Wald and her visions, efforts, dreams, companions, and her hard work, the situation in most schools changed. In 1902, the school-nurse program began to succeed, and it was one of the very first steps in the development of the public-health nursing system in the United States.
Florence Nightingale is known as the pioneer of modern nursing. Her work has inspired many nurses worldwide. Nursing as we know it would look very different today, if not for Nightingale's contributions to the field. The field of nursing requires patient advocacy, a sterile environment, and organization. Florence Nightingale contributed to nursing by advocating for patient care, inventing good sanitation practices, and creating an record keeping system.
This is what started her on her mission as a nurse. In 1849 Florence went abroad to study the European hospital system. In 1853 she became the superintendent for the Hospital for Invalid Gentlewomen in London. In 1854 Florence raised the economic and productive aspect of women's status by volunteering to run all the nursing duties during the Crimean War. With her efforts, the mortality rates of the sick and wounded soldiers was reduced.
Florence Nightingale was born May 12, 1820 in Florence, Italy to a rich, upper-class British family. Her parents, William Edward and Frances Nightingale, named her after the city of her birth. Her father treated her as his friend and companion since he did not have a son. Mr. Nightingale took over as her primary educator and taught her a variety of subjects.
Many horror stories emerged about the Barrack Hospital in Scutari, where the British wounded were being treated. Sidney Herbert, the Secretary of War and a personal friend of the Nightingale family, made an appeal to Florence to sort out the nursing care in Scutari. Despite the OPPOSITION from the military, Florence took 38 handpicked nurses to work in the hospital. She employed many new standards; privacy curtains, cleaning of sheets, food for patients and she even hired 200 builders to rebuild a ward block. In six months she had managed to reduce the death rate in the hospital from 42% to 2%.
Before the modernization and reform of their profession in the mid-1800s, nurses were believed to perform “women’s work”, which implied menial duties, unskilled service, and an overall lack of skill (Garey, "Sentimental women need not apply"). This mentality was substantiated by the “untrained attendants, [including] past patients, vagrants, and prostitutes,” that performed a variety of nursing tasks (Garey). Florence Nightingale’s nursing experiences during the Crimean War, her subsequent publication of Notes on Nursing, and her work to build up professionalism within the field transformed the way that the world and society viewed nursing. She introduced invigorating ideas of patient care, nursing roles and responsibilities, and was a strong proponent of nursing education. Nightingale’s overall work inspired and changed the profession of nursing, laying the foundation for its
Florence Nightingale, named after the city of Florence, was born in Florence, Italy, on May 12, 1820. She would pursue a career in nursing and later find herself studying data of the soldiers she so cringingly looking after. Born into the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale took the lead role amongst her and her colleges to improve the inhabitable hospitals all across Great Britten; reduce the death count by more than two-thirds. Her love for helping people didn’t go unnoticed and would continue to increase throughout her life. In 1860 she opened up the St. Tomas’ Hospital and the Nightingale Training School for Nurses before passing August 13, 1910 in London. Her willingness to care for her patients was never overlooked and wound establishing
Osburn spent a large portion of her career in Sydney petitioning for the improvement of facilities at the Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary. On arrival in Sydney Ms. Osburn was dismayed at the dilapidated buildings, the infestations of rats and lice, the unsanitary conditions, and the lack of trained staff (Torney, K (2001). The state of both the buildings and the staff were not in line with the standards set by Florence Nightingale. These standards promoted clean, well ventilated, and properly set out wards, particularly long wards with beds down either side, and trained female nurses (Godden, J. and Forsyth, S., 2001). Ms. Osburn’s attention to improvements is not only in line with Nightingale standards, but also the modern day nursing competency standard ‘7.8 Uses health care resources effectively and efficiently to promote optimal nursing and health care’ (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia [NMBA], 2006, standard 7.8). Ms. Osburn measured up to this modern standard by recognising that the current resources and facilities were unable to support adequate health care. She petitioned those who could make the changes for a better resources to be built. The obstacles Ms. Osburn faced were immense, with many of the coordinators declining to help Ms. Osburn in her push for improvements. However, by the time she retired Ms. Osburn had managed to improve the standards of the facilities and nurses to be in line with the standards applicable to the