FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
"Lady With The Lamp"
Born: 12 May 1820, in Florence Grand duchy of Tuscany
Died: 13 august (age 90) in Park lane London, United Kingdom
Education: Taught at home by her father who was Cambridge University educated.
Profession: Nurse and Statistician
Institution: Selimiye Barracks, Scutari.
Specialism: Hospital Hygiene and sanitation
More About Florence Nightingale:
Young Florence rebelled against the life of her family, and became determined to serve society. She developed an ambition to work in hospitals. Her family was horrified, as nursing, in the early 1800s, was not considered a respectable profession. Florence stubbornly clung to her wishes, worked as a private nurse, and attended a nursing school in Germany.
Nightingale Goes to the Crimean War:
In 1853, Florence Nightingale became the director of a small charitable hospital in London. It gave her a chance to use not only her nurse's training but her ability at organization and administration. When Britain went to war against Russia, Nightingale, through the intercession of a British official she knew, was invited to travel to the Crimea. She brought along 38 nurses. In November 1854 Nightingale and her party arrived in Constantinople, and discovered appalling conditions at the British Army hospital at Scutari.
Awards & Recognition:
In 1883 Queen Victoria
awarded Florence Nightingale with the Royal Red Cross and in 1907 she became the first woman to be awarded the Order of Merit. She could not leave her bed after 1896 and died on August 13, 1910.
Florence Nightingale's lasting contribution has been her role in founding the nursing profession, and in the shining example she set for nurses throughout the profession of commitment to patient care and hospital administration.
There are countless examples of Florence Nightingale's continuing legacy in the nursing profession that she founded, from the continuing work of the Nightingale School of Nursing and throughout the entire field of nursing education and medical records.
Today, there are three hospitals in Istanbul named after her: F. N. Hastanesi in Sisli, (the biggest private hospital in Turkey), Metropolitan F.N. Hastanesi in Gayrettepe and Avrupa F.N. Hastanesi in Mecidiyeköy, all belonging to the Turkish Cardiology Foundation.
During the Vietnam War, Florence Nightingale served as an inspiration for many US Army nurses and sparked a continuing renewal of interest in her life and work, that, inter alia, caught the attention of Country Joe of Country Joe and the Fish who has assembled an extensive web site in her honor.
The Agostino Gemelli Medical Centre in Rome - the first University-based hospital in Italy, and one of its most respected medical centers, is the research and teaching hospital of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart). It honored Florence Nightingale's contribution to the nursing profession by giving the name Bedside Florence to a wireless ward system they have developed that equips nurses with Compaq iPAQ hand-held computers connected to a Windows 2000 wireless network.
Publications:
Books Written by Florence Nightingale
1858 Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hospital Administration of the British Army
1859 Notes on Nursing
1859 A Contribution to the Sanitary History of the British Army during the Late War with Russia
1859 Notes on Hospitals
1873 Life or Death in India (paper)
1876 On Trained Nurses for the Sick Poor
1894 Rural Hygiene (pamphlet)
Concepts:
PERSON
Nightingale focused on the person as " the recipient of nursing care"
(Selanders, 1993). She believed that nurses should concentrate on the
patient and their needs, not the disease they were afflicted with. She
knew that people were multidimensional and wrote about their
biological, psychological, social and spiritual requirements.
Nightingale emphasized that people had reparative powers and that the
nurses' duty was to assist these powers as the means of returning
people to health. (Selanders, 1993)
ENVIRONMENT
The environment was the main emphasis on Nightingales nursing beliefs.
She clearly emphasized that clean environment, fresh air, warmth,
noise control and management of wastes and odors were ways that the
"environment could be altered in such a way as to improve conditions
so that nature could act to cure the patient." (Selanders, 1993) She
realized that internal and external environment controls were both
important to the progress of the patient's health. While she stressed
the importance of fresh air and ventilation and an environment free of
odors and waste, she knew that properly prepared food and clean water
was also necessary.
HEALTH
Nightingale decribes health as a "state of being well and using ones
powers to the fullest" (Creasia, Parker, 1996) Nightingale saw health
as an absence of disease, with illness a physical state. By
controlling the environment and taking care of the body, health was
achieved.
NURSING
Florence Nightingale's Philosophy was based on the idea that nursing
was a calling from God. Nurses were meant to ease suffering, to offer
comfort, and most of all to look after the patient's well being.
Further, Nightingale believed that nursing was a science as well as a
profession -- a noble profession -- and worked very hard to raise it
to the level of respectability by teaching technical skills and
techniques. Nurses were responsible for the day to day care of the
patient, and were limited to that function.
Assumptions of Nightingale
- Natural laws
- Mankind can achieve perfection
- Nursing is a calling
Nursing is an art and a science
- Nursing is achieved through environmental alteration
- Nursing requires a specific educational base
- Nursing is distinct and separate from medicine
Theoretical Assertions:
Prevention of interruption is very vital in the reparative process of the patient. Her focus is on nursing education that required even more training.
Nursing Practice is the application of common sense, observation, perseverance and ingenuity.
"If the person wants to recuperate, he needs to cooperate with the nurse."
Disease came from the organic materials from the patient and environment not on the germ theory. She totally disagree and rejected the germ theory.
Sanitation means the manipulation of the environment to prevent diseases.
Nursing is the commitment to the nursing works.
She gives a little focus on the interpersonal relationship and nurse caring behavior.
She believed that the nurse should be moral agents. "Think and act like a nurse."
Professional relationships, principles of confidentiality and care for the poor to improve health and social condition were the focus of her nursing care.
Application of Nightingale's Theory:
Application of Nightingale's Theory:
Click the link below : Recorded Voice of Florence Nightingale:
http://youtu.be/LX-bjFyRgPgCreated by: Nizza Constantino & Sharmaine Novilla
