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Florence Nightingale (/ ˈ n aɪ t ɪ ŋ ɡ eɪ l /; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing.Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. [4]
She stated in her nursing notes that nursing "is an act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery" (Nightingale 1860/1969), [3] that it involves the nurse's initiative to configure environmental settings appropriate for the gradual restoration of the patient's health, and that external factors associated with the patient's surroundings affect life or biologic ...
Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not is a book first published by Florence Nightingale in 1859. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A 76-page volume with 3 page appendix published by Harrison of Pall Mall, it was intended to give hints on nursing to those entrusted with the health of others.
Florence Nightingale. Florence Nightingale, like the majority of people living in the Victorian time period, believed in the miasma theory of disease. [4] Though she was a mathematician and statistician, she was asked by the British secretary of war to join a nursing service during The Crimean War. [5]
1854 – Florence Nightingale appointed as the Superintendent of Nursing Staff. 1854 – Florence Nightingale and 38 volunteer nurses are sent to Turkey on October 21 to assist with caring for the injured of the Crimean War. 1854 – In a letter written November 15, 1854, to Dr Bowman, Florence Nightingale gives definite statistics:
The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care is an academic faculty within King's College London. The faculty is the world's first nursing school to be continuously connected to a fully serving hospital and medical school ( St. Thomas' Hospital ). [ 3 ]
Florence Nightingale is regarded as the founder of modern nursing profession. [3] There was no hospital training school for nurses until one was established in Kaiserwerth , Germany, in 1846. There, Nightingale received the training that enabled her in 1860 to establish, at St Thomas' Hospital in London, the first school designed primarily to ...
Florence Blake (1907–1983), American pediatric nursing professor and author; Florence A. Blanchfield (1884–1971), superintendent of the United States Army Nurse Corps; Cecilia Blomqvist (1845–1890), Finnish deaconess; Kath Bonnin (1911 – 1985) was an Australian army nurse during WW2 [1]