05/09/2022
The largest profession that ranks as the most trusted is nursing. The foundations of nursing practiced worldwide get their roots in the most remarkable figure in nursing history, Florence Nightingale. She helped define nursing practice by suggesting that nurses did not need to know all about the disease process like in the medical field. Instead, they needed to understand how to care for a patient in their environment, assisting the patient with symptoms and changes related to the illness.
She was born on May 12, in Florence, Italy and died on August 13, 1910, at the age of 90. Her ideas and contributions shaped nursing practice in the western world. Florence assisted the poor and ill people in the village neighbouring her estate, and by 16, she decided nursing was her life’s mission.
In July 1850, she enrolled for 2 weeks of training and again enrolled for 3 more months in July 1851.
During the Crimean War of 1853, Nightingale and her methods gained fame. A scandal broke out due to a lack of medical attention and unsanitary, inhumane conditions for injured soldiers. Nightingale was asked by Sidney Herbert, then the Secretary of War, to gather a force of nurses to properly care for the injured and sick. She arrived to discover horrific conditions: rodents, f***s, and a complete lack of sanitation. The soldiers were dying from infection rather than their injuries.
Here she introduced many concepts that are still used today.
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https://www.canadian-nurse.com/en/news-events/national-nursing-week
https://library.uthscsa.edu/2015/02/the-lady-with-the-lamp-and-her-contributions-to-modern-nursing/ #:~:text=The%20foundations%20of%20nursing%20practiced%20across%20the%20world,about%20t
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