Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

Lady with the lamp

Florence Nightingale

Is a british nurse, statistician, and social reformer who was the foundational philosopher of modern nursing

Sidney Herbert

Invited Nightingale to lead 34 nurses to Scutari, Turkey

Charles Dickens

Influenced Nightingale and showed her how bad nursing was back then

John Stuart Mill

A smart thinker and reformer who inspired her

Polar area diagram

A chart made by Nightingale to show how many soldiers died from preventable diseases, not from, battle wounds

Pure air

Keep the air fresh without making the patient cold; open windows, use fires, position the patent well

Light

Patients need sunlight; move them to let light into the room

Cleanliness

Keep patients, nurses, clothes, linens, and the environment clean to prevent infection

Efficient Drainage

Properly dispose of waste to avoid dirty, contaminated areas

Pure Water

Give patients clean water; promote frequent bathing and handwashing

Nursing

Is something everyone might do at some point, like caring for a sick family member. But professional nurses needed extra scientific knowledge and skills to observe and report on patient’s health

Patient

Person receiving care (definition by nightingale)

Person (Patient)

Nurses were in charge of the patient’s surroundings to help them get better

Patients

Could still help with things like eating if they were able, and Florence believed in treating every patient as an individual, no matter their background

Health

Meant being well and using all your abilities to live life fully. She thought sickness was nature’s way of fixing problems when health was ignored. Nurses should focus not just on curing illness but also on preventing disease by keeping the environment healthy

Environment

Florence said nurses should create a space that helps nature heal the patient- clean, fresh air, sunlight and good living conditions

environment

She believed improving the homes of poor people could improve their health and even their place in society. She learned about poor living conditions firsthand by visiting families with her mother and later on her own

Florence Nightingale

Believed that disease is nature’s way of trying to heal the body when something is wrong. She saw the nurse’s job as helping nature do its work by keeping the patient’s surroundings clean, safe, and healthy

Critical Thinking

Nurses should be well-trained, observe their patents closely, and use common sense, patience, and creativity in their work. Nightingale believed people generally want to be healthy and will work with nurses to improve their health if give the right conditions

Prevent Illness

Nightingale didn’t

Prevent Illness

Nightingale didn’t fully agree with the germ the Germ theory at that time, but she understood that disease could spread through contaminated materials and believed good hygiene and sanitation could prevent illness

Ethics & Morale

Nightingale believed nurses should act with strong morals and ethics - protecting patient privacy, caring for the poor, supporting patient decision-making, and avoiding indecision that could harm the patient

Inductive reasoning

Looking at real-life observations and experiences, then drew general rules from them

Environmental Theory

Described as the “trunk of the tree” of the nursing theory tree - other theories grew from her work

Environment theory

Seen as a philosophy that shaped modern nursing theories

A clear guide to nursing

Nightingale’s famous book that focuses on how to take card of the sick