TFN NIGHTINGALE

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

the founder of nursing

1837

wrote in her diary, “God spoke to me and called me to His service”

1852

accepted her training to become a nurse at Kaiserwerth, Germany, a Protestant religious community with a hospital facility

1853

she became the superintendent of the hospital for invalid gentlewomen in london

WHAT WAS HER ILLNESS THAT CAUSED HER TO DIE?

crimean fever-typhus or brucellosis

SHE ESTABLISHED?

St. Thomas hospital and kings college hospital in london

WHEN WAS HER BIRTHDAY?

May 12, 1820, Florence, Italy

WHEN DID SHE DIE?

August 13, 1920 (90 years old)

FIVE ESENTIAL COMPONENTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

pure air

pure water

efficient drainage

cleanliness

direct light

PROPER VENTILATION

greatest concern of nightingale, recognize this environmental component as source of disease and recovery

CLEANLINESS

advocated bathing patients on a frequen, even daily basis. also required that nurses bathe daily

NURSING

she believed that every woman, at one time in her life, would be a nurse in the sense that nursing is having the responsibility for someone else’s health

NOTES ON NURSING

provide women guidelines for acting for their loved ones at home and think like a nurse

TRAINED NURSES

learned and applied additional scientific principles to their work and were more skilled in observation and reporting of patients’ health status while performing interventions

PERSON

referred to by NIGHTINGALE as “the patient”

HEALTH

defined as being well and using every power (resource) that the person has to the fullest extent in living his or her life

ENVIRONMENT

elements external to and which affect the health of the sick and health person and included everything from the patients food and flowers to the patients werbal and non verbal interactionc

USE OF EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE

her reports describing health and sanitary conditions in the Crimea and in England identify her as an outstanding scientist and empirical researcher

THEORETICAL ASSERTIONS

she believed that disease was a reparative process

LOGICAL FORM

she used inductive reasoning to extract laws of health, disease and nursing from her observations and experiences