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HAPPY NURSES DAY12th MAY
Florence Nightingale
What work might this person be doing?
What sort of person do you think she is?
Florence NightingalePIONEER OFMODERN NURSING
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You ask me why I do not write something.... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale
Born in Florence, Italy
12 May 1820 A wealthy family
Born to very wealthy, educated parents • Traveled extensively, owned multiple estates • Father was Cambridge educated, mother was a strong supporter of the abolition of slavery
• Father believed women should have a strong education • Florence and her sister learned Italian, Latin, Greek, history and mathematics. Florence especially excelled in mathematics.
Florence Nightingale
Returned to England in 1821
Taught at home with her older sister
Florence was a very clever child
One of Florence Nightingale’s childhood homes – Lea Hurst, Derbyshire
The Nightingales spent part of the year here and part of the year in Hampshire
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Nurses are the heart of healthcare.Nurses are the hospitality of the hospital.
Florence Nightingale had a broad education
and came to dislike the lack of opportunity for females in her
social circle.
Florence Nightingale
In 1837, when she was 17, she felt a “calling” to help people
She visited sick people at their homes
Her parents wanted her to get married
She had other ideas and travelled in Europe looking at hospitals
Her parents wanted her to marry a rich man, but she wanted to become a nurse. Her parents were opposed to this, as nursing was considered to be a job for poor women.
Doctors are the Brain Of the hospital and
Nurses are the Heart
of the Hospital,If Brain fails ,heart
will be manage,But if Heart fails
nothing will manage
Florence Nightingale
Parents did not want her to become a nurse
She studied medicine books herself for years
She was 30 when her parents let her go to Germany and Paris to study nursing
Eventually, when Florence was 31, her father gave her permission to train. in 1853 she was appointed resident lady superintendent of a hospital for women in Harley Street, London.
Hospitals in 1830’s
Often people who went into hospital died
They were Dirty
Badly run
Nurses didn’t know what to do
Florence Nightingale
In 1854 the Crimean War broke out – England was at war with Russia
People in England heard that soldiers in hospitals were poorly treated.
Florence was invited to take a group of 38 female nurses to work in hospitals in the Crimea.
Crimean War Crimean War 18541854
Reports of the sufferings of the sick and wounded in English camps inspired Florence to enlist her services
She was offered “plenary authority over all nurses and the fullest assistance and cooperation from medical staff.”
She went to work
Scrubbed the floors
Cleaned the wards
Washed the bedclothes
Made the men comfortable
•In the night she carried a lamp so she was called “The Lady with the Lamp”
•Soldiers kissed her shadow
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
They began to get betterSitting up, cheerful and happier!
Florence Nightingale
War finished in 1856 Florence returned to England.
She wanted to improve hospitals in this country
Conditions in hospitals began to improve
1883 Royal Red Cross
1907 Order of Merit
Letter from Queen Victoria
Thanking “Miss Nightingale and her ladies” for all their hard work
She was given a diamond brooch with ‘Blessed are the merciful’ engraved on it
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.... ~William Osler
Florence Nightingale
Florence died of old age in 1910 She was buried near to her
parents’ home in Hampshire.
Until recently her picture was on our British £10 note
She was famous all over the world
She changed hospitals all over the world
There is a museum in London which celebrates her life and work
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A nurse will always give us hope,an angel with a stethoscope.
Florence is remembered today as the person responsible for improving conditions in hospitals and making nursing an acceptable job
Florence Nightingale
Tidbits Tidbits → Florence inspired Jean Henri Dunant , one of five founders of the International Committee of the Red Cross (Geneva Switzerland) which in turn inspired Clara Barton to form the American National Red Cross.
→ There is a psychological effect named after her called “The Nightingale Effect,” whereby nurses and doctors fall in love with their patients.
→ Florence was known during the Crimean war as The Lady with the Lamp, as she would tirelessly make rounds of the patients after everyone had already retired for the night.
→ Florence wrote many books throughout her life on nursing, the most notable and widely used was: Notes on Nursing: What Nursing Is, What Nursing Is Not (1860)
In a NutshellIn a Nutshell
Florence was:
→ A pioneer of nursing
→ The Founder of Modern Nursing
→ A reformer of hospital sanitation methods
→ Credited with proving that nursing could be a respectable profession