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CONTRIBUTIONS OF NIGHTINGALE

CHARACTERS AND PORTRAYERS:

 Florence Nightingale – Veronica

 Volunteer Nurses – Hanna, Jennilyn, Shenalyn, Nicole, Shania, Michelle, Arianna
 Soldiers 1-6 – Mark, Hans, Kenneth, Hecmar, Raphael, Sherwin
 Professor – Lovely
 Students 1-6 – Mark, Nadielyn, Jesserei, Joys, Ella, Christian
 Modern Nurse – Krista
 Patient – Janine

INTRODUCTION:
Clips: War Scenes | Mood: Intense, Suspense
On Set: Nightingale and Soldiers
(Nightingale is seen in the middle of the chaos, helping a wounded soldier...*transition*
to a hectic scene with nurses assisting every soldier. Nightingale will enter the room
with the soldier…)
Narrator: It all began during the Crimean War. It is the war between Russia and Turkey
that took place in March 1853. During the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale offered to
provide free services and was permitted to take a total of 38 nurses to Turkey. Who is
Florence Nightingale? Why is she considered a well-known nurse? What are her
significant contributions to Nursing?

(Transition: *black screen*)

1st Scene
Setting: 1853 | Day | A busy room with a dirty environment
Nurse 1: I need help over here!
Nurse 2: I’m sorry this will hurt, somehow…(assisting a wounded soldier)
Nurse 3: I need assistance over here (carrying as soldier inside)
Nurse 4 will assist Nurse 3.
Soldier 1: Can I get a water please? (reaching out for Nightingale who is near him)
Florence Nightingale: (smiled and held the soldiers hand placing his arm back inside
the blanket) Will gladly give you one, wait for a moment and give yourself a rest.

(Going into a corner where food and water are stored. She was stuned at what she saw
as soon as she looked at the almost empty water. She looked back to the scene where
it was hectic—)

Nightingale: (worriedly utters) This is bad, this is horrible…

Narrator: Florence Nightingale, slowly walk through the hallway of the soldiers as she
observe the environment. She first saw that the soldiers are lay in filth straw pallets in
crowded hallways.
Nightingale: Do we have some extra clothes? (she asked Nurse 5)
Narrator: She saw rats and insects in the corner of the room, crawling around the floor
and walls.
Nightingale: Do we have some cleaning supplies around? (she asked Nurse 6 and 7)
(she slowly fetch a water to give one glass to the soldier 1)
Nightingale: There’s no more water for everyone. (voice over)
(New wounded soldiers enters the room, wearing filthy clothes/uniform)
Nightingale: Dear Lord, guide us to heal them.
2nd Scene
Setting: 1853 | Night | A room with a quiet environment
(A nurse will see Nightingale with her lamp again and going toward the soldiers…)
Nurse 1: Oh God, it’s already dark, Ms. Nightingale, what are you doing?
Nightingale: I’ll check on the soldiers. (smiled)
Nurse 1: You’re so hard working, I’m inspired by you.
(Nightingale will smiled and pat her head)
Nightingale: Let’s do the work and do our calling…
(Nightingale will do her usual rounds and assist some of the soldiers at night with her
lamp in her hand)
Narrator: Back there she was called “The Lady with The Lamp” as she was always seen
checking and assisting patients through the dark.

3rd Scene
Narrator: She came home back in London after the Crimean War. She was still into
helping and promoting that clean environment is needed in hospitals. She published the
Note on Hospitals and Notes on Nursing both in year 1859. She provided guidelines
and advices on how to think like a nurse.

Nightingale: Nursing is an art of utilizing the patient’s environment for his or her
recovery. (signed the pages)

(Time-skip transition)
4th Scene
Setting: Online Class | Day
Professor: So like I was saying, Nightingale made the Environmental theory, she
focused on providing a clean and healthy environment for a better and faster recovery
of the patients. The central concept of her theory is to have a therapeutic environment
that will enhance the comfort and recovery of the patient. Now, the question… what are
the seven components of the Environmental theory that she provided again?
Student 1: (raised their hand) She provided seven components of the environment and
those are Proper Ventilation, Adequate Light, Cleanliness, Warmth, Quiet, Diet, and
Management.
Professor: That’s right. Thank you, Ms/Mr. ______. She provides Proper Ventilation,
Adequate Light, Cleanliness, Warmth, Quiet, Diet, and Management, which are all
rooted in her observations during the Crimean War…
Professor: Up until now, those seven are still presently observed in our hospitals…
(Transition: Fade sounds, Beeps of the vehicles, Ambulance sirens, entering the
hospital room.)
5th Scene
(The nurse will enter the room, holding a clipboard with the vital sign sheet, nursing kit)
Nurse: Good morning Ms. ___________, ako po yung Nurse for toiday. Check ko lang
po iyong vital signs niyo.
(proceeds)
Nurse: Kumusta po pakiramdam niyo?
Patient: Okay naman na po, salamat nurse ah.
Nurse: Okay naman na po ang vital signs niyo, baka po nextweek makauwi na kayo,
maging obedient lang po tayo lagi sa sinasabi ni Doc.
(The camera will focused on how the nurse will fixed all the things and clean the side
table. The clean environment around the room.)
Narrator: Nightingale’s contributions are still being used today in real life setting
especially in hospitals. She contributed important factors and knowledge for the nurses
to apply in their work so the patients will have a comfortable, faster and better recovery.