Florence Nightingale

Who is she?

• Florence Nightingale was born on May 12, 1820 in Florence, at that time
the capital of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Belonging to a wealthy family,
she was the daughter of William Edward Nightingale and Frances Smith;
Frances, her older sister was a writer and journalist.
• In 1837, prompted by what she interpreted as a 'divine call', she
announced to her family her decision to dedicate herself to nursing from
1844. Despite strong opposition from her family - mainly from her mother
and sister - He managed to train as a nurse. At that time, the profession of
nurse-or caregiver-was associated with women of the working class,
nothing to do with a young educated like Florence, who was also destined
to marry.
 Florence and the Crimean War

• At that time, Sidney Herbert - an old acquaintance of the Nightingale family -

was the Secretary of War in Great Britain. He knew Florence's activities as a
nurse, to whom he asked for help.
• On October 21, 1854, Florence and a team of thirty-eight volunteer nurses-
many of them inexperienced, and trained personally by Florence-left for the
front. They were transported across the Black Sea to the British operations
base in Scutari: they arrived in early November 1854. They found a bleak
picture: wounded soldiers received inadequate treatment by a medical team
surpassed by the situation, while the controls of the army were totally
indifferent to this situation.
 Florence Nightingale, much more
than the lady in the lamp

• Itis said that Florence accepted to go to war not to help

people but to find his love who was a soldier who assisted in
the Crimean War so every night he lit a lamp and searched
among all the wounded was When she realized that during
the night all the patients changed their health and despite
never finding her boyfriend she kept making her rounds with
her lamp to what is now known as the night round
 The war
• In the middle of the conflict, an article in The Times
published on February 8, 1855, described Florence and her
work in this way: "Without exaggeration some nurse is a"
guardian angel "in these hospitals, and while her graceful
figure slips silently through the corridors, the face of the
unfortunate one softens with gratitude at the sight of her.
When all the medical officers have already retired and the
silence and the darkness descend on so many suffering
mourners, he can observe it alone, with a small lamp in his
hand, making his solitary rounds ".
 Your own school
• In 1860, Florence opened a School of Nursing Training at
St. Thomas Hospital and began to work and write about
different healthcare reforms.
• In 1883, Queen Victoria awarded her the Royal Red Cross,
and in 1907 King Edward VII granted her the Order of Merit,
the first time a woman was dispensed. In 1908, he was
given the Keys to the City of London and, in 1910, he died
while sleeping
 Florence Nightingale and the birth
of modern nursing

• Facing first what her family expected from her, renouncing

the marriage that was presupposed and facing the
masculine idiosyncrasy that made up the high spheres of
the army and health and political institutions. Finally, she
imposed herself above the social impediments and was able
to carry out everything that was proposed, perhaps with less
agility and more obstacles than she would have liked but
opening the way for other women with purposes beyond
their reach could be encouraged to search your own
success.
 Nurse of profession
• From Florence Nightingale, nursing would assist in its
progressive gestation as an academic discipline and would
acquire a vital importance for the correct treatment of patients,
essential to complement medical work. Because of her self-
taught character and her ability to work under conditions of high
pressure such as armed conflict, the figure of Florence serves as
inspiration for many nurses around the world. In his honor, a
medal was created to honor health personnel who work in
conflict zones or intervene in natural disasters. Florence
Nightingale knew how to empower women as well as raise the
profession of nursing and promote both concepts beyond
unsuspected limits.
 Theory of the environment
• In the mid-nineteenth century Florence Nightingale
expressed her firm conviction that the knowledge of nursing
- not just its practice - was intrinsically different from that of
medical science. In this framework, he defined the nurse's
own and distinctive function (placing the patient in the best
conditions for nature to act on him) and defended the idea
that this profession is based on the knowledge of people
and their environment (base of departure different from the
one traditionally used by doctors for their professional
practice).
 Theory of the
environment
•Environment such as: all external
conditions and influence that affect the
life and development of an organism
and that can prevent, stop or favor
disease, accidents or death.