THE IMPACT OF FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE (1860S) Flashcards
What was the name of the 1st book Nightingale published after she returned from the Crimea?
Notes on hospitals(18(59)
What was the name of the 1st book Nightingale published after she returned from the Crimea?
Notes on nursing (18(59)
What did Nightingales’s Notes on hospitals(18(59) discuss?
Outlined recommendations for ventilated hospitals, and for them to be built with cleanable material
What did Nightingales’s Notes on nursing(18(59) discuss?
Outlined the RESPONSIBILITY of nurses to take active roles in the treatment process
=by observing (the patient) then REPORTING back to the doctors,
What else did Nightingales’s Notes on nursing(18(59) discuss?
Advice on importance of ventilation, cleanliness and bedding but also the cleanliness and professionalism of the nurses
What long term impact did Nightingales books (18(59) have on nursing?
Nightingales books completely professionalised nursing because of its INCREASED EXPECTATION of nurses (respectability ) (more women wanted to be nurses)
Nightingales social impact on nursing/women
Nightingale changed expectations of women in work,
(to train as a nurse seen as acceptable)
HOWEVER it was still conformative to society’s expectations of the role of women
What was an direct impact of Nightingales books?
TRANSLATED INTO 11 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES= highlighting the importance of Nightingales ideas (on) PRACTICAL CARE and the importance (in)TRAINING NURSES even outside of Britain
What else did Nightingale do?When?
Set up the ST THOMA’S HOSPITAL IN LONDON(1960)
for the training of nurses
What belief did nightingale hold that affected how she though hospitals should be run?
She believed in the miasma theory so she advocated that hospital cleanliness with space between the patients beds
Was nightingales beliefs limiting?
Her ideas did make hospitals more hygienic which reduced infection
