Florence Nightingale: A Historical Nursing Figure Who Shaped My Practice

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Florence Nightingale is one of the historical nursing figures who has shaped my practice. One theory that still holds true and is of utmost importance is cleanliness. Cleanliness in the environment can include many things for example a clean surgical wound, or clean PICC line dressing, or a clean hospital room just to name a few. Evidenced based practices shows proper hand hygiene can prevent or stop the spread of microorganism. On the negative side many microorganisms are becoming resistant to antibiotics increasing the need for nursing profession to be diligent in cleanliness. This would help stop the spread of microorganism and multidrug resistant microorganisms. Nightingale has was a leader of her time and a positive influence on