Florence Nightingale Research Paper

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viewed as illiterate, self-serving promiscuous losers but rather heroes worthy of respect, honor, and dignity. Alone, Florence Nightingale nurtured nursing from, ‘the sink it was’ into a respected and noble profession it is today ( p. 22).
At the age of 40, Nightingale continued her experience as a nurse through the development of the Nightingale School of Nursing at St. Thomas, which served to be the beginning of professional nursing. There she trained hand selected students with strong morals, with no ties to the stereotypes of past nurses. Aware of the struggle ahead of her she took great interest into the personal lives of her students and quickly eliminated the ones that failed to display high moral character and intelligence. Her role as a mentor and educator for young girls in the practice of nursing while staying true to her moral roots most impressed me in her journey of nursing. She …show more content…

Together these papers admired the success of prevention based nursing practice, a concept she strongly believed should be the future of healthcare. Through her practice, she was acknowledged for recognizing the importance of taking responsibility for one’s health (p. 24). Although Nightingale is best known for health care reform of hospitals and her work in the military, she also participated in the reform of the workhouse infirmary, where 1,200 sick individuals were crammed into unsanitary and unsafe conditions, and community sanitation reform. Unfortunately, it is thought that she suffered from PTSD after the Crimean War holding onto the many lives lost due to preventable diseases. Florence Nightingale’s contribution to nursing through her research in sanitation and guidance in environmental healthcare reform will forever have a place in the field of nursing, as her philosophy in nursing is still conveyed in today’s nursing