The Nightingale Nurses: (Nightingales 3)

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By 1882, several Nightingale nurses had become matrons at several leading hospitals, including, in London ( St Mary's Hospital, Westminster Hospital, StMarylebone Workhouse Infirmary and the Hospital for Incurables at Putney) and throughout Britain ( Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley; Edinburgh Royal Infirmary; Cumberland Infirmary and Liverpool Royal Infirmary), as well as at Sydney Hospital in New South Wales, Australia. [54] The event is an opportunity to gather to pause, reflect, and rededicate ourselves to the professions in the 203rd anniversary year of Florence Nightingale’s birth on 12th May 1820. We give thanks to all nurses and midwives everywhere as they support health systems to recover and rebuild following the Covid-19 pandemic.

Though Nightingale is sometimes said to have denied the theory of infection for her entire life, a 2008 biography disagrees, [47] saying that she was simply opposed to a precursor of germ theory known as contagionism. This theory held that diseases could only be transmitted by touch. Before the experiments of the mid-1860s by Pasteur and Lister, hardly anyone took germ theory seriously; even afterwards, many medical practitioners were unconvinced. Bostridge points out that in the early 1880s Nightingale wrote an article for a textbook in which she advocated strict precautions designed, she said, to kill germs. Nightingale's work served as an inspiration for nurses in the American Civil War. The Union government approached her for advice in organising field medicine. Her ideas inspired the volunteer body of the United States Sanitary Commission. [49] Florence Nightingale was the second of two daughters born, during an extended European honeymoon, to William Edward and Frances Nightingale. (William Edward’s original surname was Shore; he changed his name to Nightingale after inheriting his great-uncle’s estate in 1815.) Florence was named after the city of her birth. After returning to England in 1821, the Nightingales had a comfortable lifestyle, dividing their time between two homes, Lea Hurst in Derbyshire, located in central England, and Embley Park in warmer Hampshire, located in south-central England. Embley Park, a large and comfortable estate, became the primary family residence, with the Nightingales taking trips to Lea Hurst in the summer and to London during the social season. In the Crimea on 29November 1855, the Nightingale Fund was established for the training of nurses during a public meeting to recognise Nightingale for her work in the war. There was an outpouring of generous donations. Sidney Herbert served as honorary secretary of the fund and the Duke of Cambridge was chairman. In her 1856 letters she described spas in the Ottoman Empire, detailing the health conditions, physical descriptions, dietary information, and other vital details of patients whom she directed there. She noted that the treatment there was significantly less expensive than in Switzerland. [42] Nightingale, c.1858, by Goodman I was tasked with chairing and designing a session, and suggested diabetes insipidus. This topic was on the revolving programme agenda and very topical, given the patient safety alert issued in February 2016: ‘Stage one: warning. Risk of severe harm or death when desmopressin is omitted or delayed in patients with cranial diabetes insipidus’. 2 Florence Nightingale was born in 1820. She was named after the Italian city Florence, where she was born.Even though it was not a respected profession at the time, Nightingale told her parents that she wanted to become a nurse. Her parents did not approve of her decision and wanted her to get married and raise a family. Nightingale still wanted to be a nurse and refused marriage. Eventually, her father allowed her to go to Germany for three months to study at Pastor Theodore Fliedner’s hospital and school for Lutheran Deaconesses. After finishing her program in Germany, Nightingale went to Paris for extra training with the Sisters of Mercy. By the time she was 33, Nightingale was already making a name for herself in the nursing community. She returned to England in 1853 and became the superintendent and manager of a hospital for “gentlewomen” in London. Use the sources in this lesson to explore why Florence Nightingale is considered a significant figure and the founder of modern nursing. The ceremony took place virtually with messages of support and inspiration from Gillian Prager, President of The Nightingale Fellowship, and Chief Midwifery Officer for England, Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent OBE. What is the most rewarding part of being a mental health nurse at Nightingale Hospital? Being able to inspire hope when at times, there does not seem to be any. Walking the patient through their recovery is priceless Source 6a – Front cover of a file about a statue for Florence Nightingale, Catalogue ref: WORK 20/67

Avey Bhatia, Chief Nurse at Guy’s and St Thomas’, said: “It was wonderful to see so many of our nurses and midwives recognised for their outstanding work. They should all feel immensely proud of their achievements during such a challenging year. What inspires you? I am inspired by my knowledge of the almighty God, my husband, my children and my entire family. They all keep me grounded, and I feel very privileged to be loved the way I am loved. I hope that my story can inspire someone to become a future mental health nurse. Many thanks for listening to my story.Some scholars of Nightingale's life believe that she remained chaste for her entire life, perhaps because she felt a religious calling to her career. [66] Death The grave of Florence Nightingale in the churchyard of StMargaret's Church, East Wellow, Hampshire

On the 4 November 1854, Florence Nightingale arrived in Turkey with a group of 38 nurses from England. Britain was at war with Russia in a conflict called the Crimean War (1854-1856). The army base hospital at Scutari in Constantinople was unclean, poorly supplied with bandages and soap and the patients did not have proper food or medicine.What is the most rewarding part of being a mental health nurse at Nightingale Hospital? The most rewarding part of the job is seeing patients come to the end of their hospital journey and on the road to recovery. Use Source 2 to help you write your questions to decide what would make a good nurse. Write 6-8 questions. The Nightingale Pledge is a modified version of the Hippocratic Oath which nurses in the United States recite at their pinning ceremony at the end of training. Created in 1893 and named after Nightingale as the founder of modern nursing, the pledge is a statement of the ethics and principles of the nursing profession. [104] During this service, a burning lamp will be carried through the Cathedral by a chosen FNF Scholar. It will be placed on the altar to represent ‘the undying spirit of the service displayed by Florence Nightingale’, demonstrated by nurses and midwives today. The current lamp was first used for the service in 1970, the 150th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth. The Lamp Carrier will be followed by two Lamp Escorts, who lead a procession of other esteemed Scholars of the Foundation, followed by student nurses and midwives. This signifies the transfer of nursing and midwifery knowledge to future nurses and midwives.