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Florence Nightingale
MOTHER OF MODERN NURSING
The lady with the lamp
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Pioneer of Modern NursingFlorence Nightingale
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EARLY LIFE
o Place: Florence, Italy
o Birth: May 12, 1820 (International Nurses Day)
o Daughter of a wealthy landowner, William Nightingale, who later took responsibility for her education, teaching her statistics, languages, history, mathematics, etc.
o Her father provided her with reputable education which was uncommon for a Victorian woman.
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o At seventeen she experienced what she felt as a “divine call”.
o She visited sick people at home.
o In 1851, her father gave her permission to train as a nurse.
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THE CRIMEAN WAR (1854 – 1856)
England and France were helping Turkey in a war against
Russia. o France, England and Turkey declared war to Russia.
o Soon after the British soldiers arrived in Turkey they started to die from cholera and malaria.
o When the government heard about this they had to change their minds about women nursing men.
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THE CRIMEAN WAR (1854 – 1856)
England and France were helping Turkey in a war against Russia.
Russia & France had religious sisters to care for their wounded
But England had only trained men
Florence Nightingale received a letter of appeal from the Minister of war
With 38 nurses from Catholic and Protestant Orders she set for Crimea
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Wounded soldiers were transported by sea to the hospitals
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Through her tireless efforts the mortality rate among the sick and the wounded was
greatly reduced (from 42% to 2%)
• 5 – 6 nurses shared one room including eating and sleeping. They -
• Scrubbed and cleaned, improved drainage
• Procured soaps, towels and clothing
• Opened diet kitchens, made good food
• Visited the sick and wrote letters for them
• Set up laundries, reading rooms and post offices for them
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“THE LADY WITH THE LAMP”
o At night she carried a lamp while taking rounds from room to room to look after her patients.
o This earned her the affectionate title of "Lady with the Lamp."
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The soldiers kissed her shadow as she passed by and got solace from their
sufferings
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A FACELIFT TO NURSINGo She founded the Nightingale School and
Home for Nurses using money donated in tribute to her services.
o The school marked the beginning of professional education in the nursing field.
o Her book Notes on hospitals’ and ‘Notes on Nursing’ became the first definitive textbook for the field.
o Through selfless devotion and sheer determination, Florence Nightingale transformed the profession of nursing forever.
o She gave dignity and honor to Nursing, and revolutionized hospital conditions, making them more organized and above all, sanitary.
o 1907 – King Edward conferred on her the ‘Order of Merit’
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When she grew old…
o Florence Nightingale lived to a ripe old age of 90 years.
o 13 Aug 1910 - She died peacefully in her sleep
o Today the Nurses take the Florence Nightingale pledge before being formally initiated into the profession of Nursing.
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"The ultimate destination of all nursing is the nursing of the sick in their own homes.... I look to the abolition of all hospitals and workhouse infirmaries."
– Florence Nightingale
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"To do what nobody else will do, a way that nobody else can do, inspite of all we go through; is to be a NURSE.”
- Rawsi Williams
Thank you
RINEE KHANNA