If it had not been for Nightingale, perhaps the emergence and development of nursing would now be 100 or more years later than the trajectory of history. And how many wounded and sick people have been able to retrieve their lives and health from their injuries and illnesses because of Nightingale's presence in these one or two hundred years? Nighting once reduced the casualty mortality rate in the war zone from 42% to 2%! Academic merit aside, those who were not taken by death in those
decades because of real advances in nursing should be the greatest success of Nightingale and her philosophy of nursing development, and with so many living people, no greater praise could be given to the founder of our nursing.
Britain, in the mid-18th century, was already engaged in a vigorous industrial revolution. But the country's outlook, however, was still quite backward. In the British view, dealing with all kinds of patients is very dirty and dangerous. People shunned such words as "hospital" and "nursing" because they were horrible and humiliating things. Due to the backwardness of medical standards, coupled with the decline of the country and the frequent wars, in England after 1844, hospitals were almost synonymous with misfortune, degradation, sloppiness and chaos. Lacking the necessary management, it sometimes resembled a madhouse. In Florence Nightingale's opinion, the most unacceptable thing was not the terrible medical conditions mentioned above, but the bad reputation of the "nurses" in the hospital and their low quality. The image of the English nurse was that of a crude, aging woman, stupid, ignorant and incapable of performing medical tasks.
It can be imagined that Nightingale chose to be a nurse, for her noble birth, to risk much pressure and prejudice! Under pressure from many quarters, Nightingale never gave up, and gradually learned and accumulated her nursing experience in practice. 1853, her talent was finally discovered, and she was employed as the superintendent of the Nursing Association for Sick Women in London. In the same year, in the Charity Commission's financial support, Nightingale in London Harley Street No. 1 set up a nursing home, began to carry out her ambitions, she took a number of measures, so that people at the time marveled at. She adopted the patient call bell, set up a winch in the kitchen to carry meals to the sick, and emphasized that "any woman, regardless of creed, rich or poor, who is sick, can be taken in. ......" She showed remarkable ability in her work, and everyone obeyed her.
By 1855, the British saw her as the new Joan of Arc because of her outstanding performance in the field. Because of Nandin's high reputation, the profession of "nurse" gradually stood out, no longer an unskilled, ignorant, ignorant old woman image. Instead, it became a respected profession, with more young, highly qualified people involved, and eventually became an integral part of the medical establishment, and one of Nightingale's contributions was to change the status of the nursing profession.
In 1860, Nightingale donated a large sum of money from all walks of life in the UK in recognition of her service as the Nightingale Fund to create the Nightingale Training School for Nurses at St. Thomas' Hospital in London. The purpose of this school, which is regarded as the first formal nursing school in the world, was to make nursing a scientific profession and to test a new type of school that was not religious in nature. She had clear regulations on school management, selection of students, arrangement of courses, internships and evaluation of performance and formally established the nursing education system, creating the great cause of the modern nursing profession. This was an unprecedented contribution to mankind as a whole, and for this reason, she deserves to be hailed as the pioneer of nursing. Nandin's contribution to the second, really make nursing has a good foundation and long progress development.
In 1863, the naming and categorization of diseases in Britain was confusing, and hospitals around the world were doing their own thing. Nightingale's development of a standardized model of medical statistics, which was adopted by British hospitals one after another, is recognized as a remarkable contribution. This is another contribution of Nightingale to the advancement of nursing.
In addition, Nightingale developed a scientific theory of nursing. During her lifetime, Nightingale wrote a large number of reports and treatises, including Nursing Notes, Hospital Notes, Nursing Care of Health and Sickness, Nursing Care of Workers, Nursing Care in Rural Areas, and Lot Visiting and Home Nursing, among many other monographs. The most famous is Nursing Notes, which describes the guiding ideas and principles to be followed in nursing, and discusses in detail the observation of patients and the effects of spirituality, hygiene, and diet on patients. The book is known as a classic work on nursing. According to Nightingale, the concept of nursing is "the duty of protecting people's health and of caring for the patient in the best possible condition."
Nandingale pointed out the architectural shortcomings of many hospitals, arguing that the primary condition for the design of a hospital building is that it should not bring harm to the patient, and emphasizing that the building of a hospital does not depend on its luxury, but should be considered first and foremost for the patient's comfort, arrangement, well-being, and hygiene. According to the information she investigated on the hospital's environmental health management, the construction of wards, furnishings, the number of beds, cleaning equipment and facilitate the work and management of the layout, etc., have put forward a more detailed argument. 1859, Nightingale completed a book of hospital summary, hospital construction and hospital management, put forward a revolutionary theory. She emphasized that good construction, hygiene and management could lead to better patient care. She changed the concept of nursing by suggesting new ways of managing wards. The book was so influential and influential at the time that it was regarded as the definitive statement and model for hospital reform.
At the end of the article, there is a poem written about Nightingale by a British war patient: "She was unselfish, she had a pure heart, she gave her life for the suffering soldier; she prayed for the dying, she gave peace to the brave. She knew that the soldiers had a soul to save, and the wounded loved her, as we have seen and heard. She is our defender, she is our patron saint. Pray that God will give her the strength to keep her heart beating. Miss Nightingale - God's greatest blessing to us."
It is fair to say that Nightingale's contribution to nursing was immense, and in the more than 100 years since, no one has surpassed her achievements in nursing. With her great heart, unique charisma, and legendary story, she influenced many people at that time and in later generations. It was due to her efforts that the profession of nursing and the discipline of nursing began to be recognized by more people, and more experts and scholars began to study, research and develop modern nursing. Without Nightingale, there would be no modern nursing in today's health care system, the author believes that this is not an exaggeration at all.