NR 393 Week 2 Discussion: Nightingale Information New to You: With Responses (GRADED A+)
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The basic story of Florence Nightingale is familiar to most nurses. This week we learned more about Nightingale’s life and work. Select one area of Nightingale’s leadershipthat was new to you and tell us how this changed your understanding of this important woman and her contributions to nursin...
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Week 3: Nightingale Information New to You
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Purpose
This week's graded discussion topic relates to the following Course Outcomes (COs).
CO2 Use lessons from nursing history to integrate clinical judgment into
professional nursing practice (PO 4)
CO3 Demonstrate responsibility for continued professional growth by exploring
the nursing and lay literature related to historical nursing practice (PO 5)
Discussion
The basic story of Florence Nightingale is familiar to most nurses. This week we learned
more about Nightingale's life and work. Select at least one piece of the Nightingale
legacy that was new to you and tell us how this changed your understanding of this
great woman and her contributions to nursing.
This week’s lesson piqued my interest as soon as I saw the topic. The name
Florence Nightingale is not an uncommon one especially among nurses as she is
known as the founder of modern nursing who changed the image of nursing in the
1800s (Judd and Sitzman, 2014). Some of her legacies emerged particularly during the
Crimean War while working hands-on 15-20 hours every day from simple tasks such as
making bandages and scrubbing floors to tending to the injured and sick soldiers where
she also earned a name as the “lady with the Lamp” (Foster, 2010).
One of the things that struck me the most was her actions in the Crimean War
where she emphasized the importance of sanitation and proper good hygiene. She
worked day and night, along with the nurses and the soldiers’ wives, to improve the
condition of the hospital in terms of cleanliness by washing clothes and linens, cleaning
bedpans and toilets, scrubbing pretty much everything and anything that can be
cleaned, which greatly reduced the mortality rate (Stevenson, 2010). During the first
semester of the nursing program, the importance of hand hygiene was heavily
emphasized, and continued to be given importance even to this day. I’m just pleased to
learn that Nightingale realized it back then and actually took an action and reformed the
way hospitals and such were run. She definitely changed the way of nursing, and made
huge contribution not just in our career but in the overall healthcare system and patient
outcome. In my own practice, we already implement good hand hygiene, but learning of
Nightingale's contributions encourages me even more to continue to strive in providing
excellent holistic quality care to my patients and their families.
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