Transcript Florence Nightingale- Her Legacy

Florence Nightingale –
Legend and Legacy
ANGIE STRAWN, MSN, RN
DOCTORAL STUDENT
OCTOBER, 2010
OMICRON DELTA CHAPTER
SIGMA THETA TAU
Overview
 The Early Years – 1820 - 1854
 The Crimea – 1854 - 1856
 The Lady With the Lamp - 1855
 Fame and Reform – 1856 - 1871
 Nightingale’s Voice – 1871 - 1910
Family Background
 Father - William Edward (Shore) Nightingale
 Mother - Frances (Fanny) Smith
 Married - June 1, 1818
 Sister - Parthenope born April 19, 1819 in Naples,
Italy
 Florence - born May 12, 1820 in Florence, Italy
The Nightingale Estate, Embley Park
To Feel Her Presence
 Florence moved into
Embley Park at age 5
 The little girl who came
down these stairs
 Who rejected the wealth
of her parents
 Who developed a social
conscience that changed
the world
To Understand Her Childhood
 The student who learned
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at her father’s knee
The student who studied
for hours each day
Self-directed and goal –
oriented
Affinity for languages
and math
Bandaged dolls and pets
Earliest surviving letter –
age 7
February 7, 1837
 Florence writes, “God spoke to me and called me to
his service.”
The Victorian Era
 Moved by social problems
 Grew to hate Embley Park for the wealth it
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represented (19 servants; 39 gardeners).
Tension in family – wanted to escape the social scene
Caused stress and mental strain
Traveled to Greece, Egypt, Germany
Kaiserswerth experience
1853 – Superintendent of Establishment for
Gentlewomen in London
The Crimea 1854-1856
 Left for the Crimea on October 21st, 1854 with 38
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nurses.
Duty was to assist at the Barracks Hospital, Scutari
Nightingale and her staff were not welcomed
Her research and statistics show dramatic decrease
in deaths among injured.
The coxcomb graphic of statistical data
Promoted fresh sir, sanitation, cleanliness
Crimea fever – now known as brucellosis
Scutari
Lady with the Lamp – February 24, 1855
Fame and Reform
 Returned to London, late 1856
 Now a famous person
 Wrote Notes on Nursing and Notes on Hospitals
 Next five years at the Burlington Hotel, would not
return to Embley Park
 Suffered the ravages of brucellosis
 Wrote!!!
Nightingale School of Nursing
 Founded in 1960 at former St. Thomas Hospital
 World’s first secular training school for nurses
 Designed pavilion style hospital wards
 Applied concepts from her writings
 Continued to gather data and do research
Nursing Pin of the Nightingale School
St. Thomas Hospital
 New hospital opened in
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1871
Four miles of halls
Pavilion style wards
Ventilation on both sides
1872-1900: 13 Letters to
Nurses
St. Thomas Hospital
Modest London Memorial
F.N. 1820-1910
 A simple grave in the
country church yard
 Family refused the
Westminster Abbey
burial
Only Two Women Stand in London
 Queen Victoria and
Florence Nightingale
 Statue dedicated in 1915
 Note the lamp
Her Legend
 Founding philosopher of nursing
 14,000+ letters
 Advocate for healing environments
 Evidence-based practice
 Nurse theorist
 Nursing as spiritual practice
 In Myers-Briggs – INTJ
 Visionary leader
 Passionate statistician
You Are Her Legacy
The Tenets of Nightingale’s Legacy
 Calls for a focus on caring
 Promoted health not just treatment of disease
 Global perspective – health for all
 Community health – collaboration
 Concern for those in poverty – urban and rural
 Be a voice for advocacy
 Holistic focus that includes spirituality
 Leadership for change
 Nursing is a calling
In her own words…
 Were there none who were discontented with what
they have, the world would never reach anything
better.
- Florence Nightingale
Allow your discontent to change nursing, nursing
education, and our world so you can become the
legacy of your calling, inspired by Nightingale.
- Angie Strawn
References and Recommended Readings
 Bostridge, M. (2008). Florence Nightingale: The making of an icon.
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New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Dossey, B. M. (2010). Florence Nightingale: Mystic, visionary,
healer. Philadelphia, PA: F. A. Davis.
Dossey, B. M., Selanders, L. C., Beck, D. M., & Attewell, A. (2005).
Florence Nightingale today: Healing, leadership, global
action. Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Association.
Gregson, J. (2010). A band of angels: A novel. Austin, TX:
Touchstone.
Nightingale, F. (1859). Notes on nursing. New York, NY: Barnes &
Noble
Nightingale, F. (1859). Notes on hospitals.
Perry, A. (2009). A sudden, fearful death. New York, NY:
Ballantine Books.