Nursing has always contributed to the development and improvement of medicine, as some distinguished professionals have brought new and valuable ideas to the field. One such nurse was Florence Nightingale, who devoted herself to the study of war wounds and sacrifice. As a result of her extended analysis of military brutality, the nurse developed her statistics system, which later became widely used in hospitals.
Nightingale was a direct participant in the war, where she showed her professionalism and fearlessness. As a result of her wartime activities, the nurse was inspired by the study of war sacrifice to show the inhumanity of war. Nightingale introduced pie charts to count deaths in the Crimean War and later distributed them to politicians (Kim and Mallory and Valerio, 2020). Above all, this idea was to unify the statistics collected by hospitals, such as the number of patients admitted to hospitals. Also it analyzed the number, who were cured, who were discharged as incurable, and the average time spent in the hospital (Kim and Mallory and Valerio, 2020). The effectiveness of this approach led to health care reform, the primary purpose of which was to actively introduce charts and statistics into medicine to obtain more reliable data. In addition to the idea of statistical data, Nightingale ensured that hospitals were equipped with ventilation and sanitation systems and that hospital staff were mandatorily trained. Nightingale’s ideas gained widespread popularity in the nursing profession. Firstly, the reforms made it easier for nurses to gather and process the information needed to deal with actual illnesses and injuries (McDonald, 2017). Secondly, Nightingale’s enthusiasm encouraged many professionals to work for an idea rather than for profit. It is seen in the nurse’s authority in her professional environment and the legends that began to build around her personality (McDonald, 2017). In the end, one of the psychological syndromes was named after the heroine, the essence of which is the emergence of the doctor’s love for the patient as a result of prolonged treatment (McDonald, 2017). Thus, Florence Nightingale’s contribution to nursing has been invaluable.
References
McDonald, L. (2017). Florence Nightingale, Nursing, and health care today. Springer Publishing Company.
Kim. M., Mallory, C. & Valerio, T. (2020). Statistics for evidence-based practice in nursing. Jones & Barlett Learning.