THE HEART OF NURSING THE SCIENCE OF HOLISM The White Heart The White Heart Is The Universal Symbol For Nursing. It Is Meant To Characterize The Caring, Knowledge And Humanity That Infuse The Work And Spirit Of Nursing. The White Heart Is Also A Unifying Symbol For Nurses Globally. White Was Selected Because It Brings Together All Colours, Demonstrating Nursing’s Acceptance Of All People. White Also Has A Worldwide Association…
But was advocated and implemented by Florence Nightingale. • That typhus is spread by body lice • That fleas and rates and flies are key vectors of disease. • That good nutrition is specially important to the sick. • That dysentery, diarrhea and fever can often be caused by improperly prepared food. • That a wound not cleaned and debrided of nectrotic tissue every day will develop gangrene • That…
A Trip to Egypt 39 letters written to her family- on her return her sister Parthenope insisted on putting her letters into print- Florence refused – Never the less Parthe persisted and if it had not been for Parthe – these letters would have been lost to us. In one of her letters to her father Florence tells him that she is desperate to escape the bitterness and pain of…
Florence Nightingale had a pet owl called ‘Athena’- the owl died when Florence was undertaking preparations to go out to save dying soldiers in the hospital at Scutari. Florence Nightingale learnt Greek, Latin and mathematics at the age of ten from her father. 4th November 2004 marked the 150th anniversary of Florence Nightingales arrival at Scutari (Uskuder Turkey) When Florence Nightingale had whooping cough her 13 dolls had it too…
Henri Dunant, speech on Florence Nightingale at the Geneva Convection (August, 1864) To the many who pay their homage to Miss Nightingale, though a very humble person of a small country, Switzerland, I yet want to add my tribute of praise and admiration. As the founder of the Red Cross and originator of the diplomatic Convention of Geneva, I feel emboldened to pay my homage. To Miss Nightingale I give…
The role of nursing as having ‘charge of somebody’s health’ based on the knowledge of “how to put the body in such state to be free of disease or to recover from disease.” (Nightingale 1860) Form ‘Me’ to ‘You’ If nurses are to serve the sick, serve the people at large, and serve well – then it has to be an individualistic, humane, holistic approach – the minute we refer…
“This system dooms some minds to incurable infancy, others to silent misery” Florence Nightingale (Speaking of the systematic ways in which women’s Florence Nightingale faced gender – related difficulties and frustrations- These difficulties and frustrations still exist for women in the developing world and in traditional communities everywhere. The right of women to fulfill their talents, enter the public sphere, lead independent lives, and freely follow their highest aspirations is…
Vit C is now known to be essential for the formation of scar tissue and the healing of wounds; Nightingale provided her soldiers plenty of lemons vinegar and lime juice. Within 10 days of her arrival in scutari she had succeeded in establishing a special kitchen where extra diets could be prepared. Regular digestible and nutritious food was served to the soldiers. She inspected the central kitchen, installed new cooks…
‘They who think they can and dare, get new things done.’ Having worked on a cholera ward, Nightingale kernel just how ineffective medical treatment was, and had reached the conclusion that prevention was the best way to approach disease. Florence Nightingale had done a great deal of serious reading in what might now be called epidemiology, and she had an unusually informed understanding of what was happening at Scutari. e.g….
“I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions, which bring results.” Florence Nightingale Florence and her nurses were not allowed entry into the wards for almost a week so they occupied themselves in making shirts, pillows, slings, straw beds etc. Out of the 38 nurses that accompanied her to Scutari only 16 were considered by her satisfactory. She enforced rigid rules for…