The Nightingale Nurses: (Nightingales 3)

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February the 21st marks World Mental Health Nurses’ Day (#MHNursesDay); a day that calls to celebrate, describe and promote the mental health nursing profession in the UK.

Her writings on Egypt, in particular, are testimony to her learning, literary skill, and philosophy of life. Sailing up the Nile as far as Abu Simbel in January 1850, she wrote of the Abu Simbel temples, "Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering ... not a feature is correct — but the whole effect is more expressive of spiritual grandeur than anything I could have imagined. It makes the impression upon one that thousands of voices do, uniting in one unanimous simultaneous feeling of enthusiasm or emotion, which is said to overcome the strongest man." [18] Nightingale was a prodigious and versatile writer. In her lifetime, much of her published work was concerned with spreading medical knowledge. Some of her tracts were written in simple English so that they could easily be understood by those with poor literary skills. She was also a pioneer in data visualisation with the use of infographics, using graphical presentations of statistical data in an effective way. [7] Much of her writing, including her extensive work on religion and mysticism, has only been published posthumously.Once the Islamic state was established in Medina, Rufaidah set up a hospital tent outside the Prophet’s mosque. He introduced the practice of waiting fifteen minutes past the moment when the patient appeared to have breathed their last to avoid people being buried alive and is credited with saving many people through this intervention. Public health

Often called “the Lady with the Lamp,” Florence Nightingale was a caring nurse and a leader. In addition to writing over 150 books, pamphlets and reports on health-related issues, she is also credited with creating one of the first versions of the pie chart. However, she is mostly known for making hospitals a cleaner and safer place to be. Nightingale underwent the first of several experiences that she believed were calls from God in February1837 while at Embley Park, prompting a strong desire to devote her life to the service of others. In her youth she was respectful of her family's opposition to her working as a nurse, only announcing her decision to enter the field in 1844. Despite the anger and distress of her mother and sister, she rejected the expected role for a woman of her status to become a wife and mother. Nightingale worked hard to educate herself in the art and science of nursing, in the face of opposition from her family and the restrictive social code for affluent young English women. [15] Painting of Nightingale by Augustus Egg, c.1840s Do we do them a disservice, dismissing them as not being ‘real’ nurses because they practiced before Florence? While at Scutari, Nightingale had contracted “Crimean fever” and would never fully recover. By the time she was 38 years old, she was homebound and bedridden and would be so for the remainder of her life. Fiercely determined and dedicated as ever to improving health care and alleviating patients’ suffering, Nightingale continued her work from her bed. Every year, on 12 May, we mark International Nurses Day. It’s not just a celebration of nursing, it’s also the birthday of one of the world’s most famous nurses, Florence Nightingale. We knew 2020, two centuries since her birth, would be a big occasion. But with the COVID-19 pandemic highlighting similarities between Nightingale’s experiences and those of nursing staff today, it’s taken on new significance.Why did you want to become a nurse? I wanted to become a nurse because I would see my mum come home after work and share her experiences with me and the passion and fire she had ignited the passion I now have which is what still drives me at present. Rufaidah bint Sa-ad (also known as Rufaida Al-Aslamia and Rufayda al-Aslamiyyah) has been recognised as the first female Muslim nurse. Born around 620 CE the daughter of a physician, through assisting him she learned about patient care.

In 1908, at the age of 88, she was conferred the merit of honor by King Edward. In May of 1910, she received a congratulatory message from King George on her 90th birthday. Florence Nightingale: Death and Legacy In 1972, the poet Eleanor Ross Taylor wrote "Welcome Eumenides", a poem written in Nightingale's voice and quoting frequently from Nightingale's writings. [93] Adrienne Rich wrote that "Eleanor Taylor has brought together the waste of women in society and the waste of men in wars and twisted them inseparably." [94] Theology Why did you want to become a nurse? I wanted to become a nurse because my siblings and I had the privilege to care for our aged, grandparents who had dementia and cancer until their death. I also had an Aunt who died from a mental health-related illness. Due to the above, I wanted to do something that is challenging and that would make a difference in people’s lives. I am a naturally caring, curious person and I wanted to use this attitude in helping people to the best of my abilities. I have always had the innate desire to help people and care for them in times of need. I’m also blessed to have a wonderful mother from whom I learned so much. My mother is very caring and generous in her love for others, and caring for their needs. Individuals were later presented with their personally engraved badge and certificate by Toni Lynch, Interim Chief Nurse, and Fiona Hibberts, Co-Head of the Nightingale Academy.Our work in the RCN History of Nursing Forum often focuses on RCN members and their legacy, who all came after Nightingale. Now get into a group of three. One person should play the part of the woman who wants to go to the Crimea as a nurse. The other two play Florence and Sidney and ask the questions you have decided on. At the end you must decide, the person gets the job as a nurse in the Crimea. When Nightingale approached her parents and told them about her ambitions to become a nurse, they were not pleased. In fact, her parents forbade her to pursue nursing. During the Victorian Era, a young lady of Nightingale’s social stature was expected to marry a man of means—not take up a job that was viewed as lowly menial labor by the upper social classes.

She started a nursing school at St. Thomas' Hospital in 1860 and wrote books so that nurses could be properly trained to do their job. The fact that she had data quantification skills to create a record of what had happened was another gift. That’s why she’s still relevant,” says Anne Marie. “And that’s what we need to do today – we need to understand why this has happened, capture the experiences of patients, and also capture the experiences of nurses.” RCN President Professor Anne Marie Rafferty co-edited Notes on Nightingale, a collection of essays about her life and legacy. “She was essentially a celebrity in her own lifetime and achieved that iconic status early on,” says Anne Marie. “Her image was of great appeal to the public and must have been a source of tremendous reassurance. Many of those feminised virtues – compassion, heroism and sacrifice – are very powerful during times of crisis and seem to coalesce around female figures.” Supplies and hygieneIndividuals will be presented with their personally engraved badge and certificate later this year. A new generation of Nightingales have been celebrated with a unique professional award at Guy’ at St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. Four hospitals in Istanbul are named after Nightingale: Florence Nightingale Hospital in Şişli (the biggest private hospital in Turkey), Metropolitan Florence Nightingale Hospital in Gayrettepe, European Florence Nightingale Hospital in Mecidiyeköy, and Kızıltoprak Florence Nightingale Hospital in Kadıköy, all belonging to the Turkish Cardiol Why did you want to become a nurse? I fell into nursing and stayed because I have the aptitude and passion for nursing Nightingale’s evidence-based approach was one of the first steps towards professionalising nursing. In her time, nursing was thought of as a domestic task done by women or religious figures. Her 1859 book Notes on Nursing was meant mostly for a domestic audience but, for the first time, defined what nursing was.