We need to be cheerleaders when others are moaning doom-and-gloom. Lesson 10 — Aspiration: Nightingale never rested on her laurels, but rather continuously raised the bar. After proving that a more professional approach to nursing care would improve clinical outcomes, she helped found the first visiting nurses association, chartered the first modern school of professional nursing, and through her writing helped establish professional standards for hospital management.
She remained active virtually until the end of her life at the age of With more than , copies in circulation, the book serves as a manifesto for a culture of ownership that is emotionally positive, self empowered, and fully engaged. As you can see, when someone signs the Certificate of Commitment Florence is looking on.
I know she would approve. A concluding thought: Charles Dickens was a contemporary of Florence Nightingale. The opening line he penned for his classic novel A Tale of Two Cities certainly applies to healthcare today — it is the best of times, it is the worst of times.
Were she alive in our era, Nightingale no doubt would have focused on the best-of-times side of the ledger, and implored us to remember that taking care of the sick and injured is a mission, not just a business; that being a healthcare professional is a calling, not just a job. We might not be able to immediately change the external environment, but we can start right now promoting a culture of ownership within our organizations. How to Spark a Positive Culture Movement. To learn more about The Florence Challenge, and to download copies of the Certificate of Commitment, visit www.
Free Course. And we think we have a healthcare crisis! Beautiful, Clear Communication. Join the conversation. Top Picks 1. In addition to vastly improving the sanitary conditions of the hospital, Nightingale instituted an "invalid's kitchen" where appealing food for patients with special dietary requirements was prepared. She also established a laundry so that patients would have clean linens. Nightingale remained at Scutari for a year and a half. She left in the summer of , once the Crimean conflict was resolved, and returned to her childhood home at Lea Hurst.
To her surprise she was met with a hero's welcome, which the humble nurse did her best to avoid. Nightingale decided to use the money to further her cause. In , she funded the establishment of St. Nightingale became a figure of public admiration. Poems, songs and plays were written and dedicated in the heroine's honor. Young women aspired to be like her. Eager to follow her example, even women from the wealthy upper classes started enrolling at the training school.
Thanks to Nightingale, nursing was no longer frowned upon by the upper classes; it had, in fact, come to be viewed as an honorable vocation. Based on her observations during the Crimea War, Nightingale wrote Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army , a massive report published in analyzing her experience and proposing reforms for other military hospitals.
Her research would spark a total restructuring of the War Office's administrative department, including the establishment of a Royal Commission for the Health of the Army in Nightingale was also noted for her statistician skills, creating coxcomb pie charts on patient mortality in Scutari that would influence the direction of medical epidemiology. While at Scutari, Nightingale had contracted the bacterial infection brucellosis, also known as Crimean fever, and would never fully recover.
By the time she was 38 years old, she was homebound and routinely bedridden, and would be so for the remainder of her life. Residing in Mayfair, she remained an authority and advocate of health care reform, interviewing politicians and welcoming distinguished visitors from her bed. In , she published Notes on Hospitals , which focused on how to properly run civilian hospitals. Throughout the U.
Civil War, she was frequently consulted about how to best manage field hospitals. Nightingale also served as an authority on public sanitation issues in India for both the military and civilians, although she had never been to India herself.
In , she was conferred the Order of Merit by King Edward , and received the Freedom of the City of London the following year, becoming the first woman to receive the honor. In May , she received a celebratory message from King George on her 90th birthday. In August , Nightingale fell ill but seemed to recover and was reportedly in good spirits.
A week later, on the evening of Friday, August 12, , she developed an array of troubling symptoms. She died unexpectedly at around 2 p. Characteristically, she had expressed the desire that her funeral be a quiet and modest affair, despite the public's desire to honor Nightingale—who tirelessly devoted her life to preventing disease and ensuring safe and compassionate treatment for the poor and the suffering. Respecting her last wishes, her relatives turned down a national funeral. The "Lady with the Lamp" was laid to rest in her family's plot at St.
While Nightingale is known for her gentleness, she had a very strong and resolute character. She trained as a nurse in Kaiserswerth hospital in Germany in and later cared for cholera patients in London as the superintendent of a hospital in Harley Street. The women, banned from the cholera wards, were literally thrown into action when masses of wounded men arrived from the battlefields of Balaclava and Inkerman. Multitudes of suffering soldiers quickly overwhelmed the hospital.
Nightingale swiftly mobilized her group and took charge. Charles J. A dim light burnt here and there. Miss Nightingale carried her lantern, which she would set down before she bent over any of the patients. The soldiers derived both emotional comfort and physical relief from the care of the nurses.
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