The Nightingale Nurses: (Nightingales 3)

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The ceremony took place virtually with messages of support and inspiration from Gillian Prager, President of The Nightingale Fellowship, and Chief Midwifery Officer for England, Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent OBE. Source 4 – Extract from Rules and Regulations for the Nurses Attached to the Military Hospitals in the East. Catalogue ref: WO 43/963 The Nightingale Nurse and Nightingale Midwife Award was presented to 41 nurses and two midwives who now have the honour of being known as a ‘Nightingale Nurse’ or ‘Nightingale Midwife’. I watched a quiz show recently, where contestants were trying to guess a historical figure. All the clues pointed to a nurse who was at Crimea. Everyone guessed Florence Nightingale, but they’d missed a crucial clue, a reference to Kingston, Jamaica. The figure was, of course, Mary Seacole. Florence inherited a liberal-humanitarian outlook from both sides of her family. [7] Her parents were William Edward Nightingale, born William Edward Shore (1794–1874) and Frances ("Fanny") Nightingale ( née Smith; 1788–1880). William's mother Mary ( née Evans) was the niece of Peter Nightingale, under the terms of whose will William inherited his estate at Lea Hurst, and assumed the name and arms of Nightingale. Fanny's father (Florence's maternal grandfather) was the abolitionist and Unitarian William Smith. [13] Nightingale's father educated her. [12]

Avey Bhatia, Chief Nurse at Guy’s and St Thomas’, said: “It was wonderful to see so many of our nurses and midwives recognised for their outstanding work. They should all feel immensely proud of their achievements during such a challenging year. What inspires you? Seeing our patients walk out the door in a much better place than when they entered it. It is a small reminder of the positive work we do within our hospital and how we can actually change the lives of the people that come to us. To positively affect an individual’s life is quite a privilege and one that we can be very proud of and inspired by.Louise Breen , Advanced Nurse Practitioner–Endocrine, Diabetes & Endocrine Department, St Thomas’ Hospital, London REFERENCES Florence Nightingale was born in 1820. She was named after the Italian city Florence, where she was born. 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.

Lytton Strachey was famous for his book debunking 19th-century heroes, Eminent Victorians (1918). Nightingale gets a full chapter, but instead of debunking her, Strachey praised her in a way that raised her national reputation and made her an icon for English feminists of the 1920s and 1930s. [87] Why did you want to become a nurse? People with mental health illnesses often suffer in silence because their suffering is not always clear for everyone to see. Whilst we know that medical interventions can help treat most symptoms of mental health illnesses, sitting down and being with someone can be just as powerful; educating them, empowering them and not judging them. I love being there for people who need that someone, so why not do it as my job? Hands down the best job in the world! To ensure that the wounded were kept clean and fed well, Florence Nightingale set up laundries to wash linen and clothing and kitchens to cook food. This greatly improved the medical and sanitary arrangements at Scutari reduced the death rate. The work of Florence Nightingale and her nurses set the standards for modern day nursing. 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 LegacyHe 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 Source 6a – Front cover of a file about a statue for Florence Nightingale, Catalogue ref: WORK 20/67 Other women who nursed during the Crimean war are Mary Seacole and Elizabeth (Betsy) Davis. Both had approached Nightingale to work in her hospital at Scutari, but Seacole was turned down, and Davis was one of a party who were sent to Scutari but was not wanted by Nightingale. When planning sessions for the Society for Endocrinology BES conference or the Endocrine Nurse Update, the Society’s Nurse Committee jointly discusses the topics for presentation, the potential speakers and the chairs for the session. The programme is never put together in isolation and, once agreed, is ratified by the Society’s Programme Planning Committee. The history of nursing is affected by shifts in attitude to illness, injury and who is responsible for the care of those in need

Though Nightingale is sometimes said to have denied the theory of infection for her entire life, a 2008 biography disagrees, [47] saying that she was simply opposed to a precursor of germ theory known as contagionism. This theory held that diseases could only be transmitted by touch. Before the experiments of the mid-1860s by Pasteur and Lister, hardly anyone took germ theory seriously; even afterwards, many medical practitioners were unconvinced. Bostridge points out that in the early 1880s Nightingale wrote an article for a textbook in which she advocated strict precautions designed, she said, to kill germs. Nightingale's work served as an inspiration for nurses in the American Civil War. The Union government approached her for advice in organising field medicine. Her ideas inspired the volunteer body of the United States Sanitary Commission. [49] I was tasked with chairing and designing a session, and suggested diabetes insipidus. This topic was on the revolving programme agenda and very topical, given the patient safety alert issued in February 2016: ‘Stage one: warning. Risk of severe harm or death when desmopressin is omitted or delayed in patients with cranial diabetes insipidus’. 2 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. Act with integrity. The key requirements and benefits of achieving the Nightingale Nurse Award are highlighted in the Table.

Nursing Clio, an academic blog community sharing feminist histories of health and medicine, published a series of articles in response, under the title ‘Beyond Florence’. They argued that there is an important history of nursing before and after Florence Nightingale, which should be given more recognition. St Camillus de Lellis also led the care of Rome’s victims of the bubonic plague and became concerned with care of those at the end of life.

This prestigious award allows us to celebrate and develop our fantastic staff, and build on Florence Nightingale’s legacy of delivering high quality, compassionate care.” What is the most rewarding part of being a mental health nurse at Nightingale Hospital? Being able to work closely with various clinical disciplines, teams and departments in a way that allows innovation and change to be made in a way that is fluid and dynamic where you see the immediate impact of decisions that you have been a party to help and benefit others. A case in point is how we have been able to respond and deal with the challenges of the pandemic as a hospital. In addition to observing these historic and poignant processions, our 2,000 guests will hear reflections, biddings and prayers read by Officers and friends of the charity. Do we do them a disservice, dismissing them as not being ‘real’ nurses because they practiced before Florence?

At the time most nurses received no formal training but Nightingale did receive some training. In 1844 when she enrolled as a nursing student in a hospital in Germany. After this, Nightingale returned to England. She took a nursing job in a hospital, where she worked to improve the unsanitary close unsanitary A state of poor hygiene conditions which leads to an increased risk of the spread of disease. conditions. Our work in the RCN History of Nursing Forum often focuses on RCN members and their legacy, who all came after Nightingale. https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/lady-in-the-archives-the-life-of-florence-nightingale-part-two/