Florence Nightingale: The Mother of Nursing.
Karimi H, Masoudi Alavi N -Nursing and midwifery studies(2015)
fig20156:A Polar-Area Diagram, Invented by Florence Nightingale
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Affiliation:Medical-Surgical Department, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, IR Iran.
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Florence Nightingale (Figure 1), the founder of modern nursing of professional nursing, was born in Florence, Italy, on 1820, in an English family; she was named of the city of her birth... Injured soldiers were left on the floor and the few doctors desperately were trying to manage patients with basic facilities, in dirty environment... She provided medical equipment, clean water and fruits... With this work the mortality rate decreased from 60% to 42% and then to 2.2%... With the establishment of this school, she changed nursing to a respectful profession. : Florence Nightingale in the last years of her life was suffering from a disease, which she acquired it during her service in Crimea... She insisted on the importance of building trusting relationships with patients... Empathy with patient and making a common experience in moving toward health has been validated by Florence nightingale that reaches us to an aesthetic nursing care... Radmehr et al. in a phenomenological study that is published in the present issue of Nursing and Midwifery Studies reported that understanding beyond words, creating a good and nice feeling by making the patient happy, and the sense of unity by perceiving the patient and the nurse as one existence are some aesthetic aspects of nursing ; and showed that Iranian nurses also follow the spirit of nursing that has been established by Florence Nightingale... Florence services were the first efforts to relieve suffering during war... She died in 13 August 1910 at the age of ninety... There are some sentences of Florence included in Table 1.

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Florence was like mother for soldiers. She took the lamp every night and used to go to patients’ camp (3). Her great work attracted the attentions in England (5). She also used her fame and succeeded to attract the support of the Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and Prime Minister Lord Palmerston. Florence asked them to have a permission to do an official investigation in the context of the military hospitals. The request was agreed and then the Royal Institute of research on the health of the military established. She was a great humanitarian and scientific figure. Nightingale was also a well-known statistician as she has invented a special pie chart (Figure 2) (2).
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