Florence Nightingale's Role In Nursing Practice

Even though evidence informed practice helps improve healthcare, there are still a few limitations. One main limitation is lack of time and accessibility. The best quality evidence is usually very difficult to locate, a busy nurse may not have the time to delve deep to find reliable sources. (NICE 2007) However there are now

Over the past two decades, EBP has expanded on Florence's theories. EBP constitutes the combination of clinical expertise, patient values, and research evidence when making decisions about patient care. In the 1990's, it was determined that just increasing knowledge was not sufficient for improving patient outcomes. To obtain better patient outcomes "new knowledge must be transformed into clinically useful forms, effectively implemented across the entire care team within a systems context,

Florence Nightingale was an immense impact on nursing, who “became famous for her revolutionary work as a nurse during the Crimean War” (Kent 30). “She dedicated her life to improving conditions in hospitals, beginning in an army hospital during the Crimean War,” (3 Registered). Her actions were then used by “concerned individuals, rather than by professionally trained nurses” during the Civil War, (Registered 279). Many of Nightingale’s ideas were brought into modern times, but with the improvement of technology and licensed nurses. With the influence and patience of Florence Nightingale, nursing has evolved into an outstanding career.

The concept of environment and its integral role in the delivery of nursing care was among the first identified and documented nursing theory since its early days. Florence Nightingale pioneered the profession of nursing and along with it, pioneered the concept of nursing theory. Her environmental theory was patient focused and incorporated five environmental components needed to promote health. Jarrin (2012) supported that the role of nursing is to promote the best possible environment for the patient to assist in their natural reparative process. According to Rahim (2013), as considered as the profession’s first nurse theorist, Florence Nightingale provided the essential foundation in environmental theory. She believed

Nurses are accountable to the professional body; the nursing and midwifery council (NMC), for ensuring their practice is the highest standard it can be and by doing this it helps uphold and carry out the best care possible. Nurses also have a duty when practising evidence based practise of showing a good use of resources; credible sources can include knowledge from clinical expertise, knowledge from patients and carers, department of health, the world health organisation, library catalogue and news and media. Showing a good range of resources like these, can demonstrate that nurses are getting an in depth range of evidences and that they are not just relying on one source of research which could impact the quality of their

It is important to understand why research within the nursing profession is essential. Amongst healthcare workers worldwide nurses are the largest professional group. Within the UK nurses and midwives represent the largest work force within the NHS. They are also the profession that has the most person to person contact with patients. As the decisions and actions that nurses make affect the lives of the whole population, it makes sense that nursing practice should be based on evidence (Parahoo 2006). Nurses are expected to deliver competent, high quality care in a compassionate but also cost effective manner. To accomplish these goals, nurses continually need to access and evaluate new information and incorporate this into their clinical decision making (Polit and Beck 2010).

According to CLPNA (2005), “nurses should ddemonstrate knowledge of the elements and impact of nursing research and evidence-based practice such as improved quality of practice and changes to practice based on new data. This competency is crucial for the professionalism in nursing practice”.

The provider of care is able to collect data from what is being discussed. After collecting data, the provider of care can then provide this information to whoever is collecting it. The provider of care can sometimes be the first one to know if the evidence-based practice is effective. “For an individual nurse, the nursing process requires that the nurse gather evidence before planning an intervention and subsequently guides the nurse to evaluate the effectiveness of care objectively” (Houser, 2015,p. 11). Without the using the basis of nursing, the nursing process, it is hard to get effective results that will benefit the project. During research, evidence-based practice, and theory knowledge, it is always very important

Healthcare around the world has improved in numerous aspects, thanks to the continued scientific research. Technological advances are today being used to simplify delivery of healthcare to people that need healthcare. However, nurses continue to face various challenges in healthcare provision due to poorly performing healthcare delivery systems, inequalities in healthcare and differences in healthcare delivery outcomes. As much of discovery of new regimens and diagnostic approaches and items, more emphasis is needed in the manner nurses utilize their knowledge in healthcare delivery. How do nurses put the knowledge and skills into practice and research? Hence, the gap between action and evidence can be filled. The drive for evidence-based

The paper herein provides a critical discussion of evidence based practice (EBP) in nursing. It clearly elaborates on the meaning and definition of EBP as used by nurses as well as the importance of evidence based decision making as it relates to nursing care. It broadly examines the concept of EBP in nursing care and its relevance to nursing practice and to the delivery of quality patient care. Subsequently, the essay will also expound on the broad research methods that are used in evidence based nursing and conclusively show how this evidence can be applied in day to day health care practice.

Research is an essential tool in nursing practice; it been an important link in best nursing care since the days of Florence Nightingale. Florence Nightingale participated in nursing

The concept of environment and its integral role in the delivery of nursing care was among the first identified and documented nursing concept since its early days. Florence Nightingale pioneered the profession of nursing and along with it, pioneered the concept of Nursing Theory. Her Environmental Theory was patient focused and incorporated five environmental components needed to promote health. Jarrin (2012) supported that the role of nursing is to promote the best possible environment for the patient to assist in their natural reparative process. It dates back from the time of ancient Greek philosophers and historians, including Plato, Hippocrates, and Aristotle, whose works are studied by Nightingale in her early years. According to Rahim (2013), as considered as the profession’s first nurse theorist, Florence Nightingale provided the essential foundation in environmental theory. She believed that some laws of nature, when applied and integrated into nursing care, can assist individuals in restoring their health during their illness, and, in those who are already healthy, promote health and prevent illness.

Florence Nightingale is one of the most influential and renowned person in nursing due to her contribution to the practice of what nursing is today from her theories, literatures, schools, etc. resulting for her to be called “the mother of modern nursing”. The book to be reviewed in this paper is by Reef (2017) entitled Florence Nightingale: The courageous life of the legendary nurse. The author of this paper with her background as a nurse knows how big Nightingale’s impact was for nursing and hopes she could be an influential leader in this field as well. Because of the curiosity of what Nightingale’s real history was, what are the works and accomplishments she has done, and what lead her to be one of the great leaders in nursing opted for the selection of this book. As the title of the book implies, the life of Florence Nightingale was narrated in this book from her birth to death. It included her love and passion for nursing, as well as, the struggles and achievements she has encountered and done to be a successful nurse and leader in this field. This paper will explore how Nightingale adopted leadership as a vocation; theoretical framework, style, leadership traits she practiced will also be examined; together with the qualities she emulated to inspire followership; and shortcomings of her leadership approach that the author of this paper will try to overcome.

Throughout Notes on Nursing, Florence Nightingale expresses the importance of proper care to patients. Another factor of nursing that was effected by Nightingale is the professionalism of nursing and how nursing is not only a science, but an art. Nightingale states how numerous subjects in nursing should be improved upon. The specific chapters that show how Nightingale has improved nursing within Notes on Nursing were Light, Personal Cleanliness, Chattering Hopes and Advices, and Ventilation and Warming. In chapter 9, Light, Florence Nightingale emphasizes the impact of sunlight on the patient and how it improves their health. Personal cleanliness was reviewed in chapter 11. Nightingale explores the importance cleanliness has on a patient. Within chapter 12, Nightingale states how to properly advise the sick, as well as give hope to patients. In chapter 1, Ventilation and Warming, Nightingale states the need for pure air within a patient’s room. These chapters express the importance of properly taking care of patients. The focus of this paper is how it was applied during Nightingale’s time and how it is still relevant today in nursing practice. The chapters within Notes on Nursing have had a profound impact on the practice of nursing today.

In the last couple of centuries, nursing career becomes one of the most important careers in the planet. This phenomenon occurs due to the help of nursing pioneers who advocated for the nursing career. These nursing’s advocates had developed the nursing philosophy and theory which has been served from their time until now. To talk about nursing advocates, no one cannot leave behind Florence Nightingale as a nurse pioneer who had advocated for the nursing career and played a tremendous role in nursing which can bring some changes in public policy change today. Basically, the nursing history had started with Nightingale.