#Florence nightingale rose diagram professional
For some years, she travelled all over the UK and other countries where she visited health institutions to complete her professional training. Strongly focused on making her dream come true, Nightingale studied Science and Maths, defying the opposition of her family and the strict social conventions of Victorian society, which had marriage as the only decent future for women. Since she was very young, she felt the need to dedicate her life to take care of sick people. Nightingale (12 th May 1820 – 13 th August 1910) was born and raised in a wealthy British family.
In addition, she was a feminist with strong beliefs, even before the suffragette movement emerged, who promoted and claimed equal opportunities for nurses as health professionals.įigure 1. Thanks to her, hospitals and health centres started to impose basic hygienic measures such as hand washing, and professional nursing began with the creation of the first non-religious Nursing schools. Therefore, I find it is a good time to commemorate the woman considered to be “the mother of modern nursing”: Florence Nightingale. For that reason, I would like to use this post to highlight and acknowledge their work not only because of their wonderful response to the current situation, but also for all the times throughout the history that they have been there when our health has gone down hill. I am talking about health professionals, specially nurses, who suffer long and stressful work days while risking their own lives to take care of ourselves and our loved ones. Nevertheless, daily gestures of gratitude have emerged to acknowledge the efforts of one of the professional bodies that has been working tirelessly to stop the spread of the disease and reduce the amount of deceased. In these days, the health crisis caused by the COVID-19 outbreak has forced most Europeans into a stay at home quarantine.
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