Exploring Florence Nightingale's Contributions to Modern Nursing

This report explores the contributions of Florence Nightingale, a nursing leader who made significant contributions to modern nursing. It discusses her attributes and values, including professional socialization and integrity, and highlights her achievements in the field of nursing and healthcare services, such as the development of the environmental theory and the establishment of nursing foundations.

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INTRODUCTION
The nursing leader Florence Nightingale was English social reformer, founder of modern
nursing who has been proficiently working towards field of improvised nursing practices rapidly.
Report will analyze attributes and work contributions in field of Modern Nursing and use of
leadership, for further improving work criteria diversely.
Brief Biographical Outline of nursing leader- Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale was born on May 12, 1820 in Florence, Italy. She was raised at
family estate at Lea Hurst where her father provided her with classic education including studies
in German, Italian and French. Florence Nightingale spent career working towards establishing
nursing training practices with high creative leadership engagement, variedly in field and paving
way for nursing in current form (Susan and et.al, 2016). The leader came to prominence while
serving as leader and trainer in nurse, where she organized care for wounded soldiers at
Constantinople known for brave and selfless leadership aspects variedly evolving towards
nursing practices. Florence Nightingale displayed high force on unity, where leadership and
ideals correlating towards saving sick people by nursing practices further enhanced her outlook
towards serving people. One of the most important innovation and contribution done in field of
nursing, has been found towards enhanced expertise related to cleanliness and sanitation. Notes
on nursing, her book has been found to be one of the prime achievement where hospitals and

nursing practices are widely explained based upon new leadership activities taken up (Prestia,
2021).
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language is used is very poor. Can you please mention 2 main contributions and achievements
made by Florence Nightingale in the field of nursing. And on the reflection section, the answer
has to be very insightful and in-depth and I think the writer has written very surfacial level of
answer which is not relevant to the question
Attributes and values of the effetcive leader
Attributes of leader, Florence Nightingale working in field of modern nursing has been
widely imperative and in accordance towards bringing new values oriented in system for larger
working efficiency which brings on rise diversely (Wang, Zhu & Duan, 2021). The visionary
modern nursing leader, has delivered some globally renowned attributes to patients where
knowledge and specialization has motivated people. Florence Nightingale, confidently
possessed attributes of leader within nursing practices. Attributes such as high confident within
personality and values such as taking productive initiatives, learnings form various case studies
variedly heading to bring on rapid functional rise diversely. Two significant attributes, displayed
by Florence Nightingale are professional socialization and integrity.
 Professional socialization: Florence nightingale worked on commitment to educate,
commitment to speak out and bring on appealing new healthcare services for stringent
potential growth parameters. The nursing education in modern science, has been
specifically advancing within her leadership where main optimum focus by her was
evolved towards bringing best scale services rapidly (Pieter and et.al, 2019).The leader
had proficiently worked in field of nursing, worked towards integrating best resources for
medical services among patients and to further enhance healthcare practices diversely.
Her professional socialization ideologies for enhanced health services has been heading
to bring on healthy environment at place, engage with best scale efficacy for rights
among nurses in field of nursing. The effective leaders have worked proficiently in field
by contributing towards environmental theory implementation, and also bringing book on
medical, nursing practices (Juan, 2021). Contribution of Florence Nightingale has been

significantly vast, where the leader enhanced working expertise related to nursing
healthcare services for delivering best services.
 Integrity: Florence Nightingale had integrity, which also headed focus towards taking up
transformative leadership with evolving new competencies and high scale creative
innovation for learning motivation practices. Leader has been motivating within teams,
by providing acknowledged medication knowledge and focusing towards integrating best
principles of healthcare significant competencies variedly for longer productive
advancement (Pipe and et.al, 2016). Nightingale was active in philanthropy from young
age, where leader had dedicated life to medical care resulting lifetime commitment
towards modern nursing (Nease & Leimberger, 2021). Integrity of Florence Nightingale
helped her in developing a successful career and made her remember for her work for
more then a century. The leader also holds nursing modern skills, where professional
expertise has been competitively growing in leader where Florence Nightingale displays
excellence personification
Two significant contributions and achievements
There have been various significant contributions done in field of nursing and healthcare
services by Florence Nightingale, where leader has been taking up varied new steps for
empowering new ideologies variedly. It can be also understood that leadership goals, has been
rapidly evolving to bring on high scale efficacy for strategic keen productivity among nurses to
contribute towards modern nursing (Lopyola & Oliveira, 2021).
 Florence Nightingale has a huge contribution in environment as well. She contributed in
developed of environmental theory. environmental theory is based on five points where
leader has been globally recognized for high courageous contributions, specific
leadership factors for providing high scale contribution while working as nurse. The
leader has been also acknowledged to bring on rapid innovation, creativity for the field of
medical healthcare and nursing with changing rapid engagement practices actively. The
act of utilizing patient environment heads on profound focus on 5 environmental factors:
which are fresh air, pure water, efficient drainage, cleanliness and sanitation and direct
sunlight (Harris, 2021).

 Florence Nightingale also contributed in explaining important internal and external
environmental points that can help in enhancement of overall health of people. As per the
theory of Florence Nightingale, patient health and external environment ans its associated
factors plays an important role with regard to its speedy recovery. This means with the
exposure of positive surrounding, patient's rate of recovery will be high in comparison of
negative environment. Here along with environment the role of nurse in enabling such
surrounding is also important. This means if nurse will make the surrounding as per
patient canons then it will lead to restore patient health along with bringing it to recovery
(Trafford, (2018)). This theory also focus that the nurses need to be educated and trained
with regard to their position so that better healthcare and treatment to patient will be
provided. This is again associated with the positive environment building. Leader
emphasized focus on training nurses, with advanced healthcare practices and also
primitively advancing towards best nursing attributes of practices.
 One of the main achievement of Florence Nightingale was that she had established such
accurate nursing foundations that in later years in nursing a curriculum of her practices
was developed. Nightingale wrote Notes on nursing novel (1859), which was foundation
of curriculum for nursing school and nursing optimum practices, where the leader
ideologies and theories related to nursing education has been discussed. Notes of matters
affecting health, efficiency and hospital administration has been imperatively focusing to
bring on wider scale productivity towards modern medical services. (Kiwanuka & et.al,
(2021)). as per its notes on nursing novel it is not being made with the treating of its as
guide but it is associated with the aspect of helping in the practice of nurse while making
treatment. This novel plays an important role when there was no adequate rules with
regard to treatment in hospitals and when nurses was ignorant. This novel act as base that
guides the basic of nursing in terms of enabling education by becoming as base for
curriculum of nursing (Matthews & et.al,. (2020)). As this novel is based on the concept
of what it is and what it is not so with the consideration of this principle, a standard
format and framework will be enabled to nurses so that with the compliance of this
framework better work in terms of enabling best care to patient will be enabled by nurse.

Achievements of Florence Nightingale, also enables us to gain knowledge of various
medical and healthcare contributions related with advanced socialization which had
begun in century. The leader has been significantly confident while leading nursing
practices, and also bringing new advanced expertise within medical facilities.
Reflection
Along with raising the requirement of professional in healthcare aspect of the economy. It
is very important that a focus over the aspect of good leadership along with nursing will need to
be lied down. This is because a nurse makes an important contribution with regard to patient
health. As per the above research I learned a lot with regard to leadership and associated
attributes of Florence Nightingale. As per the work of Nightingale I learned a lot with regard to
my professional career of nurse. I learn that how along with medicine, nurse plays an important
role in terms of enabling positive environment to a patient. Likewise, I also learned that how I
need to work so that I would be able to understand my patient need and by enabling its such
environment how I will play my role in the context of recovery of patient. I also learn that how I
need to consider the case as a source of learning (Hanna, (2018)). With this research I also
developed confidence with regard to dealing with patient. I learn that I always need to be
innovative with regard to dealing my patient. Likewise, by considering my previous case I need
to learn my mistakes and try to get more efficient so that better services will be enabled by me
with regard to my professional career.
With the research in the context of Nightingale I learned the participative leadership that
with the contribution of every colleague and team, critical case can also be dealt easily. I also
learned that I need to be always innovative which means that I need to be ready to dealt with
adverse situation along with enabling best treatment so that patient health will be recovered at
fast rate. With this research I also learned that I don't need to limit myself with respect to self-
thinking. This means I learn teamwork and always taking steps with respect to benefit for the
team. I also understood the importance of training and learning about the use of new instrument.
In the same way by conducting research on Nightingale I also analyze that I always need to be
complied with the trans-formative leadership style so that the changing trends and mode of
treatment would be able to learn by me. This is because trans-formative leadership is related with
bringing transformation and changes (Montuori & Donnelly (2017)).

This knowledge and learning will proves to be very helpful for me in with regard to my
professional career and field. Being a nursing student, the learning from Nightingale will assist
me to deal with the patient in effective manner. Likewise, its mode of leadership will also guide
me to deal with my team and enabling best care and treatment to my patient. Nightingale will be
considered as my ideal and this research including attributes and contribution of Nightingale
would guide me to deal in my future professional life in terms of being an effective nurse.
Likewise, the learning and knowledge which is being grabbed from the research of Florence
Nightingale will proves to be useful in professional context in terms of leading the team along
with enabling best care and treatment to patient. This will also lead to help in safeguarding the
human right along with enabling best care to the patient in the future course of action.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is concluded that leadership plays an important role with regard
to dealing with patient in the area of healthcare. It will lead to have synchronization of work
along with its management in terms of performance of work. Like other field leadership and its
attributes is very important in the context of nursing because it will lead to have enabling of
better treatment and care to patient.

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