Nursing Heritage

The nursing pioneer I chose was Florence Nightingale. I felt I could relate most to her with my experience in a hospital setting. When I read about how Nightingale first found the soldiers in a hospital still wearing the dirty uniforms they had been brought there in, it triggered some experiences of patients coming to my floor from the ER after being in a car accident. The patients were not clean and still wearing the clothes they had on during the accident. Nightingale changed the way that hygiene and elementary care were viewed. …