Probationers kept diaries and case notes of their work, examined by the matron and home sister, and often by Nightingale.This training was also hands-on, e.g., by the trainee filling in for a sister or matron ill or on holiday, or a short-term appointment. Training was required for administrative positions (ward sisters and matrons) as well as ordinary staff.Midwifery nurses had to be hospital trained (again, to ensure exposure to a sufficient number and diversity of serious cases) even if they were to be conducting home deliveries.District nurses had to be hospital trained (or they would not see enough serious cases), the training augmented by supervised district visiting.organized remedial classes as necessary.acted as tutor for the classes given by doctors, and.The “home sister” or “mistress of probationers” organized the training, under the matron she was.Classes, given by medical doctors, augmented training in the wards.Training was fundamentally on the apprenticeship model: hands-on, in the wards, under the ward sister.(Military hospitals did not have a sufficient number and diversity of serious cases for training purposes) All nurses must be trained, in a regular civil hospital, regardless of social class or educational background, and regardless of where they would later nurse.1 Nightingale never set out a “Nightingale method of training,” but key elements can be discerned, as follows: Together these volumes cover the operation of the school from its founding, the development of other “Nightingale schools” at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Highgate Workhouse Infirmary and St Marylebone Workhouse Infirmary, district and workhouse nursing, and the influence of Nightingale’s nursing over the rest of the 19th century across London, Britain, Europe, America, Australia and around the world. Extending Nursing, volume 13, 946 pages.The Nightingale School, volume 12, 934 pages.Two volumes of the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale provide copious details: The answer to both questions posed on Nightingale’s nursing is YES. I thank the organizers of this discussion for the opportunity of presenting, but must regret that, in 2010, the hundredth anniversary of Nightingale’s death, the 150th anniversary of the founding of her school, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of her most famous book, Notes on Nursing, that the question has to be asked as to the distinctive nature of the Nightingale system of nursing (never her term) and its (considerable) influence.Ĭompare this with the celebration last year, on the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species, which was a real celebration of accomplishment, including debate as to specific aspects of his work, but nary a question as to whether or not he had any distinctive ideas or whether or not they were influential. Florence Nightingale’s Sermon “Strait is the Gate”įor a Conference September 14 2010, WindsorĪmerican Association for the History of Nursing and European Nursing History Group.

Celebration of the Life of Florence Nightingale, 2014.Address for Commemoration of Florence Nightingale.Address for 2020 Bicentenary of Nightingale’s Birth.

Florence Nightingale’s Radical Approach to Public Health Care.

Florence Nightingale: Maternal Mortality and Gender Politics.

Florence Nightingale and the Foundations of Public Health Care, as seen through her Collected Works.Florence Nightingale and the Christian Origins of Public Health Care.Florence Nightingale and Public Health Policy: Theory, Activism and Public Administration.Nightingale paper: Groniek issue on women The Timeless Wisdom of Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale: Social Theory and Methodology Florence Nightingale: Statistics to Save Lives Florence Nightingale: Passionate Statistician Florence Nightingale, Statistics and the Crimean War

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