Holistic approach to infection control and healing: the Florence Nightingale story
Bülent Gürlerİstanbul University, İstanbul Medical Faculty
Department of Clinical Microbiology
Çapa, İstanbul, Turkey
Email: gurlerb@netone.com.tr
Microbiology Australia 35(3) 174-176 https://doi.org/10.1071/MA14053
Published: 3 September 2014
Abstract
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), with a life devoted to the care of the sick and wounded, is the founder of modern nursing. She was named after the city ‘Florence' in Italy where she was born. She belonged to a rich and aristocratic family in England and with the encouragement of her father she received education in mathematics, religion, history and philosophy of education, as well as the languages, Latin, German, French and Italian. Rejecting authority and religious dogmas, she became a pioneer of human rights movement, advocating holistic thinking for mankind. At a young age, she began to visit hospitals, saddened by the inadequacies in the physical structures of hospitals, poor sanitation and patient care. These visits had a profound effect shaping her future endeavours as the founder of the nursing profession. In 1851 she gained nursing training in Germany and on her return to England she started to work as a nurse in a private hospital in London.
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