Florence Nightingale: Requirements When Taking Care Of Patients

Florence Nightingale: Requirements when taking care of patients

Introduction

"This is the work of a genius, if ever I saw any, she will create, I do not doubt it, an order of nurses before her work has been completed". Nightingale. For Nightingale Florence, nature has a repair power over the human body. Therefore, all the care we provide to meet observed needs must facilitate this action. According to their experience, personal and environmental hygiene: ventilation and heating, health health, light, food, cleaning and cleaning, are the most important aspects to consider when taking care of.

Developing

It also highlights the importance of caring for small details such as noise, variety, accompaniment and communication. But without a doubt the most important aspect and that a good nurse must learn is observation. Without observation there cannot be good care. The nurse through deep observation, will detect those needs that are altered to make the right decisions that allow us to save lives, maintain or recover health. Before his reading he thought it was going to be a historical book, something heavy and once finished and with a lot of stressed annotations.

I have to admit that I found a great quality work, very interesting and easy to understand. This book, distributed in chapters that highlight the needs of patients, collects the experiences lived by Florence Nihtingale throughout their life as a nurse, especially in London. In addition to the written text, it is full of lateral and footnotes that reflect their observations over the years.

With him I have learned as the health of homes, noise, food, ventilation, light and cleaning can positively or negatively influence health and disease prevention.

Although for Florence Nightingale the protagonist of healing is nature, it is our care that facilitates the action that it exerts on individuals for their physical and mental well -being, which also introduces psychological aspects of care in this book. It has also caught my attention as established by differences between patient care in hospitals and private patients. It is to admire a woman’s critical and fighter thinking for more than a hundred years and her nursing defense. I have seemed a great observer of the environment and patient needs.

Highlighting the observation of the patient in each of his chapters and annotations. With his notes, Florence Nightingale, nurses the nursing with such important aspects today as communication, prevention, hygiene, the importance of observation and nursing records. It is admiration to be able to observe today, how their foundations have not been affected by the passage of time or progress. This work has helped me for my future profession as well as support for my training. With it I have learned the importance of observation, this being the basis to achieve good care that allows us to improve people’s health.

conclusion

I think that this book is written to help take care of nurses but to anyone who is dedicated to caring for others. And finally, these are some of the thoughts that I liked the most: ‘Given the vital importance of a deep observation, the end of the observation should never be lost sight of. It is not to collect diverse information about curious facts, but to save lives and improve health and well -being ”ingenuity and perseverance can save more lives that we imagine’ Nightingale.