COURSE

NR393-Nursing History

Discussion

The basic story of Florence Nightingale is familiar to most nurses. This week we learned more about Nightingale’s life and work. Select one area of Nightingale’s leadership that was new to you and tell us how this changed your understanding of this important woman and her contributions to nursing.

SOLUTION

Florence Nightingale pioneered many concepts throughout her nursing career. It was interesting to discover and new to me that she utilized statistics and evidence-based practice to improve the quality of care and outcomes.” Nightingale was the first nurse to systematically collect data and then statistically analyze it to justify proposed policy and treatment protocol changes aimed at improving patient outcomes” (Andrist, 2006). I learned from the Florence Nightingale Museum Website that she created pie charts to visualize and understand collected data………please click the icon below to access entire solution at $5