UNDERSTANDING THE NURSING HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Abstract

The book Notes on Nursing, What it is and what it is not written by Florence Nightingale, celebrated 150 years since its first edition, and is undoubtedly the book, which drew the first outlines of the discipline of nursing. This paper aims to interpret from the experience of being a nurse and from contemporary definitions of the discipline, how nurses have based their theoretical development, and to assess the impact of nursing on that person called to care. Based on the quotes from the book it was possible to interpret the systematic progress of the discipline of nursing from its inception until today. It is stated how human care is capable of mobilizing the caregiver, transforming it.