Validity of Florence Nightingale's thought on its bicentennial

• Main Author: Cruz Xiomara Peraza de Aparicio
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos 2020-10-01
• Series: Medisur
• Subjects: historia de la enfermería; teoría de enfermería; personajes
• Online Access: http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/4555

In the year of the bicentennial of Florence Nightingale's birth, the broad vision of her thought is still of great interest. As a woman outside of her time, she went beyond her own references and individualized care; managed to conceptualize nursing practice from the different areas of action: healthcare, teaching, research, and administrative; as well as the insertion of professionals in multidisciplinary teams, to contribute to the solution of public health problems. The work seeks an approximation to this figure who has become an icon of the profession he carried out and, moreover, revolutionized. For this, publications from several years ago and some very recent ones have been taken as a foundation, the latter, emanating, like this article, from the need to remember two hundred years after his birth.