Nosocomial hygienists: Florence Nightingale case

Cultura de los Cuidados

Francisco Javier Castro Molina¹ 

[1] Servicio Canario de Salud.;

关键词: nightingale, florence;    hospital;    higiene;    arquitectura;    scutari;   

DOI  :  10.7184/cuid.2013.36.11

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The dramatic changes that emerged after the start of the Industrial Revolution helped that solutions be sought repeatedly to different problems that were happening, one after another, as a result of overcrowding and sociopolitical and economic changes. Advances in the field of science, and particularly in the health sciences, were innumerable, settling in society marked by a concern to solve the problems of the lower classes. In the field of health, were gradually leaving positions anchored in the models based on the “miasma”, moving to build on the model’s hand microbial Pasteur and Lister. These findings were taken to the architecture gradually giving way to buildings that sought to maintain a hygienic environment that disease exiled inside the “walls of hospitals.” Example of this struggle was conducted by the nurse Florence Nightingale, thanks to the observation and their knowledge acquired in the Kaiserswerth Deaconess Institute in Germany and the Maison de la Providence of the Sisters of Charity of Paris, managed to establish a set of guidelines that applied to the establishment managed, Scutari Hospital during the Crimean War.

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