• Heroine​

  • Heroine of the Crimean War

• Scholar​​​

  • Nightingale was the first to notice the importance nursing roles in a hospital setting, hence, she took this notion and had the vision that nurses should work alongside with physicians, should receive professional educations, even obtain  degrees from universities in the nursing.

  • Established Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London in 1860.

• Theorist​​

  • Nightingale's Environmental Theory of Nursing states that the essentials to  the health of a patient are: fresh air, pure water, sufficient food supplies, efficient drainage, cleanliness of the patient and environment, and light (particularly direct sunlight).

• Social Reformer

  • Nightingale had a vision to change the societal boundaries of women lacking a position and status in the society.

  • Her goal was to establish an independent, woman-led profession, NURSING.

  • To reform the conditions of the health status of hospitals.

• Unofficial Consult​​​

  • ​The first woman member of the Royal Statistical Society

  • Honorary member of the American Statistical

 

"Nursing is.... a calling, an art and a science, achieved through environmental alteration, a profession that requires a specific educational base, distinct and separate from medicine."

                                                                 - According to Nightingale's Environmental Theory of Nursing.