Journal article
Celebrating the International Year of the Nurse: Modern Health Care Reform and Nightingale's Vision
Holistic nursing practice, v 24(5), pp 245-245
01 Sep 2010
Abstract
Donnelly highlights the International Year of the Nurse in commemoration of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing who died in 1910. Nightingale, an advocate of health, self-healing, and healthy environments, would be proud of the strides that nurses have made to promote holistic health and care around the world. Several themes in this age of health care reform resonate not only with Nightingale's vision for healthier societies. First, individuals need to take charge of their own health: eating healthy foods, engaging in regular physical activity, avoiding risky behaviors like smoking, monitoring the parameters of health, and making lifestyle changes that will prevent chronic illness or keep it in check. Nightingale believed that "health nursing" and cultivating good health were equally important to "sick nursing," the art and principles of which she developed almost single-handedly.
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- Title
- Celebrating the International Year of the Nurse: Modern Health Care Reform and Nightingale's Vision
- Creators
- Gloria Donnelly
- Publication Details
- Holistic nursing practice, v 24(5), pp 245-245
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ovid Technologies
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- College of Nursing and Health Professions
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000292201900001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-78449241068
- Other Identifier
- 991021855568604721
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- Integrative & Complementary Medicine
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