Department of Nursing Column

2021.03.02 Department of Nursing Column

[Department of Nursing] "Nursing NOW: New Coronavirus Infectious Disease Countermeasures"

In 2020, the new coronavirus infectious disease raged all over the world.We are still on the road to convergence, but strangely, if you ask 2020 if you think of a nurse, everyone will think of Florence Nightingale: 1820 years since the birth of Florence Nightingale (1910-200). The year was also in the midst of the "Nursing NOW" campaign by nurses around the world, "Nursing evolves beyond the century."

Nightingale was a British nurse, social entrepreneur, statistician, and nursing educator, and is often referred to as the "mother of modern nursing."The reason for this is well known for his devotion to wounded soldiers in the Crimean War (1853-56). Rather than that, I realized that it was an infectious disease that spread due to the unsanitary conditions of accommodation facilities (hospitals, etc.), and improved ventilation, clean bedding and clothing, cleaning and disinfection of beds and floors, meals, etc. One after another, the mortality rate was reduced to 42. reduce to %.
We will take epidemiological statistics, follow up, and establish so-called evidence-based care.

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Her activities were greatly appreciated by taking actions such as recording these practices and reporting them to the British Kingdom.One of her achievements was the establishment of the Nightingale School of Nursing at St Thomas' Hospital in London (now Kings College London).If you can travel abroad, please visit the Nightingale Museum.

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In the first nursing textbook 'Notes on Nursing' Nursing Notes (1860):

"Nursing" is a skill meant to minimize the exhaustion of a person's life force, i.e., help to promote the person's natural healing powers appropriately without disturbing them.In other words, it can be thought of as a technology that draws out and enhances the potential of life.
Nursing is the proper provision of fresh air, sunlight, warmth, cleanliness, and quietness, and the proper selection and control of diet.It is written that this should mean arranging all of this (life) to minimize the exhaustion of the patient's vital energy.

Of course, I am deeply involved in treatments such as internal medicine and surgery based on medicine, but it was a year of "Nursing NOW" that made me realize the basics of nursing.I'm glad I was a nurse.

[Professor Toshiko Endo, Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences]

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