Question

if florence Nightingale were alive today and she took the position that nurses represent Platos guardian class and physicians represent the artican class, would she be correct?

Answer 1

Ans) Florence Nightingale, known as the mother of modern-day nursing, embodied her life and work after the philosophic tenets of Plato.

- Plato's Allegory of the Cave influenced Nightingale's attitudes with regard to the value of education, knowledge of the good, and the importance of imparting learned knowledge to others.

- Plato's work spoke of educating both men and women to seek the truth, affording both sexes to become competent as future leaders in the role of guardians to society.

- Nightingale's emphasis of education for women as a conduit for their usefulness to society mirrored Plato's philosophy.

- Over 100 years after her death, the impact Florence Nightingale still has on professional nursing practice remains. Scholarship in nursing education today is infused with a liberal arts background in philosophy, ethics, and the sciences. Nightingale's holistic concepts of person, health, and environment in the practice of nursing coalesced with her statistical analyses in validating nursing actions foreshadowed the development of universal nursing knowledge and language base and meta-paradigm concepts in nursing. Further classification and categorization of

- Nightingale's concepts of assessing, implementing, and evaluating delivery of care became the linguistic precursors for the identification of nursing process, nursing actions, and nursing diagnoses.