Appendix: Statistics & Legacy

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Florence Nightingale, 1860

🧠 MNEMONIC: NURSES 1851

Nurses by profession: 25,466
Unprofessional nurses need teaching too
Reform needed in nursing education
Schoolmistresses must learn health laws
Every woman depends upon for hygiene
Statistics show huge nursing workforce

1851 census data
85+ years: 163 nurses still working!
50-55 age: peak of profession
1864? No — 1860 first edition

Appendix

📊 NURSING STATISTICS — 1851 CENSUS

Nurses by profession: 25,466
Nurses in domestic service: 39,139
Midwives: 2,822
TOTAL: 67,427 women employed in nursing

📋 TABLE A: NURSES BY AGE (MEMORIZE KEY POINTS)

Age Group	Professional Nurses	Domestic Nurses
Under 15	0	7,767
20-25	624	6,537
45-50	2,748	1,206
50-55	3,982	1,196
60-65	3,825	712
85+	147	16

Peak years for professional nurses: 50-55 (3,982)
Peak years for domestic nurses: 15-20 (10,355)

📌 NIGHTINGALE'S VISION

"To increase the efficiency of this class, and to make as many of them as possible the disciples of the true doctrines of health, would be a great national work."

A man at the head of our medical profession once said: "I send a nurse into a private family to nurse the sick, but I know that it is only to do them harm."

👩‍🏫 THE BROADER DEFINITION OF "NURSE"

A nurse means any person in charge of the personal health of another. This includes:

Professional nurses of the sick
Nurses of children
Friends or relations taking temporary charge
Mothers of families
Schoolmistresses (where epidemics originate!)

⭐ NIGHTINGALE'S FINAL CHALLENGE

"On women we must depend, first and last, for personal and household hygiene — for preventing the race from degenerating."

The true way of infusing the art of preserving its own health into the human race: teach the female part of it in schools and hospitals, both by practical teaching and by simple experiments illustrating the theory.

💡 Memory Tip: Nightingale's vision: "EDUCATE WOMEN" — Every woman a nurse, Doctors can't do it alone, Unprofessional need teaching, Children's health depends on mothers, All nurses need training, Teach in schools, Empower the 67,000+, Women hold the key to health.

Source: Census of 1851, Great Britain. Florence Nightingale's original statistical tables.

📝 Key Takeaways for NCLEX

25,466 professional nurses in 1851 census
Peak age for professional nurses: 50-55
Teach women hygiene in schools and hospitals

🧠 Mnemonic Summary

NURSE: Nature heals, Universal skill, Reflective practice, Sanitary knowledge, Everyday application

Source: Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not, Florence Nightingale, 1860. First American Edition.