Nursing and society: Evolution of Nursing and of capitalism in the 200 years of Florence Nightingale

Authors

  • Rodrigo Nogueira da Silva Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil; Scholarship holder at the Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6991-7066
  • Márcia de Assunção Ferreira Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; Scholarship holder at the Conselho Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia, Brazil. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6991-7066

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/1518-8345.4482.3425

Keywords:

Capitalism, Nursing Care, Health Economics, Health Care Sector, Nursing, History of Nursing

Abstract

Objective: to analyze the relationships between the development of the Nursing labor and of capitalism over the 200 years of Florence Nightingale. Method: a logical-reflective and theoretical exposition based on interpretations of historical facts and Marxist theories. The analysis categories were the following: the creation and expansion of the Nightingalean Nursing Teaching System; the subsumption of the Nursing labor to capital; imperialism and international health; and the flexibilization of the Nursing labor. Results: the expansion of the Nightingale Teaching System has trained nurses on a global scale. The capitalist system transformed the Nursing labor in the twentieth century, culminating in the twenty-first century with precarious and intense turnover of nurses in their jobs. Conclusion: the Nursing labor, made professional by Nightingale, has assumed in the last 200 years a dialectical relationship with capitalism in which it both determines and is determined by it. New challenges, such as the Industry 4.0 technologies, are constantly imposed on the profession.

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Published

2021-05-21

Issue

Vol. 29 (2021)

Section

Original Articles

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Nursing and society: Evolution of Nursing and of capitalism in the 200 years of Florence Nightingale. (2021). Revista Latino-Americana De Enfermagem, 29, e3425. https://doi.org/10.1590/1518-8345.4482.3425