There are many traits of nursing used today that date back to Florence Nightingale, actually too many to detail in this short assignment, but I will list a few. Ngigi (2015) explained Nightingale would often take her lamp into the night to care for patients, today nurses offer round the clock attention to patients to make sure they receive the best care possible. If nurses can see something different in a patient during their night rounds, there is a possibility of a proactive approach to one's diagnosis as opposed to a reactive approach. Nightingale would collect data on patients and compare them to see if the hospitals could do something better to help patients. Today, nurses go from room to room collecting data, comparing charts to make
