This study aimed to explore the connotation of Nightingale’s nursing professionalism. Based on the standard that the cumulative contribution rate of common factor should be > 85%, three common factors of Nightingale’s nursing professionalism, including professional emotion, professional ability and professional ethics, were extracted based on the Scree plot. The Cronbach’s α of the questionnaire was 0.965, and the two groups did not differ significantly ( p > 0.05). The elements of Nightingale’s nursing professionalism were extracted by the exploratory factor method and a principal component analysis. Their recognitions of Nightingale’s nursing professionalism were evaluated based on scores, and statistical differences between and within the groups were analyzed using an Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). MethodsĪ total of 1,557 nurses and nursing students from 27 provincial administrative regions of China were surveyed using a customized questionnaire. In the new era, a new understanding of Nightingale’s nursing professionalism should be developed, and its positive role in nursing reshaped. Florence Nightingale was the founder and leader of modern nursing, and Nightingale’s nursing professionalism has a significant impact on nursing in China and all over the world. Nursing professionalism is highly significant to the development of nursing.

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