The Florence Nightingale Effect
This made her careless around him to the point that she tested positive to the virus a few weeks later. In her words, “she has no regrets’’. This brought a hot debate on the comments section of the post with some arguing that it was unethical and stupid to fall in love with a patient, while others opined that love was not something that is often planned and can catch one anywhere and happen with anyone. So, what exactly is the ‘’Florence Nightingale Effect’’? and what are the principles surrounding such relationships? What Is the Florence Nightingale Effect? The Florence Nightingale Effect (also referred to as Nightingale Syndrome) is a pop-culture reference to the real nurse, Florence Nightingale, who treated her patients with care and compassion. The term originally connoted the care and compassion that nurses were to show their patients, a kindhearted and empathetic relationship, not a romantic one.…
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