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. 2016 Jul;29(3):247-50.
doi: 10.1177/0894318416648782.

The Two Nursing Disciplinary Scientific Revolutions: Florence Nightingale and Martha E. Rogers

Kan Koffi  1 , Jacqueline Fawcett  2
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The Two Nursing Disciplinary Scientific Revolutions: Florence Nightingale and Martha E. Rogers

Kan Koffi et al. Nurs Sci Q. 2016 Jul.

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to share Kan Koffi's ideas about scientific revolutions in the discipline of nursing. Koffi has proposed that the works of Florence Nightingale and Martha E. Rogers represent two scientific revolutions in nursing as a learned discipline. The outcome of these two scientific revolutions is a catalyst for critical disciplinary and paradigmatic debate about the universal conceptualization of nursing's distinctive professional and scientific knowledge.

Keywords: Florence Nightingale; Martha E. Rogers; nursing discipline; scientific revolution.

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