Background:

Florence Nightingale was a British nurse, writer and statistician, considered to be a pioneer of the modern infirmary and creator of the first conceptual model of infirmary.

Objective:

to analyze Florence Nightingale as the first research nurse.

Methods:

a bibliographical review was carried out with the method of bibliographical analysis through a search donefrom 1994 to 2017, where specialized databases were consulted and 28 scientific publications on the topic were selected.

Results:

it was insisted on some topics, as the knowledge of Florence Nigthingale as for the philosophy, history, arts, mathematics, statistics, religion that allowed her to develop technique innovations in the statistical analyses with which she showed, as a social phenomenon that could be measured in an objective way and analyzed mathematically.

Conclusions:

Florence Nightingale was the first reearch nurse, her experience has exercised a great influence in the world of the mathematics, the statistics and the Infirmary.

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