The Nursing profession since the Florence Nightingale days has had many changes. Nursing was once considered an unskilled profession. Nurses were used more for comforting patients and didn’t have any formal education or training. Florence Nightingale created a better corridor for nurses today. While the fundamentals for nursing has remained similar, we have improved educational tools and training which has given nurses more responsibility than just comforting a patient before they passed. Nurses not only need to be caring and passionate as they once were, but they also need to understand the analytical skill to perform their job appropriately. We now have amazing nursing programs that help guide prospective candidates down a journey teaching
Nowadays, there are lot of books about the honor to the remarkable heroism and courage of people in tears of the World War II. The historical fiction novel Nightingale was written by bestselling American writer Kristin Hannah and published in 2015. In her book, she introduces the story about two sisters who living in France on the verge of World War II, and their effort to survive and go through the German occupation in the country. What is more, it was inspired by the real story of Andrée de Jongh, a Belgian woman, who helped pilots to leave the Nazi region in the time of war.
Florence Nightingale brought tremendous change to the world of nursing. She was truly a pioneer, paving the way for many to follow, with her ground breaking new outlook on nursing care. Florence was born in 1820 to a well off British family. She was said to be a very intelligent child, so her father gave her a thorough education. An extended education, at that time, was mostly reserved for men. Florence received her education from her father and an assortment of private tutors. She received lessons in modern languages, literature and higher mathematics. She showed a particularly strong interest in mathematics which later in her life would prove quite helpful. After receiving her education, she had become discontent with her home life, and
NIGHTINGALE’S ENVIRONMENTAL THEORY By Azeem Jan, Darlene Haddock, James Gibson, Jennifer Hall, Marisela Felix, and Melissa Dawley Grand Canyon University January 28, 2012 OVERVIEW OF NIGHTINGALE’S THEORY Florence Nightingale provided a framework for current nursing practice. Health is achieved when an individual makes appropriate and educated decisions.
Florence Nightingale was born May 12, 1820 in Florence Italy. She was born the second child in an affluent family. Nightingale’s parents had afforded her with a formal education in her childhood. Florence set her sights on nursing as she felt it was a calling from God. Nightingale’s parents forbid her to go to into nursing as they deemed it to be of lower class, instead the family pressured her to marry a wealthy man and join upper class society (Cohen, 1984).
Biography of Florence Nightingale My name is Florence Nightingale. Many people know me as “the lady with
Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy. Her parents named her after the city she was born in. She was born on May 12,1980, she was raised mostly in Derbyshire England. Many people when they hear Florence Nightingale think about her as a nurse and for her fight for better hospital care. Florence did a lot more in her life than achieve better hospital conditions, and become a nurse. She was a brilliant mathematician, and used statistics to apply them to achieve her reforms. Florence was a well-educated woman in a number of fields other than math;
On May 12, 1820, Florence Nightingale was born to English parents. During her youth, she was remarkably smart. Learning multiple languages and thriving in mathematics. She deeply believed that she had a God-given purpose to better mankind, but the route to achieving this goal was unclear (Calabria & Macrae, 1994; Cook, 1913). Nightingales parents wished for their daughter to marry into a socially prominent family. On three separate occasions she dismissed proposals, indicating that she could not pursue her own goals as a married woman (Gill, 2004; Nightingale, 1859a/1978). When Florence Nightingale was in her late teens she recognized her religious duty to serve. By the age of 25 she had identified nursing as the means to fulfill this mandate (Gill, 2004). When she was 30 years old, she was permitted two brief periods of instruction in nursing at Kasiserswerth, a Protestant institution in Germany (Bostridge, 2008; Nightingale, 1851). This experience helped her to understand the essential fundamentals of nursing, hospital method, and personnel policies. Of even greater consequence was Nightingale’s perception that formalized education was a necessary component of nurse preparation (Nightingale, 1851). For a year in the early 1850’s Nightingale worked in a small hospital in central London. During that time she learned what a nurse entailed. As Nightingales time was coming to an end with the hospital, she was appointed by the Victorian government to lead a group of thirty-eight
Documentation has been viewed as an important aspect of professional nursing practice since described by the founder of modern nursing - Florence Nightingale. This written record stands as legal evidence of accountability in the delivery of care, and serves as a method to communicate a patient’s status/progress between members of the interdisciplinary team (Chelagat, 2013). In the healthcare milieu, medical and disease focused charting is the usual practice among health care professionals. This biomedical-focused practice of documentation does not recognize the role of nursing practice in patient care as relational and holistic. A summary of a patients chart will be compared with a parallel chart developed with narrative ethics to facilitate discussion of this consideration.
Nursing today has become such an intricate world of healing, caring, knowledge and advocacy. All of these qualities are within every nurse. Nursing today is what it is due to many nursing theorist that came with a new set of knowledge and idea that helped shape nursing to what it is considered. One such theorist was nursing’s first environmental theorist, Florence Nightingale. According to Black and Chitty (2014), Florence Nightingale was born in 1820 to a prosperous English household. Her father educated her in many subjects such as: Latin, German, Greek, History and even Mathematics. Florence excelled in academics and wanted to further her studies by going to Kaiserswerth, Germany to study nursing. This was a huge deal in the era Nightingale lived in due to the fact that nursing was a working class job and Nightingale was from a wealthy family. According to MacQueen, (2007), nursing in that era was considered to be a job for the poor, involving untrained individuals and many were often accused of immoral behaviors. During the Crimean War, due to the horrendous war camp hospitals, Florence Nightingale was asked to gather nurses and head over to Scutari to help out at the British camp. With Nightingale’s charge, the camps conditions changed and the nurses brought cleanliness, comfort and sanitation to the patients. Nightingale made her mark as being known as the “Lady with the Lamp.” With the lessons learned during the Crimean War, Nightingale wrote an article describing in
Florence Nightingale was an influential pioneer who helped develop the medical industry into what it is today. Nightingale was born into a rich, high-class family in Florence, Italy and was named after her birth-city, like her sister Parthenope. At a very young age, she exhibited a gift for mathematics and overall excelled academically. Her father, William Nightingale often tutored her, making it one of the main reasons to Florence’s academic success. In 1838, Nightingale’s father took the family on a tour in Europe where she met Mary Clarke. The two instantly bonded, but little did they know they would remain close friends for over forty years, despite their twenty-seven year age difference. Almost one year earlier, Nightingale
In the Gambella region, cholera is a permanent problem. The area is known for overpopulation and destitute sanitation, which provides an ideal breeding ground for the Vibrio cholerae bacillus. In 2014, along with the native residents, more than 185,000 South Sudanese refugees have been vaccinated against cholera. It was Ethiopia’s first-ever mass cholera immunization that also reached South Sudanese refugees. Since then, the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have provided medical care, water and sanitation services, not just to the Ethiopian people, but also to the South Sudanese refugees in Pagak and Matar transit centres as well as in Letchuor, Kule and Tierkidi refugee camps and in Itang (MSF, 2014; Web).
When one thinks of the field of nursing, generally, the first word that comes to one’s mind is caring. While it is true that nursing is a caring profession, the scope of practice is more elaborate. Furthermore, since the dawn of nursing, the vocation has evolved significantly, embracing advancements in education and responsibilities. In essence, nursing has developed into a proud, highly educated, multifaceted discipline, and undoubtedly an intricate art.
Florence Nightingale, a well-educated nurse, was recruited along with 38 other nurses for service in a hospital called Scutari during the Crimean War in 1854 . It was Nightingale's approaches to nursing that produced amazing results. Florence Nightingale was responsible for crucial changes in hospital protocol, a new view on the capabilities and potential of women, and the creation of a model of standards that all future nurses could aspire towards.
Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy, she was named after the city of her birth. Her mother and father had her when they were vacationing in Italy. She was born on May 12, 1820. Her parents were William and Frances (also known as Fanny) Nightingale. Her father was a wealthy landowner and inherited an estate in Derbyshire, England. Her mother and father both committed themselves to the rush of active social lives. She had a sister, Frances Parthenope Verney,Florence would call her Parthe, Parthenope was also named after her birth place.
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