Following Nightingale
We are all drawn to nursing by forces that we can’t see, but we feel them and are so compelled by their forces that we follow these feelings and become nurses. I feel that, spiritually, Florence Nightingale is the nursing theorist that I could compare myself to. Florence Nightingale was born in England in 1820 to two wealthy and well-connected parents. Her parents both came from Unitarian religious backgrounds, but because of her father’s association with the Church of England, Nightingale grew up with varied religious influences. Nightingale’s father believed in education and supervised it closely; she studied classical and modern languages, history, philosophy, and at twenty years old, she insisted that her father hire a mathematics tutor. Because of these influences, Maindonald and Richardson (2004) believed Florence Nightingale developed a strong sense of duty, freedom of thought, intellectual honesty, unconventional religious mysticism, and an attitude toward being unforgiving to her own faults and the faults of …show more content…
I believe that sunlight helps heal patients. I think that when a patient is kept in a sterile hospital room, it can easily start to feel depressing and boxed in. When you open the curtains, and let in the sun, you also let in the scenery. Opening up a window does a lot more than let light in, or fresh air; when you open up a window, you break down those hospital walls and its freeing. A patient can look far outside of their environment and look towards a better place. A patient can also feel far away from anything familiar, and it can make a person feel like giving up. A window brings the world to those stuck behind it. When you have a patient whose been bed ridden for months, they can lose track of time, days and nights, and a window can allow them a sense of time without having to bother anyone. This brings the control back to the patient, and help them not to feel so
We are all drawn to nursing by forces that we can’t see, but we feel them and are so compelled by their forces that we follow these feelings and become nurses. I feel that, spiritually, Florence Nightingale is the nursing theorist that I could compare myself to. Florence Nightingale was born in England in 1820 to two wealthy and well-connected parents. Her parents both came from Unitarian religious backgrounds, but because of her father’s association with the Church of England, Nightingale grew up with varied religious influences. Nightingale’s father believed in education and supervised it closely; she studied classical and modern languages, history, philosophy, and at twenty years old, she insisted that her father hire a mathematics tutor. Because of these influences, Maindonald and Richardson (2004) believed Florence Nightingale developed a strong sense of duty, freedom of thought, intellectual honesty, unconventional religious mysticism, and an attitude toward being unforgiving to her own faults and the faults of …show more content…
I believe that sunlight helps heal patients. I think that when a patient is kept in a sterile hospital room, it can easily start to feel depressing and boxed in. When you open the curtains, and let in the sun, you also let in the scenery. Opening up a window does a lot more than let light in, or fresh air; when you open up a window, you break down those hospital walls and its freeing. A patient can look far outside of their environment and look towards a better place. A patient can also feel far away from anything familiar, and it can make a person feel like giving up. A window brings the world to those stuck behind it. When you have a patient whose been bed ridden for months, they can lose track of time, days and nights, and a window can allow them a sense of time without having to bother anyone. This brings the control back to the patient, and help them not to feel so