Crimean War

In 1954 she was sent as a part of the 38 member group of nurse to take care of British soldiers fighting in the Crimean War that aimed to terminate further expansion of the Russian Empire across the Europe . Nightingale’s group arrived to the military hospital in Scutari which at that time was under the patronage of the Sidney Herbert, the Secretary of War. She personally witnessed badly wounded soldiers dying in the horrible sanitary conditions from severe infections. However, ten…

training. Eventually, Nightingale worked her way up and became the superintendent of London’s Institution for governesses in Distressed Circumstances (“Florence Nightingale”). In October 1853, the beginning of the Crimean War struck. Florence would soon fight against her citadel during the war to reform the health care system and ameliorate aid for the…

Florence Nightingale changed the face of health care. She became the mother of modern nursing. In the early 1800’s, there were no health standards, like hand washing. People would die from a simple infection due to the hospital not being clean enough. Nightingale worked to lower the death rates in many hospitals and improve the conditions. She knew she wanted to help people from a young age. Nightingale was never discouraged by people that did not believe in her, she continued to do what she…

Florence Nightingale was a Victorian-era English woman who greatly improved the care of sick and dying soldiers during the Crimean war. She was the lady carrying a lamp as she made her way through the dark and damp halls of a make-shift hospital where hundreds of men lay inches apart in unspeakable conditions. She was the heroine of the Crimean war, returning to England and avoiding every attempt at fame as she quietly withdrew and secluded herself from mainstream society. Her efforts to…

The effects of war are often calculated in terms of costs for weapons, equipment, gains, and losses with respect to what is being fought over, be it land or other resources. In thinking of war that way, however, we often overlook the very personal costs of war; while we may think in the abstract terms of numbers of dead soldiers, we overlook the cognitive, physical, and psychological on soldiers, civilians, and even the entire world. Indeed, while war shows man’s resilience and sacrifice, it…

Florence Nightingale’s career is much more remembered than the works of Mary Seacole even though they both nursed to very high standards in the Crimean war. When they returned Nightingales career took off where Seacoles did not. She was forgotten for a century while Nightingale was praised. It is clear to see that Seacole had less opportunity to be remembered and to make as much change as Nightingale…

Based on a true story, “The Charge of the Light Brigade” inspired many with the genuine war cries. The poem tells the story of a brigade consisting of 600 soldiers who rode on horseback into the “valley of death” for half a league. The reasons for the poem’s popularity should be evident because it is such a stirring expression of courage under fire, heroism under impossible odds, of the might of the English military. In “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” the author used setting, imagery, and the…

Nursing and their community Before I start on how nurses have their communities, I am first going to start on what community is. Community is “a social, religious, occupational, or other group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as distinct in some respect from the larger society within which it exists” this means that a community can be anything. A community can be a community of students or a community of Catholics. A community can also be business…

After watching both videos, I realized how Florence Nightingale and Catherine McAuley have influenced the nursing profession in similar ways. Their passion and determination have introduced other individuals to the concepts the nursing profession entails. Both Florence Nightingale and Catherine McAuley had a need to help others, saw the good in all people, worked hard to get things accomplished, were selfless, and portrayed nursing in a better light. Catherine McAuley and Florence Nightingale…

Florence Nightingale was a pioneer of nursing, leading a brave crusade of women to tend to the ill during a dangerous time in war. Nursing has been a long part of history even before it was founded by Florence Nightingale. Woman has been performing nursing practices for thousands of years. As with the roles that women play back in 1800, nursing is no different in those times as with women of today's society using traditional care giving that takes place in the comfort of one's own home. In…