Florence Nightingale

the current problems nurses are facing today. Nurses have always been overworked. In the beginnings of nursing schools, it was the work of nursing students that were keeping hospitals running. It was also the view of nurses as only females by Florence Nightingale that has contributed to the low percentage of males in the nursing profession. Some solutions that I would offer to change the ongoing problems would be a) respecting and appreciating nurses b) learning of ways for nurses and…

Nursing research is associated with the founder of nursing; Florence Nightingale. The beginnings of Evidence-based Practice. Evidence based nursing can date back to the 1800s if one considers Nightingale’s first steps forward. Her “Notes on Nursing” was first published in 1859 inEngland and in 1860 inAmerica (Evidence-Based Nursing, 2012). Practice based evidence nursing evidence-based practice has had an increase around the world today. In the 1970s in the United States was where you began the…

Dorothea Dix is an American social reformer with a huge impact of saving lives before and during The Civil War. In her early life, she opened a school for children including poor and neglected to help out on their reading and writing. Dix is more compassionate to teach the poor and neglected children, who can’t afford or able to make it to school, by coming to their houses because she felt the same connection during her childhood years under her strict and alcoholic father. Luckily her wealthy…

England changed with the break of King Henry VIII. The nuns and the priests were sent out of the country. The hospitals became government property. Criminals, widows and orphans were recruited in exchange for housing and food. In the Mid 1800’s Florence Nightingale felt a calling by god to become a nurse. As she…

Competence is a primary aspect that contributes to the role of professionalism in nursing. It is important to begin competency in nursing school by understanding and performing the skills required. There have been instances during clinical rotations where licensed registered nurses have not demonstrated the use of proper technique during skills. Some of these unsafe techniques include breaking sterile field, inserting an intravenous catheter after contaminating the site, and administering…

Throughout the entirety of the nursing profession, there have been revolutions or “eras” as many leaders of the profession refer to these periods of time where changes occurred to advance the profession. The nursing profession started with Florence Nightingale following her wartime service in the Crimean War. The “birth of modern nursing” is marked at the establishment of Nightingale’s efforts to initiate the School of Nursing at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London (pg. 18)(Alligood, 2018). From…

conclusion that indeed the framework supporting my practice is quite crucial. The evidence of my initial findings is rooted in the simple fact that either novice or expert nurse, either a layperson or any medical professional is familiar with Florence Nightingale, the pioneer of modern nursing and theorist who established the thirteen cannons as a path towards health through meeting patients' physical needs. Moreover, her theory provides a so-called " trunk" of "the Living Tree of Nursing…

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 did due to her race and her economic situation. Even…

Florence Nightingale had a passion to help others and did this by preaching to the less fortunate near her family’s estate. She was drawn to the practice of nursing and believed that her purpose in life was to be a nurse (Biography.com Editors, n.d). With this information it can be determined that her motivation for pursing a profession in nursing was altruism. Everyone has different life experiences that determine the reasoning behind their choice of profion. It is through past, present and…

What is Nursing The metaparadigm of nursing makes nursing a unique field of practice when compared to any other profession. By understanding what each of the four concepts of the metaparadigm mean and how they relate to nursing, it can help promote better quality of care. In return, by providing quality care, a patient can have an increase quality of life. The four concepts of the nursing metaparadigm described by Kearney-Nunnery (2016) are nursing, human beings, environment, and health.…