Florence Nightingale

MY VIEW OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF NURSING 1 My View of the Philosophy of Nursing Submitted by Colleen Hendy, RN In partial fulfillment of the requirements of Transition to Professional Nursing Fall 2016 Course # N3345 Jeanean Boyd, MSN, RN October 7, 2016 MY VIEW OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF NURSING 2 MY VIEW OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF NURSING…

The history of the nursing profession can be traced far back pioneers like Florence Nightingale. Florence transformed the status of nursing from a domestic service to that of a professional image. Over the years the nursing profession have undergone immerse revolution to become one of the respected profession in the modern era. The American Nurses Association (ANA) defines nursing as “the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury,…

It has been more than a century when Florence Nightingale has introduced nursing research that contributed to quality care and improved patient outcomes. Today, we strive to continue Florence Nightingale’s vision to ensure the delivery of high, safe, cost-effective health care to patients, families and communities. The care must be based on the current best research evidence available, thus, evidence-based nursing practices are considered as the gold standard in delivering the highest quality…

Jean Watson: A New Look Into Nursing Jaret Steiber 2669494 Cleveland State University October 12th, 2017 Abstract Jean Watson has quickly become one of the most influential theorists for the nursing profession of the 20th century. Since the introduction of Watson's Theory of Human Caring in 1979, Nurses have been provided with a guideline that allows them to develop a trans-personal relationship with their patients. This allows the nurse to become the…

learning to handle the patients, overcoming many new obstacles. The History of Nursing Before there was a word to define what nurses do there were nurses. Nursing dates back to the mid 19th century. The first person to put it down on paper was Florence Nightingale. She was asked by the British government to work with a small group of Military and nurses at Scutar hospital. They found that the cleaner the work environment was the lower the death rate was, and with the right nutritional foods…

Final Reflection Florence Nightingale once said that nursing is an art that requires just as much devotion and preparation as any sculptor or painters work (Hideaki, 2016). Coming into this program I had an idea of what nursing was going to be like because my aunt has been a nurse for over 30 years. Growing up I admired my Aunt for her work ethic and knew that I wanted to care for the sick one day, just like her. Today, being a couple days shy of my pinning ceremony, I can officially say without…

Graduation Day, the culmination of all our hard work and dedication, what we have strived for since day one of nursing school. The Pinning Ceremony itself is very traditional with actual pinning of your Nurses Pin on you by one of your instructors, the Florence…

soldiers earlier in the war were women from the Sisters of Charity. At the start of the war, the nurses were unskilled and untrained, so they had a difficult time performing their job with ease. Due to the establishment of training schools by Florence Nightingale, nurses received training and were better equipped to handle harsh situations such as those found in a war. As the war progressed and the number of wounded increased, the soldiers admired the nurses for their hard work and dedication.…

It’s more than likely that every person has encountered some situation relevant or based on patient safety. Multiple times in a person’s life we have encountered a patient safety situation whether we heard about it on the news by various IOM reports, known a friend or loved one who experienced a medical error, yourself had experienced a medical error, or maybe you were a nurse or doctor who mistakenly made a medical error. The issue with patient safety is becoming a bigger and bigger problem as…

The environment includes both the basic physical needs like air and water, but it also includes nonphysical like your culture and social needs. Known as the “Florence Nightingale of the 20th century,” Virginia Henderson was an advocate for nursing, and made many monumental contributions towards defining the role the nurse plays with the patient. In Virginia Henderson’s “Need Theory,”she identified fourteen fundamental…