Florence Nightingale

The Nurse that really stood out amongst the rest was Florence Nightingale. She was an amazing women that ultimately changed nursing for the better. Florence Nightingale, a nurse, spent her night rounds giving personal care to the wounded, establishing her image as the 'Lady with the Lamp. Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy, on May 12, 1820. During the Crimean War, she and a team of nurses improved the unsanitary conditions at a British base hospital, reducing the death count by…

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 had the need to help…

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…

Florence Nightingale volunteered to take care of injured soldiers as a nurse during the Crimean War. She analysed the difficult conditions to help reorganise the service of nursing and the treatment of patients. Florence was born on May 21, 1820. She was raised in a wealthy family and her father educated her at home. She dreamt of working for others, mainly she wanted to become a nurse. Her parents did not agree with that, but despite her parents' disapproval, she continued and trained to be a…

On May 12 1820, Florence Nightingale was born to wealthy English parents in Florence, Italy. Like her sister, Florence was given the name of her birth place. Florence’s sister, Parthenope was a socialite like her mother, while Florence favored her father’s love for books. Florence’s mother was very active and out spoken. Her father was known for being an avid reader yet lazy when it came to work. His wealth came from his uncle’s inheritance. A quiet man, Florence saw her father as an…

Florence Nightingale, a pioneer nurse, went against her parents and her upbring, by becoming a nurse and going to war, and this decision had changed the way of nursing. She has done so many amazing things to nursing. Nightingale was born into a pretty wealthy family. Her father was a wealthy landowner, who had inherited two estates. Her father had raised her and her two sisters, on one of the family estates her that he had inherited. Her mother had come from a family of merchants and had a…

Florence Nightingale, as the founder of the modern nursing, came up with the environment theory (Selanders, & Crane, 2012). This theory has changed the outlook of nursing practice. Nightingale served as a nurse during warfare period, Crimean war, she observed a lot of things that related to the patients who perished as well as their environmental situations. Given this observation, she came with the theory of environment (Roque & Carraro, 2015). Owing to worse conditions that she saw patients…

Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale was a woman who pioneered nursing as a profession due to her passion for nursing. During the Crimean War, the British government discovered that they needed someone to assist with those who were injured. In 1854, they appointed Florence Nightingale as the superintendant of the nursing staff due to her ability to provide nursing services (Hood, 2014). Florence Nightingale changed the way healthcare would be given to soldiers during the Crimean War.…

Background Florence Nightingale was born at the Villa La Colombaia in Florence, Italy on the 12th of May 1820. She was born two years after her one and only sister, Frances Parthenope. Both Florence Nightingale and Frances Parthenope was named after a place they were born in, one being Florence, Italy and the latter “Parthe” after Parthenopolis which once was a Greek settlement, now part of Naples, Italy. Florence Nightingale was born into a British family that belonged to the upper-middle-class…

There are so many different ways to enter into the profession of nursing that it sometimes creates conflict. When Florence Nightingale opened a school of nursing in London she created a few fundamental ideas that are still in place today. The first one being, the nurse should be trained in an educational institution supported by public funds and associated with a medical school. This principle should be viewed as the most important because every nurse should have a solid background, and in order…