Florence Nightingale

to help people, but it can also be hard dealing with deaths. Even as medical care changes nurses will still be taking care of people for a long time to come. Florence Nightingale is known as the mother of nursing. During the war in the 1800’s she was the sole care taker for the wounded and ill soldiers. (D'Antonio ) Florence Nightingale showed the importance of a clean and sanitary environment for her patients. She was able to decrease the overall amount of infections in the wounded and…

However, one woman contested the norm and went beyond the societal expectations. She was determined to follow her calling for nursing and became an advocate for the sick. Thus, Florence Nightingale became a pioneer in her multifaceted approach to patient care. Through her unique focus of the environmental model, Nightingale incorporated person, environment, health, and nursing into her practice thereby intertwining each facet to provide one of her lasting foundational…

Is Nursing a Profession? The rich history of nursing encompasses hundreds of years, beginning way before Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton, or Dorthea Dix and the evolution of a nurse’s role continues today. Preparing to become a nurse requires a unique body of knowledge, theory, ethics, and science along with the ability to safely apply that knowledge. All nurses belong to the medical profession but some members of that profession are in disagreement. The disagreement about whether nursing…

commitment. We should incorporate the nursing theory into our daily lives as we are dealing with patients. The purpose of this paper is to inform the reader on why the famous theorist, Florence Nightingale, developed the environmental theory, its significance, and why it is still important to us today.…

The Role of the Nurse as Patient Advocate The purpose of this paper is to look at the role of the nurse as patient advocate; as well as some barriers they may face while partaking in this role. The term advocate does not have just one definition or meaning. Various areas of study such as psychology, sociology, and law all perceive the definition of advocate in a different way. Some of “the nursing literature relies on a legal definition of an advocate as someone who defends the patient against…

The most important day in your nursing career is the day you graduate. As new nurses, we look to the words of Florence Nightingale for guidance as we are called to respect all persons regardless of their background (Egeus, Leinung, 2013). Regardless of these significant words, nurses have failed to observe and carry them out, resulting in hostile work environments. When you ask others how a nurse should act, you expect to hear the words compassionate and caring, not cold, abrasive, disrespectful…

(Martes, 2012). In 1977 she received the Lula Hassenplug Distinguished Achievement award from the California Nurses' Association then in 1981 she received an excellence in nursing award from the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. Dorothy died at the age of 80 in February 1999 (Martes, 2012). Dorothy's theory began to develop in the 1940's the same time she began to teach. Dorothy stated that her theory is a product of “philosophical ideas; sound theory and research; her clinical…

The field of gender studies is an area of interdisciplinary study that analyzes the social aspect of gender and how it relates to different subcategories of life. It explores what it entitles to be female or male; and the experiences a person may encounter due to their gender, sexuality, race, class, etc. Because gender studies analyzes the social aspect of gender, it coherently applies to the subcategory of gender in the workplace. In most fields and professions gender has an effect on the way…

chance to receive proper primary care. As a nurse, the ways to impact public health have been done time and time again. One of the most awe-inspiring examples is Florence Nightingale. Her implementation of better sanitation and nutrition during the Crimean War can be directly correlated to our high life expectancy today. Arguably, Nightingale had the most important contribution to public health as we now know it. Patient advocacy through education is also a trend in health care that helps…

The commitment to nursing dates back to one of the most notable early contributors. Florence Nightingale was very aware of the role of nursing and its importance. Nightingale identified the role of the nurse as essential to health care. Nightingales’ strong beliefs are the foundation of today’s nursing framework (Badzek, 2008). The foresight that Nightingale had is the first step in a staircase of the profession that has evolved into a strong trustworthy caregiver. In the following body of work…