Florence

Florence Nightingale is a leader who had greatly contributed to the nursing profession. For many years she has inspired and changed the view of nursing in the medical science world by using her intellectual skills she had acquired throughout training to care for the sick. Her passion and dedication to care for others taught nurses all over the world that nursing is a calling and it’s not for everyone. Without compassion, empathy and patience, a nurse in uniform will not be able to perform…

world history is Florence Nightingale. In addition to being well known as a leader in nursing and social reforms, Florence Nightingale is also revered as the nurse who went and cared for soldiers fighting in the Crimean War. Nightingales part in the Crimean War would forever change the way that the sanitation and handling of patients would be conducted. Florence Nightingale was born on May 12, 1820 into an affluent upper class British family and named after her city of birth in Florence,…

education. Nurses face many challenges as they react to the complexities of the developing medical field. One nurse in particular has shaped and advanced the views on nursing significantly. Florence Nightingale, or most commonly known as the “Lady with the Lamp” is the foundation of modern nursing itself. Florence Nightingale is highly known for her service during the Crimean War which extended from October 1853 to March 1856, which took place in the Crimean Peninsula. During the Crimean…

Giotto di Bondone, of Florence, and Jan van Eyck, of Bruges were both revolutionary artist during the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance era (c. 1300-1500). However, each artist had incredibly different styles and utilized different mediums that they would later become known for. Giotto lived and worked in Florence during a period when religious subjects and styles had been laid down by centuries of tradition. As the first artist to depict human emotion, his influence put Western art on a path to…

Florence Nightingale, a world-wide recognized health care heroine, has shown the effect of personal traits on professional career. The BIO Weekly Newspaper, Britannica, and BBC have especially disseminated her righteous and strong traits through which she is accounted with a highly distinguished level of importance. Nightingale valued her belief of being called upon to be a nurse. From a young age, she had nursed the ill and poor people around her and took her ambitions of helping others to a…

Florence Nightingale believed that Nursing was an art and a science in which certain individuals had to have the proper education and training in order to perform necessary actions. She mostly believed that nursing was a calling. A calling in which people needed to have a gift for the profession. She thought to believe that nursing was not something in which anyone could do; she believed that people had to have that calling to be a nurse. Florence Nightingale defined nursing as the, “ought to…

Florence Nightingale: Environmental Theory Introduction Learning what Environmental theory and how it was developed, I will give a background regarding the theorist. According to Barbara Dossey, the year 2010 marks 100 years since the death of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) at age 90. Nightingale was the philosophical founder of modern nursing and the first recognized nurse theorist. She had a holistic and integrative perspective, as she focused on the individual and collective, the inner and…

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…

Florence nightingale was born on May 12, 1820. Born in Florence, Italy. She was born into a wealthy British family who was part of the elite social circles in Britain. Florence’s mother was a lady by the name of Frances nightingale. She came from a family of merchants yet enjoyed socializing with people of a higher social standard. Although her mother was a very social person, Florence, herself was known to be quite anti-social. Described as an awkward individual in social settings. She was far…

Florence Nightingale, or “Mother of Nursing”, is who most people think of when they think about who started modern nursing. She was born into a wealthy family and grew up taking care of people. She and her parents were always living in a “temporary home”…