Nightingale

Over the course of this semester, we have explored our personal philosophy and approach to the nursing practice, and learned about many different aspects of professional nursing career that has since evolved our original thoughts. We have learned about the different roles and competencies of a nurse, researched historical nursing figures who exemplified these practices, and developed our personal beliefs, values, and philosophies on common nursing topics such as health and illness, nursing as a…

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 though these examples show that is only possible to compare peoples greatness if…

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…

educator, case manager, nurse practitioner etc. we all need to take care of the patient holistically and in order to carry this out, one must be caring, compassionate and have a deeper understanding on what is it to be a nurse. When we recite the nightingale pledge, we have dedicated ourselves to devoted service for human welfare and as a “Missioner of health”. As a bedside nurse working in a hospital and Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF), I am able to see the best and worst of both world. As much…

Introduction: In reflecting on effective leaders over the last twenty one years of nursing, several leaders and mentors have been a positive influence. I have worked as a registered nurse and unit coordinator in Canada and USA. The individuals who have mirrored successful leaders are my mother and a past labor and delivery manager. Both have proved successful motivators and influential in my life and career. I have been inspired by their career goals and they have helped guide me through many…

Introduction The first nursing theorist was Florence Nightingale, but through the years other nurses have added to her theory and expanded upon the ever-changing profession with theories of their own. Defining these nursing theories or categorizing them can be quite a task and many have tried. The development of nursing theory has aspired nursing to develop into a scientific discipline (Jolley 1989) However, the development of nursing theory should be put into the context of the on-going…

Nursing is much more than providing direct patient care. Nurses serve in a variety of roles centered around positive patient outcomes. Prior to nursing school, I had no idea the diverse roles and opportunities nurses get to experience daily. Nurses participate in roles that involve direct patient care to assisting with transformation of the U.S. healthcare system. This paper will review eight pertinent roles nurses provide for patients and their communities. Caregiver Nurses spend more…

“If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.” Florence Nightingale. I’m a firm believer that we give medication to satisfy patients. I believe throughout the past many people become very unsatisfied with the care they were receiving and unhappy if they did receive the medication they believed they needed, because of this I believe doctors prescribe…

meet the growing needs of the society. Nursing has come a long way from the founder Florence Nightingale who established the first nursing training school in London in 1860 (Black 2014). During and after the American Civil War the need to train nurses to care for the sick and wounded soldiers became essential. Through this surfaced a leader, Dorothea Dix, and 3 nursing schools that molded the Nightingale school in England (Black 2014). Throughout the history of nursing, there has been a…

INTRODUCTION Nurses work with an extraordinary variety of people include doctors, psychologists, social worker, physical therapists, technicians, aids, unit managers, houskeeper’s clients and client’s family. So, nurses should study leadership to learn how to work well and effectively with other people. Leadership is commonly defined as a process of influence in which the leader influences others toward goal achivement (Yulk,1998). The impotant of leadership is…