Nightingale

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…

Autumn”, “Ode to a Nightingale”, and “Last Sonnet”, Keats’s use of vivid imagery and melancholic tone aid in revealing the underlying theme. With Keats introduced to…

most of his poems stem from internal conflicts. Several of his great works including “Ode to a Nightingale” and “Ode on a Grecian Urn” characterizes Keats as a visionary. His poems contain a wide range of imagery of all bodily environments including vision, smell, hearing, touch, pressure, weight, ravenousness desire, sexuality and movement. Keats repeatedly combines different…

Florence Nightingale was born May 12th, 1820 and died August 13th, 1910, during that time she accomplished many feats that shaped the field of nursing today. She reduced death rates during war by thousands, improved sanitary conditions in hospitals, overall health care reform and implemented a formal school for nursing. As a child Florence lived in Italy, she was the younger of two children. At a young age she was interested in philanthropy, ministering the ill and the poor people in the small…

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…

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…

Fear. A four letter word holding much more meaning than what catches the eye. While reading The Nightingale, I could feel, almost taste the fear of the residence of France during the German occupation. The people ate, drank, slept, mused, and breathed fear. It was an inescapable envelope of disaster. The French people felt as though danger lingered in the shadows of the town and crept into their homes as an unsolicited guest. The French felt unsafe in their own homes. You could only wonder how…

The Dichotomy of Death In “The Raven,” by Edger Allen Poe, the speaker is driven to madness as a result of essentially lamenting over the death of his beloved Lenore. This theme of meditating on death also runs through out John Keats “Ode to a Nightingale.” Although the central theme of these two poems is in essence based upon the same subject, the perspectives taken by the two authors are so immensely different that they demand an entirely different reaction from the reader. Both poems make…

Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats was published in 1819. Keats was the oldest of four and lost his parents at an early age. His father died when Keats was eight after he fell off a horse and cracked is head open, his mother died six years later of tuberculosis. In 1816 he became a licensed apothecary, although he never pursued that profession, instead he became a poet. One may ask why he went through all the trouble of getting licensed and then decided to write poetry for a living. In 1817, he…