Nightingale

failure. In both the Great Gatsby, and the Nightingale and the Rose, characters attempt to follow an ideal thought on what love is; in hopes to shape love in the way they want it to be. Since love cannot be restraint or conformed, characters setup their own demise, by trying to manipulate love as if it were a puppet. This produces a whirl wind of events that lead to failure, and in one case death. In the texts the Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald, and The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde;…

Introduction: Andrew Manson, Florence Nightingale, and Hospital Reform, Nightingale’s Citadel “But oh! Wouldn’t it be wonderful, dear, if we could form a little front-line unit, scientifically and-- yes, let me say it-- spiritually intact, a kind of pioneer force to try to break down prejudice, knock out the old fetishes, maybe start a complete revolution in our whole medical system” (Cronin 323). The aforementioned quote, as stated by Doctor Andrew Manson, protagonist of a novel entitled The…

Following Nightingale We are all drawn to nursing by forces that we can’t see, but we feel them and are so compelled by their forces that we follow these feelings and become nurses. I feel that, spiritually, Florence Nightingale is the nursing theorist that I could compare myself to. Florence Nightingale was born in England in 1820 to two wealthy and well-connected parents. Her parents both came from Unitarian religious backgrounds, but because of her father’s association with the Church of…

Florence Nightingale is one of the most influential nurse in the medical field. During the Crimean War, Florence provided care to the soliders and improved the unsanitary conditions at a British base Hospital. With her actions, she was able to reduce the death of many people by two-thirds. She had started the field of nursing and her job has changed the view of many health care workers. In the nursing field, there are many different types of nurses and levels of education. Licensed Vocational…

Florence Nightingale as the “original” nurse, and has led the path for all nurses since. Florence was born in 1820 in Florence, Italy and that is where her name came from. Florence was born into an upper class family, but she felt calling from God to help. With that calling Florence wanted to train to become a nurse, and after some convincing to her parents in 1851 she went to Germany to train as a nurse. In 1854 the Crimean War began and that is when Florence began to really shine. Florence…

Who is Florence Nightingale and why is she so important to the medical department? Normal teenagers don’t know what they want to do with their life. In Florence Nightingales case, she knew when she was sixteen she wanted to be a nurse. She went to college, did hospital visits for eleven years and even were told this type of profession was forbidden for women of her “kind.” She even faced a war as a nurse and saved a lot of soldiers. Florence Nightingales legend has been left for many years to…

define a nurse. That description was given predominantly to women who cared for their own at home or one the battlegrounds at times of war. Nursing was not seen with esteem but neither were the women who were doing the nursing. Present nurses have Nightingale and others to thank for the revolution of the nursing occupation…

For Florence Nightingale I should think the episode might be instructive and everyway useful one. She will probably saw her wild oats in the shape of unsatisfied aspirations and activity and come back and marry suitably to immense comfort of her relations.’ Emily listening to her sister rejected the offer to work in Crimea, instead went to look for other ways to practice medicine in London. In May 1856, she wrote to nightingale seeking advice. Nightingale replied with a letter: I would…

Florence Nightingale once said, “How very little can be done under the spirit of fear” (Nightingale). Nightingale’s empathy, courage, diligence, and natural rebellion against her mother led her to turn nursing as a vocation for women into a respectful and honorable job; she decreased the death rate in the Crimean War by two thirds and altered hospital protocols, including hygiene and cleanliness, thus changing medical history in ways we still use today (Editors). Florence Nightingale was born on…

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…