Notes on Nursing

She said, “God spoke to me and called me to His service.” (Baly, 1995) She was not clear as to what the calling was but she decided that it was to help the sick and the poor by becoming a nurse. Her mother’s concern was finding her daughter a good husband. Florence turned down many marriage proposals. When she was 25 years old se told her parents she wanted to become a nurse. Her parents were completely angry with the idea of becoming a nurse because nursing was associated with working class women. Florence looked up to a woman named Elizabeth Blackwell, who was the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the United States. She met this woman at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London. Elizabeth encouraged Florence to be firm and not give up on her dream. After six years of arguing with her father of becoming a nurse, he finally agreed to her decision. (MacQueen, 2007). Florence entered the nurses’ training program in Kaiserswerth, Germany and was there for three years learning the basics of nursing (Chitty & Black,…

Notes on Nursing was written by a remarkable woman named Florence Nightingale, who was born on May 12 in 1820, in Florence, Italy. Nightingale wrote Notes on Nursing to inform, and make a change to better the future of nursing. Florence Nightingale stressed things such as clean environment, air, and living areas; she also made sure the importance of patient care, nutrition, lightness, and also effective administration were known. Florence was an extraordinary woman, nurse, and caregiver; she…

with people. Her father was a wealthy landowner who inherited two estates when Florence was 5 years old. Unlike Florence’s mother, she was socially awkward. She often butted heads with her mother and she thought she was controlling. She wanted to please her mother; “I think I am got something more good-natured and complying”. Her father provided her with traditional education that included German, French and Italian. At a very young age, Florence loved helping the poor and the ill in the village…

Like all developments and initiatives, negative aspects of the change are also present as well as the positive aspects and this is no different for this development. Brooks and Erickson (2012) did a study on the impact of electronic clinical notes in the hospital and found both positives and negatives for the change. The negative impacts that they found in nursing care included usability concerns, server crashes and resistance to change from staff. Usability difficulty is probably one of the…

throughout the world have successfully transitioned into electronic clinical notes, some are still waiting to make that transition. So the question is not will the transition happen, but when will the transition happen. The topic of electronic clinical notes has been researched a lot and has found to improve the care given by nurses and improve patient outcomes…

foundations and history of nursing provide a context in which to understand current practice in many ways. Firstly, it helps one to appreciate the way nursing has evolved. Nursing started from a humble beginning. From helping the soldiers during the war to current formal different settings not limited to hospitals, home health and nursing homes but the commitment remains. Secondly, the knowledge of foundations and history of nursing helps us to appreciate the different contributions of various…

including laboratories, other healthcare facilities, insurance companies, just to name but a few. However, this discussion focuses on the major two organizations that Midtown Family Clinic communicates with on a regular basis and which are Midtown Insurance Agency and Midtown Nursing Home. Midtown Family Clinic works together with this organization purposed to deliver effective and reliable patient care services. External Organization #1: Midtown Insurance Agency The first organization that Dr.…

The aim of this assignment is to explore the understanding of the role of a nurse in relation to record keeping in nursing to ensure a safe, high-quality and continuous nursing care to the patients. Nursing documentation is a fundamental aspect of a nurse’s obligation in everyday clinical practice (Griffith and Tengnah, 2010). The importance of record keeping will demonstrate the best practice in nursing by focusing on four key areas of nursing practices to ensure and to maintain the assessment…

instituted without success, and Cindy Black was pronounced dead. Departure from professional standards of nursing care: In every nursing malpractice case the defendant nurse's conduct is measured against that of a reasonably prudent nurse under the same or similar circumstances. Departure from the professional standards of nursing care for the first admission to the emergency department included the following deviations: · Failure to assess Cindy Black comprehensively upon discharge · Failure…

Relational ethics is a theoretical framework that allows nursing professionals to understand the patients’ own story and journey (Abma, 2005, p. 338). Relational ethics derives from relational narrative, a process where “the words the nurse and patient compose together, the words of their engagement yields ethical knowledge that is co-authored, contingent and contextual” (Abma, 2005, p. 339). The application of attentive listening and responsiveness allows the combination of both the registered…