Faye Adellah

She got pregnant at 15 and continued to go to high school graduating from Reid Continuation High School as class valedictorian. She then attended California State University, Long Beach and studied business administration.

Florence Nightingale is known as the founder of modern nursing. Her contributions and influence not only to the nursing profession, but to the public health care system, is unparalleled. She was instrumental in establishing multiple processes and practices that are still in current practice. She has influenced many nursing theorist and prevailing theories during her career. Many of her changes continue to influence theory development today.

She first wanted to be an internist, but it changed when she became interested in neurosurgery. But that path was where people told her not to do, so she encountered difficulties obtaining the internship. But she refused to give up; she was then accepted as a surgical intern at the Yale-New Have Hospital. She went there after graduating, cum laude, from medical school in 1975.

At this time there was no physician-patient relationship, this being due to the fact that physicians were there to treat the body and the general view was that patients were unable to provide accurate evidence without “feelings and emotions” getting in the way. This Era at the bottom line was about facts, evidence and physical direct ailments. The nursing profession was just starting to be developed in this Era. The “nurses” of this time were family members, nuns, priests, neighbors who were all untrained. The start of some of the founding nurses were seen such as Florence Nightingale. She started to look at sanitary conditions and nutrition, some might say she was the original nurse. Her contribution the start of nursing is very significant. She trained some of the first nurses during the Crimean War and with her training she was able to statistically show how sanitary conditions, cleanliness and nutrition were able to significantly decrease the death rate of Crimean soldiers. In Era I physicians really only took care of one part of the “human”, because as humans we are a composition of the physical, mental and soul. Those three parts are what give us humanity and higher thinking. So Era I does not create a fully encompassing view of medicine.

She worked in various hospitals in different position from a bed side nurse to the head nurse. Not content with her work, she continued with her studies and graduated Masters in Education from India,

Martha Elizabeth Rogers was born on May 12, 1914. She was born into a family of 4 children including herself; She was the oldest. Rogers at a very young age always showed an interest in learning she loved reading books and learning new things. When she was 10 years old, Rogers knew all the Greek Alphabet. She was a nurse who specialized in Public Health. She started off her educational career by gaining her Nursing Diploma from Knoxville General Hospital and went on advancing her career in gaining her Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Nursing, Master’s Degree, and her Doctorate Degree in Nursing. Not only was she a nurse, she was also a researcher, theorist, and publisher. She published 3 books and many articles. Martha E. Rogers is also recognized on the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame. Rogers impact on nursing today is known as the Science of Unitary Human Beings.

Imogene King was born in 1921in Iowa. Growing up, she dreamed of being a teacher but began nursing school to escape her small town life. She graduated with a diploma in nursing in 1945, then three years later earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing Education and worked as medical-surgical instructor and an assistant director at St. John’s School of Nursing until 1958, fulfilling her lifelong dream of being a teacher wither nursing career. She went on to earn a Master of Science in Nursing in 1957 and a doctorate in education in 1961 (Imogene King, 2011). King then became an associate professor at Loyola University in Chicago and formed a master’s degree program that was based on her nursing concepts, which later became the framework for her theory.

As such, Kealy’s essay better encompasses the nursing history as a whole (Kealy,

“changing face of medicine.” She also wrote many informing publications such as, The Scientific Method In Biology, and the, Human Element in Sex. All that she had accomplished created a new chapter in medical history where women become apart of the healthcare professions.

Her passion grew more as the years went by. The next step that followed was an advanced nursing degree.

She studied here for two years earning her diploma in nursing. Sibbal states that “At graduation, she won the beside nursing prize and began her career in 1939 as a supervisor in anesthesia at the Royal Vic” (2005). After graduation Glass lived the opposite of a sedimentary life. She married an air force pilot, who became an instructor during world war two. This meant that they had to travel from place to place not really having a home (Sibbald, 2005). After traveling and working in 1960 she decided to return to school. Glass attended Columbia University in 1960 to attain her Bachelor of Science Degree and her Masters of Arts Degree in 1961. In 1970 she completed both her masters of education in and Doctor of education (in nursing) in 1971 (University of Manitoba, 1999). Her level of education allowed her to thrive and implement various programs and attained many

Florence Nightingale is known as the pioneer of nursing and evidence- based health care. Many believe that she was the founder of what we call modern nursing today. During her time as a nurse she had founded her school of nursing at St. Thomas Hospital in 1860 as well she wrote many nursing books such as Notes on Nursing wrote in

In 1891, at the age of 22, Lillian Wald decided to attend nursing school. She moved to New York and acquired her education at New York Hospital’s Training School

In the last couple of centuries, nursing career becomes one of the most important careers in the planet. This phenomenon occurs due to the help of nursing pioneers who advocated for the nursing career. These nursing’s advocates had developed the nursing philosophy and theory which has been served from their time until now. To talk about nursing advocates, no one cannot leave behind Florence Nightingale as a nurse pioneer who had advocated for the nursing career and played a tremendous role in nursing which can bring some changes in public policy change today. Basically, the nursing history had started with Nightingale.

Secondly, through all of the other nursing theorists that we learnt about in this course including Patricia Benner, Josephine Patterson, Loretta Zderad, Jean Watson, and