Essay on Lavinia L Dock

In 1917, Amelia and her mother took a trip to Toronto, Canada, even though, there was a war happening. Amelia saw wounded soldiers on her left and right. She knew she had to help in some way. So, she stayed in Toronto and became a nurse’s aid. This began her path down the medical and nursing road. After the war, Amelia started premedical nursing school in New York. (Lardner, 207).

What if you had to make a decision that could end all wrong doings in a mill? In the book Lyddie, Lyddie is facing some problems in the mill like harassment, dangerous machines that can cause her serious pain and even air full of dust and Betsy a friend of Lyddie wants to show others what's happening in the mill and wants to start a petition. Lyddie should sign the petition because of the harassment and treatment of one person and the unhealthy and dangerous environment.

Jane Addams, a pioneering social worker, helped bring attention to the possibility of revolutionizing America’s attitude toward the poor. Not only does she remain a rich source of provocative social theory to this day, her accomplishments affected the philosophical, sociological, and political thought. Addams was an activist of courage and a thinker of originality. Jane Addams embodied the purest moral standards of society which were best demonstrated by her founding of the Hull-House and her societal contributions, culminating with the winning of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize.

Jane Addams wrote and lectured on a wide variety of social issues, including child labor, public health, unemployment relief, and social insurance. Jane Addams was an American social worker, woman suffrage leader, and peace activist. Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860 in Cedarville, IL. In her younger years, she attended the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania from 1881-1882 to study medication. In fact, she strongly believed in the research of poverty and crime. Also, she believed in the importance of trained social workers and in the need to press in for social reforms. Jane Addams was a leader in women’s suffrage and world peace, she helped in the needs of children and adults that were poor, and she was well known for winning a Nobel Peace prize.

Reading the book Josie’s Story, was an emotional but, powerful experience. I really enjoyed the perspective it gave. The intimate details in the story give the reader a feeling and an idea of what Sorrel King went through as well as the rest of her family. It is not just a story you can read and then not question aspects of your own care as a nurse, nor the healthcare system itself. One important phrase that resonates with me and I hope to never hear in my nursing practice is when King (2010) asserts “She died because you did not listen to me” (p. 65). The book details Sorrel King’s quest to improve healthcare by making it safer. It is an important book that gives insight and brings up the importance of patient safety, communication in healthcare, and the culture of healthcare. It also gives value and credence to the role

Alice Magaw was born November 9, 1860, in Cashocton, Ohio. Besides her contribution to nursing, little is known about Alice’s personal life and what inspired her to enter the field on nursing. However, one can guess that she saw a demand for nurses and had a passion for caring for others. During this time period, nursing schools were incorporated into hospitals. Alice Magaw attended the Women’s Hospital School of Nursing in Chicago from 1887 to1889, around the time that nursing began to transform from a lower class occupation to a respectable profession. After graduation Alice worked as a private duty nurse in Chicago. In 1893, Alice began her work under Dr. William J. and Charles H.

Dorothea Dix – led the movement, successfully won legislation in Massachusetts to provide aid to the insane

Florence Nightingale was an admirable leader because despite her gender she kept striving for what she wanted in a world ruled by men. She had determination, honesty, integrity, and respect from her peers. She fought diligently for women to receive an education and developed renowned ways of how to prevent and treat illnesses. She made improvements that benefited society, the population and as well as her peers. She was a leader that put others before herself and wanted equal success for all. She was committed to her mission and with that she showed that a nurse should have compassion. This relates to nursing being both an art and a science. She emphasized the need for empathy, as she believed that being empathetic could also help improve with recovery. Nightingale took initiative in the work she did and as a leader you need to take action and be proactive. An important contribution Nightingale made that has impacted our education and also improved the environment was her hadnwashing theory. She implemented hand hygiene and that helped prevent infection and illnesses. Florence Nightingale is an example of which nurses should follow. We must be leaders and take action. Nursing is not just a job, but it is a profession where you protect the rights of others and at the same time help people in their

because of her belief for equal rights, her nursing skills during the war, and the birth of

Florence Kelley is considered one of the great contributors to the social rights of workers, particularly women and children. She is best known as a prominent Progressive social reformer known for her role in helping to improve social conditions of the twentieth century. She has been described as a woman of fierce fidelity (Goldmark, 1953). Kelley was a leading voice in the labor, suffragette, children’s and civil rights movements. She was also a well-educated and successful woman, a rare combination during the turn of the twentieth century.

As evidenced by her accomplishments in founding programs to help others, her willingness to advocate for the patient, an awareness of the need of community care, the foresight to document patients and hospital conditions, and her desire to be educated at a higher level than most, there is little doubt she would have not only met expectations of nurses in regards to the legal and ethical standards set forth by state and federal guidelines. She perhaps would have been standing in front of legislature petitioning change to improve the standards of medical care

After practically losing everything, she devoted her life to bigger causes. She supported the labor movement and became a part of the ‘Knights of Labor’ and gave inspiring speeches to the striking workers.

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.

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

Merle Hodge ‘In the life of Laetitia’, published in 1994 by Farrar Straus Giroux of New York; Paperback, Aerial Fiction, 244 pages. The Novel was written by Merle Hodge a Trinidadian novelist and critic, she’s a lecturer at the University of the West Indies, she’s also the Author of the 1970 novel ‘Crick Crack, Monkey’, which is a classic of West Indian literature. The story is about an adolescent girl (Laetitia) who begins on a life changing journey, after successfully passing the common entrance exams that enables her to attend the government secondary school in La Puerta. It was a dream come true, as no other member of her family had an opportunity to obtain a secondary education. It bring to