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Nursing Florence Nightingale was an immense impact on nursing, who “became famous for her revolutionary work as a nurse during the Crimean War” (Kent 30). “She dedicated her life to improving conditions in hospitals, beginning in an army hospital during the Crimean War,” (3 Registered). Her actions were then used by “concerned individuals, rather than by professionally trained nurses” during the Civil War, (Registered 279). Many of Nightingale’s ideas were brought into modern times, but with the improvement of technology and licensed nurses. With the influence and patience of Florence Nightingale, nursing has evolved into an outstanding career.

Cherry and Jacob state that Nightingale “introduced principles of asepsis and infection control, a system for transcribing physician’s orders, and a procedure to maintain patient records” (Cherry & Jacob, 2014, p. 8). Florence Nightingale also established the first nursing school in 1860 at the St. Thomas’ Hospital of London (Cherry & Jacob, 2014). Not only is Nightingale the founder of professional nursing, she is also recognized for contributing to nursing research, involvement in political activism, and for her establishment to provide formal nursing education to pursing nurses (Cherry & Jacob, 2014).

Nightingale, F. (1860).Notes on nursing: what it is and what it is not. New York:D.Appleton And Company.

Professional Presence & Influence Ashley A. Lewis Western Governors University Florence Nightingale, considered the founder of modern nursing, first began to establish nursing as a profession during the Crimean War. Since then, nursing theorists have continued to expand on the thought that patients are made up of more than just the symptoms they present with, Abraham Maslow, Carl Jung, Dr. Larry Dossey and Dorothy Johnson, but none more so than Jean Watson. She developed a theory of human caring that contained several core concepts, these concepts lay forth the ground work for how we, as nurses, should care for a patient. These concepts included transpersonal caring relationships (going beyond ego to higher “spiritual” caring

Florence Nightingale and Nola Pender Community and Public Health Nursing Theories The conceptual and theoretical nursing models of Florence Nightingale and Nola Pender helps to provide knowledge to improve advanced nursing practice, guide research and curriculum and identify the goals of nursing practice. Florence Nightingales model

If Nightingale were alive today, she would find it strange hospitals exist at all. She regarded them as belonging to a stage of "imperfect civilization", and envisaged their end by the year 2000. Florence would have understood the growth of the primary care movement. Having its roots in her own work, she would have been alarmed by the conditions of acute care evident in some hospitals today. High bed-occupancy rates, the poor hygiene, and the lack of space and of privacy .All of which go against the central tenets of her writings.

Florence Nightingale’s Theory & The Four Concepts of Nursing Introduction Florence Nightingale, or as soldiers on the battlefield would call her the “Lady with the Lamp”, was an inspirational women of the nineteenth century that had many aspirations and dreams concerning the care of others. Achieving these dreams by “facilitating the reparative processes of the body by manipulating the patient’s environment” (Potter & Perry 2009, p. 45); Nightingale laid the foundations of modern nursing and gave the country and many others a system that has stood the test and remains timeless. In this, Florence has become one of the most widely known nursing theorist to this day.

Florence Nightingale’s Impact on Medicine a. Vignette of a hospital pre Nightingale era Imagine a room in a hospital; you are lying on a bed, with linens since your admission, the room is very cold and dark at the same time, without proper ventilation. The bathroom you have does not have proper drainage; outside environment is as noisy as having a construction site as a neighbor. Health care providers come in just for the job and merely not care about you; their hands are not even clean and washed. Imagine these kinds of situation, what kind of environment are you having? Do you a place to heal or a place to die? Since the beginning of Modern Nursing, these scenes are commonly practiced and are usual in a way that it is considered a normal place to rest and be taken care of.

Florence Nightingale, the founder of the Red Cross, was an incredibly passionate and honestly one of the most influential women to ever live. Nightingale lived in a higher class than most, however she decided that she would rather spend the rest of her days saving and aiding illness bound

History Bisk(2016) claimed from the earliest times Florence Nightingale helped evolve the world of Nursing. Nightingale also set standards for the profession as the world knows it's today. She started her profession when she was just a child and began to care for the ill villagers around her family home. In 1854,Nightingale was asked to form a team of nurses to care for the sick or injured soldiers in Crimea. She also cared for patients all hours of the day at night using an oil lamp so she was able to see at night while attending to her patients. When Nightingale was done in Crimea she arrived at England she wrote notes on matters affecting health. The notes later helped reform several military

IV. Advocacy A. Florence Nightingale’s advocacy for individuals started after her first nursing job as a superintendent in a hospital. The facility was in poor condition. She demonstrated advocacy for individuals by participating in “a healthcare situation under her control that allowed her to create and utilize environmental and patient care standards that were to become foundational to the development of modern nursing.” (Selanders & Crane, 2012).

One of the most unrevealed facts about Florence nightingale is that she encountered several obstacles during her nursing career. The medical profession was not supportive of her holistic approach to healing. During the Crimean war, many soldiers were dying of preventable diseases

Rehmeyer (2008) picks up where The Open University video leaves off and describes the horrific conditions Nightingale first experienced when volunteering her time at Crimean War hospitals. Faced with stench, filth, little food, and minimal basic first aid supplies, Nightingale made the best of the situation and her nurses. Focused primarily on patient care, Nightingale was able to turn the military hospitals into well run and efficient facilities over a short time frame because of her attention to cleanliness, appearance and training of hospital staff or volunteers. Florence Nightingale left the Crimean War a well-known public figure; however she still did not think her nursing duties were completed. She personally felt the pain of the

Road to Reform Nightingale’s reform and career as a nurse really took off in 1954 when she began working at British hospitals during the Crimean War (Tunstall, 2016). She oversaw the introduction of the new nurses at a military hospital in Turkey (Cohen, 1984). Nightingale worked in hospitals that had terrible conditions. The bandages used for the patents were unsanitary, the water was rancid, and the food was repulsive (Florence, 2016). The hospital itself was filled with rats and flees (Cohen, 1984). The building was on top of a sewer system causing dirty air to be pushed up in to rooms overcrowded with patients (Cohen, 1984). The sheets were washed in cold water and were so unclean that they had to be thrown out or burned most of the

Abstract As a young woman, Nightingale often accompanied her mother when she visited the sick. This inspired her to want to be a nurse, and against her parents’ wishes she entered a nurses’ training program. During the Crimean war she was asked by a family friend to come and care for the British soldiers at the army hospital. While there she witnessed filth, vermin, and death. Upon seeing the unsanitary conditions and the health risk to the soldiers she began her crusade to establish an environment that would promote health and healing. Thus: The Environmental Theory.