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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.

The incidence which is mostly remembered in reference to the services of Florence Nightingale is the leadership of Florence Nightingale after the war, after her death her biographers called her “lady with the lamp”. The readings on Florence Nightingale will depict that she was a great social activist. She was continuously involved in the services to help and nurture mankind. She possessed a heart of an angel. Nightingales activities were related to her belief that one should try to help humanity in order to be near to the God. She really loved her God and all her writings were related to this topic. As stated by Nightingale "It is not, God will not punish, we shall therefore not surely die. It is, God loves us, and therefore why will we die? One says that God is careless, the other that He is loving." In an unpublished sermon she insisted on God's "real personal interest in our welfare," not just His "mercy generally." It was hard to believe this, she acknowledged, "But if this belief once takes possession of our hearts, then are we redeemed indeed."

Florence Nightingale, born in 1820, revolutionized nursing as it is today. Throughout her time working with the wounded soldiers during the Crimean War, she noted that more soldiers were dying of infections than from wounds. Therefore, she worked to ensure sanitation as well as sufficient health and healing practices amongst her patients. From care to prevention, Nightingale’s practices were able to set the foundation for nurses today. Nightingale distinguished that a healthy environment is essential to one’s health and thus her tenets of ventilation, cleanliness, light, as well as nutrition set the bases of the City of Toronto’s tuberculosis program for the under-housed, homeless, and the correctional population.

“In these conditions, it was not surprising that in army hospitals, war wounds only accounted for one death in six. Diseases such as typhus, cholera, and dysentery were the main reasons why the death rate was so high amongst wounded soldiers” (Spartacus, 2011, ¶ 10). Nightingale went on to establish sanitary guidelines to improve nursing quality, statistical ways of obtaining data, and most importantly environmental factors to improve patient quality. What we know of Florence Nightingale is that although she was born into a wealthy family, she had a different drive in her life towards helping other humans. Nightingale demonstrated pure altruism, but why? What constitutes for her behaviors and traits, there must be a key to unlocking the personality development of Florence Nightingale.

Recently at our high school there has been controversy over the topic of open campus. Is this a good idea? Letting growing adults off on their own well-being is a horrible idea. These students should be watched at all times and monitored. The food provided by our school is government approved and good for nutrition. But, of course if we have students off on their own they won’t come back to school. School is meant to be a safe and educational place for all students.

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.

When one hears the name, Florence Nightingale, the word nurse is instantly paired with it because of her contributions to nursing. Florence Nightingale became a national heroine after nursing the British troops at Scutari in the Crimean War during 1854-56 and became a pioneer for nursing using sanitary and administrative techniques. According to editor, Lynn McDonald, in Florence Nightingale- An Introduction to Her Life and Family: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Vol. 1, “Nightingale’s work on the foundation of nursing was a life-long preoccupation, but it was a part of a broader concern to reform public healthcare, prevent disease, and promote health” (84). However, many historians believe her ignorance of sanitation caused the death toll at Scutari to rise.

At the center of Florence Nightingale's model is the patient, as they are the one receiving care. In healthcare, and as nurses, we encourage patients to participate in their own care. Each patient is unique and has needs that are different from the patient next door. We demonstrate altruism by being concerned about the well-being of our patients, and it is our responsibility to promote this value. Doing so involves an understanding of a patient’s individual beliefs, and taking risks on their behalf. Nightingale also mentions the importance of variety (Dowell, 2015). I have had patients that stay for more than a week, feeling confined to the four walls of their small room. Doing things as simple as going for walks or

Throughout history, society has considered women to be the natural caregivers of children, family, and community. Women were naturally thought of as nurses because the act was said to be an extension of their role in the home. They were called in to homes to help deliver babies or as wet nurses to breastfeed. In the 1800’s, women began taking care of soldiers. It was then that Florence Nightingale cared for soldiers in the Crimean War. During this time she revolutionized the role by setting standards of cleanliness and reducing infection. The legacy of nursing continues to be enriched by those who continue to follow the example of nursing pioneers. They refuse to be bound by others’ views

As a result, Florence and about 38 other nurses went and helped in the Crimean war. She helped them realize that in order to get better faster, they have to have a clean environment. The soldiers were poorly cared for and medicines scarce. The soldiers neglected hygiene and the infections were uncontrolled. Florence and the team of nurses improved the unsanitary conditions and reduced the death count by two-thirds. Sadly, Florence contracted the Crimean fever and never healed completely. When she returned home, she was surprised to be acknowledge with a hero’s welcome. By the time she was around 38, she was bedridden but still continued her work. Her writings sparked worldwide health care reform. She later died on August 13, 1910.

Growing up he would go hunting and shooting. When Florence was young she said, “God called upon her to help the sick and poor.” Soon after she took action. Florence took group thirty-eight nurses to an overseas hospital of the British army during the Crimean War.

Florence Nightingale out together a team of nurses to assist with wounded soldiers during the Crimean War.

Florence Nightingale was a visionary ahead of her time, someone who saw things for the way they could be rather than just the way they were. One area in which she envisioned a change was in the conditions of workhouse infirmaries, facilities for the poor that were notorious for their filth and spread of disease (McDonald, L., 2006b). Florence recognized that skilled nursing care, along with proper organization and structure of workhouse infirmaries could significantly reduce the transmission of disease and, in fact, improve the overall health of the population being served (McDonald, L., 2003). Through undertaking the start of this reform,

The professionalism and determination Nightingale showed was a major inspiration and is taught to people all over the world when going through nursing school today. The progress that Nightingale proved increased the population for medical help by scrubbing all the injured men’s clothes during the Crimean War. When Nightingale spent her own money buying bandages, operating tables, and anything that could help wounded soldiers in need she felt delighted. Nightingale was disgusted in the germs and diseases that were spreading and did everything in her power to stop the spread of contamination. Today, Nightingale is known as a hero to many people considering she changed hospitals and saved many lives with her hard work. If Nightingale wouldn’t of found nursing she wouldn’t of been able to change the profession of nursing forever. Nursing used to be a profession with little respect and people thought they wouldn’t need any training and it could just be done with simple knowledge. The amount of education needed for the nursing profession today is not done with simple head knowledge. Even though Nightingale got her education at King’s College London in 1851, where she studied nursing for three months, to be the best influence on her family and the rest of the people that she wanted to astonish. Many things were left behind from Nightingale but she wanted influence people today in her dignity in establishing the nursing profession to allow patients to receive better care

The U.S institutions of higher education around the world have many different and unique ways of educating their students. The students inside these classrooms often apply techniques used by peers to better help their understanding of the world around them. Students should ultimately be more enlightened when they finish at a college or university then when they started. These skills that they learn at higher education places should leave these people educated to their fullest potential when they leave, and should leave them with certain skills and abilities that all educated people should posses. Professors, along with universities, should be able to persuade or change a student’s core beliefs by intriguingly adding insight to ones life and ultimately making them more educated.