In her early life, Nightingale mentored other nurses, known as Nightingale Probationers, who then went to one also work to make safer, healthier hospitals. In 1894, Nightingale trained several of the volunteer nurses who served along with her in the Crimean War. These nurses be leaning to the injured soldiers and sent reports back regarding the position of the troops. Nightingale and her nurses reformed the hospital so that clean tools was always available and reorganized patient care. Nightingale soon realized that many of the soldiers were dying because of unsanitary living conditions, and, after the war, she worked to improve livelihood conditions. While she was at war, the Florence Nightingale Fund for the Training of Nurses was established in her honor. After the war, Nightingale wrote Notes on Nursing and opened the Women’s Medical College with Dr. Elizabeth…
Kelly, J. (2012). Editorial: What has Florence Nightingale ever done for clinical nurses?. Journal Of Clinical Nursing, 21(17/18), 2397-2398. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2702.2010.03455.x…
In the mid of 19th century Florence Nightingale started her mission to improve health care and create nursing as a profession. From her own experience and observations during Crimean War she became urgent to decrease high at this time mortality rate. As McDonald (2001) noted “Nightingale returned from the Crimean War with a conviction that the desperate loss of life she witnessed should never occur again” (p.68).…
Summary The Nightingale is set in France during World War II about the lives two completely different sisters, Isabelle and Vianne. Vianne is married to Antoine, who is fighting against the Nazi’s. Vianne wants nothing to do with the war, she just wants to be a mother to her daughter Sophia. Isabelle on the other hand wants to join the resistance and help fights the Nazi’s.…
Another of Nightingale great contribution was the improvement of care provided by the hospitals. In the early 1800’s hospital were dirty, unhealthy and poorly build. These conditions increased the mortality rate among patients. In 1853 she accepted a job a local hospital. This job represented a challenge to Nightingale especially after cholera out break and the unhealthy conditions of the hospital that helped to spread the disease. Nightingale was able to show her skills as an administrator as well improve the nursing care and the hospital efficiency. Soon she was promoted to superintendent. Her next biggest challenge was the Crimean War; when she was ask by the secretary of war Sidney Herbert to organized a division of nurses. She assembled…
Florence Nightingale was a young and talented woman. Who, she had to overcome to outstand her wishes to become a nurse, at least from the family. She had become the first woman for the nursing field. During the Victorian Era one was obligated to marry within their social class and obtain a job within their given range. By the age of 16 that was when she realized that nursing is calling upon her name and stating that’s her duty to become one. As opposed to her family wishes she had decided to join as a nursing student in 1844, at the Lutheran Hospital of Pastor Fliedner in Kaiserswerth, Germany.During the Crimean war in the early 1850s, Nightingale had returned to London where she took a nursing job in a Middlesex hospital. During the late 1854, Nightingale received a letter from Secretary of War Sidney Herbert, asking her to organize a corps of nurses to tend to the sick and fallen soldiers in the Crimea.…
Florence Nightingale was born into a wealthy British family at the Villa Colombaia in Florence, Italy. She was inspired by what she thought to be a divine calling. At the age of 17 at Embley Park, Nightingale made a commitment to nursing and human healthcare. This decision demonstrated strong will on her part in that she was willing to go beyond normality. It had constituted a rebellion against the expected role for women at that time, which was to become an obedient and humble wife. Nursing was a career with a poor reputation during that period of time. It was filled mostly by poor women, called "hangers-on", who had followed the armies when in war or in hardship. Nightingale announced her decision about nursing to her family in 1845,…
Nursing is a job we would consider a very selfless job. It’s a job that requires you to be at your best at every moment because someone’s life or well-being is depending on you. Long shifts may get you tired, you may not have a lunch break because you are working non-stop but you could care less. All you care about is impacting the lives of others. You are constantly putting others before yourself. Well in this case Florence Nightingale was the person who did just that. Florence Nightingale was born on May 12 in the year of 1820 in Florence Italy. Her parents named her after the Italian cities in Italy. In her early teens Florence discovered that she wanted to become a nurse not just because she wanted to do it, but the simple fact that she had got a “calling from God” to do God’s work. Florence’s parents did not want her to pursue the career in being a nurse because they did not make as much during those days. But this didn’t stop her she continued to fulfill her dreams at the age of 17 and was determined not to get distracted for…
Thousands of British soldiers were sent to the Black Sea, where they quickly ran out of supplies. A year later, approximately 18,000 soldiers had been admitted into the military hospitals. And at that point in time, there were no female nurses working at the hospitals in Crimea. The horrible reputation of nurses thus far, led to war officials avoiding to hire more. In late 1854, Nightingale received a letter from the Secretary of War, asking her to get together a group of nurses to help the ill and fallen soldiers in Crimea. She quickly got together a team of 34 nurses and went with them to Crimea just a few days…
Florence Nightingale, considered the founder of nursing, corner stoned the impact of nursing as an organized discipline in 1853 (Finklelman, 2013). She posed a systematic approach to nursing, manipulating the internal and external environment to implement benefit the health and facilitates the body’s restorative process (Finklelman, 2013).…
Value of trained nurses was brought to light by Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War. In early November, 1854 Nightingale and 38 trained nurses traveled to Scutari, finding themselves on the frontlines of a sanitary and medical disaster. The hospital barracks were infested with fleas and rats, soldiers were lying in make-shift beds made of straw with dirty linens and bandages festering with disease and infection. Just six months after Nightingale and her team arrived mortality in the hospital dropped from 42.7 percent to 2.2 percent (Coehn, 1985). During the civil war, nurses in the United States reduced morbidity and mortality rates in…
Nightingale, F. (1860).Notes on nursing: what it is and what it is not. New York:D.Appleton And Company.…
In the 1900’s Florence Nightingale brought society’s respect during the Crimean war; consequently, due to her work as an advocate for the patient; nurses were seen as guardian angels, noble, compassionate, moral, religious, dedicated, educated in addition of white face in the white uniform (2008, p.8). Nurses continue to suffer from a poor public image that it has been difficult to defeat.…
Florence Nightingale - The word "nurse" is synonymous with Florence Nightingale, the most famous nurse of all time. A British nurse who worked during the 19th century, Nightingale was a selfless nurse who braved harsh conditions in battle during the Crimean War. Also a statistician, Nightingale's dedication to reducing the deaths of British Army soldiers sproduced some groundbreaking findings on the living conditions of patients. Nightingale advocated cleanliness for all people in the hopes to reduce illness and death.…
Her contributions were huge to nursing and women in general even in the present. Besides the reforms she helped push through, she was also a major supporter of women’s rights. She helped raise money to open nursing schools and argued for the disposal of the restrictions on women’s careers. In 1860 she organized the first training school for nurses in London, England. She was a pioneer in the schooling of nurses. She made more women want to join the working ranks and become nurses. (Simkin)…