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    This paper discusses how Florence Nightingale was a complex woman‚ largely responsible for the state of nursing as we know it today. For all of her efforts‚ she was a product of her upbringing. She had amazing success with changing the hospital conditions in Crimea and establishing the nursing profession as a respectable one before becoming a recluse upon her return to England. This paper highlights some of the events of Florence Nightingale’s life as well as how her nursing theory has played a most

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    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

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    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

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    Florence Nightingale Environment Theory of Nursing. Major concepts essential to the Theory. Patient care theory‚ environmentally oriented‚ where the patient environment should be altered to allow nature to act on the patient. (Alligood‚ 2010). Nurses are to use common sense‚ observation and initiative to allow nature to heal the patient. The use of Nightingales thirteen canons: Ventilation‚ Warmth Light Cleanliness of rooms Health of houses Noise Bed and bedding Variety Chattering of hopes and

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    Florence Nightingale‚ a name most people know even if you aren’t a nurse‚ pioneered or ‘paved’ many of the ways of how we nurse today. She gathered her data and organized it in such a way to improve hospital conditions‚ and saved many lives‚ through pie charts‚ graphs and statistics. The data was proof that mortality rates were down‚ and sanitary conditions were improved in hospitals. In focusing on these trends‚ Florence Nightingale opened up the way for the populations

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    Florence nightingale who was established for the training nurses during a public meeting. She was considered pioneer in the medical tourism as well. For most of her life spent she was promoting and organising the nursing profession. Florence also wrote everyday sanitary knowledge or the knowledge of nursing or that it can recover from disease it takes a higher place. Though Florence sometimes said to have denied the theory of infection for her entire life the biography disagrees. But Nightingale

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    lo 1. When Mrs. Nightingale went to Kaiserwerth-am-Rein in Germany she learned three core things that influenced her future ideas. They were hygiene‚ nutrition‚ and that nursing is more than just caring‚ it is a science. 2. When Mrs. Nightingale was implemented as the hospital administrator in London she improved the hospital in many ways. She educated nurses‚ had a medical company in the hospital to dispense medicine as needed‚ and had ideas of lifts to pass out food as well as piping hot

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    maternal instinct women were considered born nurses. They cared for their own family and trained their daughters and other women in their community in the procedures in which they specialized. In the 16th century the meanings nursing included "a person‚ or a woman who waits upon or tends to the sick". During the 19th century‚ nursing was considered training of those who tend to the sick and carrying out duties under direction of a physician (Donahue‚ 1996). Today‚ nursing has become both an art

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    Ms. Florence Nightingale was originally born in Italy‚ Florence on May 12‚ 1820. Her mother was Frances Nightingale‚ and her father was William S. Nightingale. Florence only had one sister by the name of Frances Parthenope Verney. As they grew up together Florence herself became a nurse and her sister became an English writer and journalist. Her childhood was a very active one. At a young age she was very active in philanthropy‚ caring for the ill and poor people. By the time she was 16 she knew

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    character. One woman saw these unhealthy conditions and sought to change them. Florence Nightingale was a nurse who changed the way hospitals work and saved a lot of lives. Her faith in God helped her overcome obstacles‚ including her parent’s disapproval. Florence Nightingale did a lot of things when she was alive. Like the stuff she changed‚ helping during the Crimean War‚ and a fundraiser (that was for her). She changed hospitals‚ nurse training‚ and wrote books with nursing tips and such. During

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