Someone who has impacted the world… “I stand at the altar of the murdered men and while I live I shall fight their cause.” These words‚ spoken by Florence Nightingale‚ very neatly sum up her life`s ambitions. She was born on May 12‚ 1820‚ into a family of “new money” which was trying to fit in with Victorian society‚ where working was considered undignified and women were supposed to be frail. Florence went against these rules and went on to seek a career in nursing‚ despite her family’s disapproval
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Nursing Theorist Grid Theorist Selected: Florence Nightingale Description of Theory: Nightingale was the first to publish her theory in 1860 about the importance of the environment on the patient and healing. The patient in connection with the environment‚ air‚ temperature‚ light‚ water and remaining clean that contribute to the healing process (Parker‚ 2006). Her theory also states that it is the nurses calling to assist the patient to place him or her in the best conditions for
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Juarez Dr. Ward ENGL 2312 19 February 2013 Ode to a Nightingale In “Ode to a Nightingale‚” the most evident characteristic of Romanticism is the feeling and emotion. This is portrayed since the beginning: “My heart aches‚ and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense‚ as though of hemlock I had drunk‚ / Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains” (lines 1-3). The speaker feels as though he has been poisoned or drugged since he can not see the nightingale. The birds’ song has this paralyzing effect on him
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Week 4 Compare/Contrast “2001: A Space Odyssey & “The Sentinel” Science Fiction In the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”‚ it deals with a series of encounters between humans and a mysterious black monoliths that is apparently effecting human evolution. In the short story “The Sentinel”‚ the story basically reverses the roll of the black monoliths. The narrator in the short story speculates that the mysterious aliens who left the monolith behind may have used mechanisms belonging “to a technology
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Florence Nightingale Born in 1820 to a wealthy family‚ Florence was educated at home by her father. She aspired to serve others‚ in particular she wanted to become a nurse. Her parents were opposed - at that time‚ nursing was not seen as a respectable profession. Despite her parents disapproval‚ Florence went ahead and trained to be a nurse. In 1853‚ the Crimea war broke out.The war was too terrifying that many soldiers were wounded and dying without proper first aids. Later in 1855‚ Florence Nightingale
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Ode to a Nightingale (Critical Appreciation) Written in May 1819‚ many believe Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” to have been written at the home of Charles Brown‚ when Keats sat and listened to the bird in the garden for some hours. In form this poem is a “regular ode”. There is a uniformity of the number of lines and of the rhyme-scheme in all the stanzas. Anyway this is more complex poem than "Ode to Autumn‚" consisting of eight stanzas and is a little more irregular in structure. Each stanza
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Florence Nightingale: The Founder of Modern Nursing Abstract Florence Nightingale believed that the nursing profession was “God’s calling” for her. Regardless‚ of the reputation that nurses had. Hospitals were dirty‚ smelly‚ overcrowded places that were full of diseases. Her focus was on the patients ’ health. She realized that once the patients were clean and genuinely cared for‚ their health improved. She made sure that the hospitals were clean. In which helped diseases from spreading
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Florence Nightingale can be titled the pioneer of the nursing profession. Her theory of the impact of the environment to human health created history and is still used today. Her focus is on making a clean‚ healthy‚ calming environment to promote a fast and productive recovery. After Florence Nightingale came up with her theory she based a school of nursing on it. This nursing theory is very important even in today’s healthcare system. In this essay I will describe Florence Nightingales theory and
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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. Isabelle gets sent to many different boarding schools because she always runs away from them to go back to her father‚ who
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Florence Nightingale‚ OM‚ RRC (play /ˈflɒrəns ˈnaɪtɨŋɡeɪl/; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician‚ and the founder of modern nursing. She came to prominence while serving as a nurse during the Crimean War‚ where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night. Early 21st century commentators have asserted Nightingale’s achievements in the Crimean War had been exaggerated by the media
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