Essays on Florence Nightingale

1. Summarize Journal Articles The article “Florence Nightingale: Her Personality Type” by Dossey (2010) examines the famous nurse Florence Nightingale according to her personality type. Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Dossey determines that Nightingale was an IITJ (introverted-intuitive-thinking-judging) personality. The author worked from a collection of Nightingale’s own written work and her letters, as well as her history. Dossey breaks Nightingale’s personality down into these four factors, using her life and work as a template to explain those personality traits. For instance, Nightingale is determined to be introverted due to her desire to be alone in ...

In the past 3 decades, there has been a significant increase in nurse shortage with the numbers expected to fall even more by the end of 2020. Most researchers, healthcare managers, and nurse leaders assume that the issue has been resolved but the truth is it is far more disastrous. Nursing shortage has many negative implications within the healthcare system. Registered nurses have a high demand in the market place, wherein the current RN workforce of over 2.7 ˘million is expect to grow above 3.5 million by 2022 (AACN 2014). Due to the increasing number of elderly patients, acute ...

1. How would the nurse practicing from Nightingale’s theory, begin her home visit? What would be the priority for the nurse in this situation? Home visits provide an opportunity for the nurse to access the situation of the client at their home. Based on this assessment, the nurse can make decisions, and plan her care activities. In this given client, she has two children who are been taken care, along with a cat. Considering the situation of the room in which the children spend are raised, there is poor ventilation, and potential source of contamination like the cat, ...

Nursing is basically defined as an act of protection, optimization and also the promotion of abilities and also health, the act is promoted by nurses who are professionally trained on how to prevent injuries and illness as well as aiding in the alleviation of suffering on patients by clearly diagnosing and treating various human responses. In addition to this nursing as a profession serves as an advocacy in the care and protection of different individuals and even families. Therefore the basic elements and characteristics of nursing revolve around the practical professionalism of offering care for those who are either ...

The young generation endeavors to build a healthy and high-performance society based on principles of activity, vitality of the body and positivity. According to that and due to the fact of raising unfavorable disasters the popularity rating of starting the career within the healthcare area has been increasing throughout past decades. The many young adults show an interest in life saving and demonstrating their skills to provide the community with well-qualified medical workers such as registered nurses (RN). It is significant to absorb the features of the nursing profession in order to estimate its pros and cons for those ...

Thesis statement: The occupation of a Registered Nurse seems to take an enormous amount of responsibility. The duties of a Registered Nurse are many. Nurses also "assist physicians during treatments and examinations." The jobs of a Registered Nurse will be a challenge for me. The working conditions of a nurse range from one extreme to the next.

INTRODUCTION

The history and evolution of the Registered Nurses roles Nursing is a profession that begun as a result of women who cared for soldiers The Profession however developed latter on into the 19th century during which it was now viewed as an ...

The Millennium Development Goals make up the action plan created by the United Nations in order to help developing countries improve their living conditions, medical services, educational and social aspects of their people’s lives. This work is aimed at the consideration of the eight Millennium Development Goals with regard to nursing profession. The legacy of the famous Florence Nightingale cannot but influence the perception of these Millennium Goals. Many of her opinions and attitudes resonate with the Goals, which is impossible to overlook. Florence Nightingale’s avocation was nursing and helping ill. Therefore each and every nurse familiar ...

Owing to the different types of nursing practice available, it is easy to confuse these on consideration of all being professional nursing practices. However, this concept is based on the assessment of various contributing factors. The context of professional nursing practice is premised on the definition of ‘profession.’ According to Masters (2014), a profession refers to a chosen occupation that is guided by standard rules of practice and one that requires formal qualification and prolonged training. In this case, professional nursing practice is explained on the determination of the accepted nursing standards at this level, the requisite nursing educational ...

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Florence Nightingale

The modern day nursing owes thanks and pays tribute to Florence Nightingale, who was a nurse and a statistician by profession. She is acknowledged as the founder of the modern day nursing and her work and contributions to the field are studied across the world in all the countries as part of the graduate syllabus. She was born in 1820 and died in 1910. Born in England, she was very fond of making a difference in the society through her efforts and though she could have opted for any career at that time in any part of ...

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Enter Name of College Here Part A The Board of Nursing is a state governmental agency that primarily regulates various nursing practices within organization. The agency “protects the overall public’s health and welfare to ensure that safe nursing practices are being met at all times” (NCSBN, 2016). Their functional duties may consist of three components which are a) the enforcement of the Nurse Practice Act, b) approving and accrediting various nursing educational programs throughout colleges across the global region and c) the creation and enforcement of policies, regulations and administrative guidelines. Whereas, the difference would be with the ...

Being a nurse is no easy task. It is an occupation which involves being around people who are having, more often than not, a really bad day. For instance, a nurse may be assigned to a dozen patients with varying illnesses. That is 12 different people who need care and support. However, as time passes, a nurse evolves. There are around 3 million nurses who are registered in the United States. (“Quick Facts”) This number includes both new and old nurses in different levels of expertise. Whence she/he started out pliable, moldable and feeling, later in her career, he/she ...

Florence Nightingale’s legacy has influenced many peoples view regarding nursing and the nurses’ perception of the millennium goals. I am one of those greatly intrigued in terms of insight and perception. The eight millennium goals developed by the world leaders in the U.N reflect on the noble work of Florence Nightingale. It is amazing how she could have visualized about the solution to many problems that are even haunting us today, back then. She must have been very visionary (Wagstaff, 2004). Her concern about taking the practice of nursing to a whole different level was a great idea. ...

I believe that the nursing profession is one of the noblest professions in the world. Indeed, this can even be traced back to its pioneers such as Florence Nightingale who concerned themselves with looking after those who were injured during the war. Like any other person, they could have chosen to sit on the fence and avoid doing anything. On the contrary, they immersed themselves in the war, not to fight, but to look after those injured during the war. This was irrespective of which side they belonged to. The care that Florence Nightingale and other pioneers provided to ...

1. Components of Metaparadigm

There are a number of factors that influenced the nursing theorists when it came to the definition and description of the metaparadigm components. In order to understand these factors, it is important to start by understanding and identifying these metaparadigm components. To start with, it is important to have a complete overview and understanding of the person (who is in this case the client for example a patient). Understanding the person societal, psychological, physical as well as physiological variables that might affect him is therefore important (George, 2011). Secondly, the environment in which the person lives both internally and externally is also ...

Anne Crowther’s Why Women should be Nurses and not Doctors compare the differences between female doctors and nurses with respect to a classic example of two of the most prominent figures in their respective fields: Florence Nightingale and Sophia Jex-Blake. The paper starts with the author describing how Nightingale, on return from the Crimean war and already a legend in her field, set up the Nightingale school for nurses. Even though the school was never considered a success, it was able to keep up a good reputation in accordance to the reputation she had made amongst the public. Through the article, the ...

Introduction

In many societies, in the world, the role of women was that of caregiver or nursing care. The nurturing of children by mothers gave people the supposition that the women can provide the same care to the ailing and wounded in the society. Nursing history, as a piece of women’s history, has faced the paradox of being women’s work: invisible, devalued, and underpaid and yet a critical necessity to society (Judd et al., 2010). In the early years, there were no learning that existed for the caregivers, it was a trade passed from one generation to another or through try-out ...

Introduction

The concept of leadership is complex and multidimensional that includes intrapersonal, interpersonal, intergroup and situational variables (Grohar-Murray & DiCroce, 2003). Grohar-Murray and DiCroce (2003) also state that a leader is a person who inspires, develops, gains trust, and relies on people . Nowadays, nurses at all levels of organization are expected to have and exercises leadership skills (Grohar-Murray & DiCroce, 2003) . In this paper, I have chosen Florence Nightingale as a leader to be discussed. I will explain why I have chosen her, what leadership style best describes her, and both positive and negative aspects of this style. I will also give examples where she ...

Florence Nightingale metaparadigms have fundamental aspects on the healthcare programs that emerged in the 19th century and have been in use in the current world. Nightingale was a strong proponent of anti-contagionism that held that for effective control of the spread of diseases, the society ought to remove filth from the local places and leaving the infected people and commerce alone. Such is the basic focus of the health practices that tragedy disease control by targeting the causative agent and the transmitters of the diseases. She advanced her theory on four parts. This paper focuses on the health part. The ...

The following paper will look at various concepts of nursing professional roles and values present in this field.

Explain the functional differences between a regulatory agency, such as a board of nursing (BRN), and a professional nursing organization (PNO) as it pertains to your professional nursing practice. The former is a regulatory agency by the state that an individual who after meeting all the requirements like the required curriculum can apply for a nursing license. The latter is a specific body that emphases on a specific category or field of nursing. A Professional Nursing Organization can offer ongoing education packages, progressionpreciseconferences and certification in that field. The State Board of Examiners for Nursing got positions that arechosen by the director and hasprogressive degrees ...

Paddle surfing is my favorite hobby. Before enrolling in nursing school, I used to go paddle surfing in the sea at least once or twice in the summer. At the sea, I used to see a particular sea lion, which popped its head and faced in my direction. I saw the animal so often that I named it Taki, a Japanese word that describes a plunging waterfall. One day I went out to the sea and saw the sea lion twisting in a weird way. I paddled over and freaked out when I saw a red marine rope made of hemp wrapped around its ...

The Nightingale Pledge: Past, Present and Possible Future

The Nightingale Pledge: Past, Present and Possible Future Florence Nightingale is the most famous nurse in the history of the nursing profession. It perhaps was inevitable that a Nurse’s Pledge, written in 1893 by a Detriot committee of the Farrand Training School for Nurses (Calhoun; 1993), would be named the Nightingale Pledge: “I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully. I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug. I will ...

1970-1980’s (Newman, Parse, Watson, Rogers) iv. Development of the metaparadigm per Fawcett

v. Development of paradigms 1. Simultaneity and Totality 2. Particulate-Deterministic, Interactive -Integrative, Unitary Transformative III. Discuss knowledge development in nursing (10 points) a. Carper’s Ways of Knowing b. Emancipatory Knowing c. Ways of unknowing d. Role of research e. Role of the socio political environment IV. Application/Synthesis for Advanced Practice (10 points)

Describe how the new advanced knowledge, in the course to date has informed and influenced your own perspective on nursing:

i. Philosophic a. What philosophy is most congruent with your own personal philosophy and why? ii. Paradigm of Nursing a. Discuss the congruence between your nursing philosophy and your nursing paradigm b. Describe ...

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Explain how theoretical models can be used to construct plans of care for individuals, families, and populations of various socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. In our multicultural society, providing quality health care for a person requires that the nurses understand how the patient’s socio-cultural background affects his health beliefs and behavior . Most nursing theorists like Leninger, Nightingale, Roy and Rogers have pushed the limits of providing health care by taking into consideration factors that influence a patient’s health and well-being. These include the environment, the situation they are facing and the communities they belong to. These nursing theories focus ...

Nursing has had challenges since the beginning. The challenges included lack of knowledge to treat diseases and injuries. As generations progressed, the environmental conditions have improved and provided effective and efficient conditions that provide good conditions for treatment (Miller, 2009). Other complexities that faced nursing practice in the past-included societal acceptance of nursing as a discipline, educational, regulatory disarray and gender discrimination. All these factors have created a complicate history for nursing but various people have contributed to this important profession of providing care. During the 19th century, Florence Nightingale because of her profound vision and religious convictions of the ...

Nursing: Class discussion.

A nurse’s duties are based on principles established centuries ago and thus are guided by a strict code of ethics. This limits the decisions available to a nurse as a health practitioner when in the line of duty and to some extent when even off duty as the Hippocratic Oath doesn’t specify that a nurse or any other medical practitioner must be in his or her line of duty so as to deliver the necessary responsibility. This has several implications on the decision options available to a nurse with regards to, or due to constraints imposed by, ethical and legal liability and ...

Philosophy of nursing denotes nurses’ thoughts and what they believe in, with respect to their profession, and this provides the basis for their activities (Watson, 2008). Philosophy of nurses embodies the ethical values that nurses subscribe to as basic and basis of their belief in theory. This concept stems for the works of ancient nursing theorists such as Florence Nightingale, as well as Virginia Anderson. According to Nightingale, nursing is a call from God. In line with this, the sick must be given quality civilized care irrespective their situation in life. Nightingale saw sanitations, fresh air, cleanliness, socialization and comfort ...

What is your worldview of nursing?

Nursing continues to evolve because of new developments in the world of technology. The nursing profession undergoes real revolution because there is rapid development in all the aspects. The increase in globalization has really influenced the health care industry and nursing profession forms the backbone of health care (Buttz & Rich, 2011). Nurses have a bigger role to play in the health of nations.

What assumptions inform your philosophical lens?

There are major assumptions that inform the philosophical lens in nursing. The underlying assumptions include the independence of the patient and the nurse. Some philosophies in nursing include serving the needs of individual and the society. Provision ...

Pledges are common in many professions. They are solemn declarations to adhere to specific guidelines, terms of services and to some extent allegiance to specific people in authority or God. The nursing profession has had its share of the same. The Nightingale Pledge is the pledge use by nurse upon graduation. It is named after Florence Nightingale in honor of her contribution in the nursing profession. She is credited as the founder of modern nursing and also the actual initial idea of pledging. The pledge was created in 1893 by modifying the Hippocratic Oath by Lystra Gretter and a the ...

Introduction

Florence nightingale environmental theory Florence nightingale, often considered as the mother of modern nursing formulated a theory of nursing known as the environmental theory. In this theory, nightingale compiled the tenets of nursing that she felt should be applied for the most effective nursing practice on patients. Her theory held that, a nurse has to utilize the natural environment in the restoration of the patient’s previous state of health. In nursing practice according to this theory, the nurse has to make sure that the patient enjoys the best conditions of nature in order for them to recover. The environment ...

“It is the surgeon who saves a person’s lifeit is the nurse who helps a person live” (Florence Nightingale). This famous nursing quote underscores the important role that nurses have played throughout the history of mankind. Florence Nightingale and many other nurses have come up with several nursing theories in a bid to better the profession. Through the evaluation of different theories; learners, practitioners and other interested stakeholders can understand the past and also predict the future of the nursing profession. In this paper, I will focus on two nursing theorists; Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) and University of Colorado’s Distinguished Professor ...

Development of Nursing Profession

Nursing is a dynamic career that has experienced a lot of changes in the past fifty years. However, the nursing career has been structured to paths leading to senior clinical responsibilities and management (Buckis, 2011). Recently, the demand for nurses has risen than any other point in time. It is projected that there will be a shortage of 260,000 nurses by the year 2025 in the United States (Roux and Halstead, 2009). This calls for the government and all other stakeholders in the health sector to provide motivation to students to undertake the career. The nursing professional is has become technologically ...

The Changing Role of Women in America: Thesis Statement

Thesis: Women have long been considered second class citizens (if considered citizens at all!) throughout the course of American history. Often dismissed from history books, I feel that it is important to recognize the contributions of women to the American nature. By carefully analyzing important events, I endeavor to draw out examples of how women have helped shape our nation. By looking at gender roles one can determine how these roles played a part in the American society and how they have changed. I propose that women did indeed provide instrumental support in the development of the American nation and ...

Introduction

Nurses are considered as very important members of a medical surgical or rehabilitation team. They literally take care of the patients, administer basic to slightly complex healthcare procedures in the absence of an attending physician, and perhaps their most appropriate job description is they make the patients’ stay at the hospital less troublesome and in fact, worthwhile. Nursing practice just like any other health profession has a rich and long history. When we say history, we are actually talking about the different transition of events that happened in the past which lead us to the present time. The objective of this ...

The Crimean war which apparently began over a trivial control of the Orthodox Christians of the holy cities of Jerusalem and Nazareth was actually the culmination of a long power struggle in Europe. The aggressive expansionism of Russia coupled with its pledge to rule over the Ottoman Empire in order to gain control of the route to Asia and the consequent British fear of losing its business trades to Asia and to check Russian expansionism resulted in eruption of the Crimean war. Ultimately, the Russians had to meekly surrender to the Allied forces of Britain, France, Turkey and a neutral attitude of ...

The field of mathematics has been home to many great minds – indeed, perhaps some of the greatest minds that the world has ever seen. Statistics is no exception to this. It is unfortunate, however, that due to deep-rooted cultural and socio-political biases, rarely have we seen a female mathematician, particularly before the beginning of the 20th century. This is a great tragedy, as, in other fields, women have made some of the greatest contributions imaginable. Consider where we would be now if it were not for Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, Betsy Ross, Amelia Earhart, Marie Curie or Rosalind Franklin! One notable ...

Abstract

Public health has been defined as ‘the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals" (Winslow, 1920). Precisely, credit ought to be given to Sir Dr. John Snow (1848), who has impacted the science through investigations leading to the development of assumptions pertaining to Contagion theory. Clarifications, regarding communicable diseases and their occurrences became institutionalized doctrines of the science

Nursing: Public Health Movement- Nineteenth Century to Present

Essentially, the challenges facing environmental safety, disease control and sustainable health for individuals and societies created urgency for investigations within the ...

Where did Nursing Begin (nursing from the dawn of time through 1800)

Nursing is a term used to refer to a profession that is concerned with the health care of individuals, families or communities so that they can either retain or recover the health or quality of life at its optimum state throughout the life of the individuals. This word nurse finds its origin from Latin word, nurtrire that has a meaning close to nourish. In the modern society, this profession has gained so much of accreditation and people can now hardly live without it. However, a backdrop of its history, approximately between 1500AD to 1800AD, reveals some dark spell of time for such a promising ...