In 1858, Louis Pasteur identified germs, proving that diseases did not 'spontaneously' arise as nightingale thought (Atwell, 1998). However, it was Nightingale that began work as to the conditions that promoted the growth of germs, but she would not know this for many years.
The Crimean War: Putting Theory Into Practice

When the Crimean War broke out, she began work at once in a British hospital. Her emphasis was placed on maintaining proper hygiene and the importance of the nurse's role in managing the environment. Nightingale tied her religious beliefs to theory about the causes of disease, distinguishing her from other disease theorists of the time. She believed that god create miasmatic disease so that man should learn its causes through observation. Man was then supposed to prevent its reoccurrence through management of their environment (Atwell, 1998).

She believed that nurses had a special responsibility in this process and thus, a chance….

In the Crimean War, she arranged for the physical set-up of the patients' beds, the discarding of the infested and soiled linens and the ensuring of good and maintained ventilation.
After the War, she advocated for social reforms, one of which was the review of the British Poor Laws. The recall of this Law initiated its amendment into the Hardy's Bill on 1867. This bill looked into the state of workhouses and infirmaries that made improvements and administration changes imperative.

She also pushed for the idea of uplifting the poor through his environment. She pressed that the poor will not feel their shortages if their surroundings are clean. She explained that illnesses will be prevented by good sanitary practices.

Florence Nightingale's Nursing Philosophy on Health

Florence believed that addressing a person's health is a critical part of the nursing practice. During the Crimean War, she used mortality rate to address the fact that….

Nursing Today
VI. Conclusion

A. The Call to Vocation

B. The Influences: Before and After

C. Nursing, Feminism, ervice, and the Male Ego

Reference List

Bloy, M. (2010). Florence Nightingale. The Victorian Web. Retrieved from http://www.victorianweb.org/history/crimea/florrie.html This site gives a good history of Nightingale, her service, and the impact she had on nursing.

Collected Works of Florence Nightingale. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Retrieved from http://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/eries/CWFN.shtml A great source of information for all the written works of Nightingale. You can see the person for who she was in her own words. A wealth of information.

The Florence Nightingale Legacy. (2011). Florence Nightingale International

Foundation. Retrieved from http://www.fnif.org/nightingale.htm Another site devoted to the cause of Nightingale. Deals mainly with her influence on modern day nursing.

Hellman, L. (1966). Dashiell Hammett: A memoir. The New York Review of Books.

Retrieved from http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1965/nov/25/dashiell-hammett-a-memoir/?page=1 Hammett's mistress gives a unique view of the hard-boiled crime fiction writer who met his wife while in a war time….

ut Florence Nightingale was not intimidated by the attitude of the military officers and she decided to fight with all weapons: she contacted the Times and reported the situation in army hospitals, thus forcing the ritish Army to reorganize their hospitals. Her contribution to the military hospitals paid off when, by improving the quality of sanitation, the number of dead patients was reduced considerably.

Florence Nightingale was a strong supporter of women's rights, believing that women should be able to pursuit carriers. Although a strong supporter of health improvement policies, "Nightingale preferred working behind the scenes to get laws changed and disapproved of women making speeches in public" (Florence Nightingale). Although she was a dedicated nurse and although she was confronted with many prejudices in her work, Florence Nightingale was not a feminist and in fact she was very much adapted to the time and society she was living in. Invited….

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Florence Nightingale and Environment Theory

According to most nursing historians, Florence Nightingale is the leading figure in the development of modern nursing. As an early innovator in the field, Nightingale would pioneer many of the ideologies and approach which are still in circulation today. In particular, nursing professionals in her wake would coin the term Environment Theory in order to describe the mode of care that would be her contribution to modern medicine. As the discussion hereafter denotes, this theoretical model would be driven by Nightingale's view that health and treatment outcomes are directly related to the context and conditions within which a patient received care.

Description of Environment Theory:

This is underscored by a basic conceptualization of the Environment Theory. The text by Tomey & Alligood (2005) provides a useful preliminary understanding of this mode of treatment, specifying that during the 19th century that served as a backdrop to Nightingale's work, she….

Florence Nightingale -- Nursing Theorist
The pioneering healthcare services that Florence Nightingale performed during 1854 Crimean ar in Europe is today recognized as the beginning of the organized and sanitary field of nursing. This paper follows the career of Nightingale and recognizes her contribution to the theory of nursing care -- and the development of nursing training -- for the ill and the injured.

The Progression of Florence Nightingale's Career

From Financial Comfort to Rebellion

Born into a wealthy family with parents that expected her to do the things young ladies did in the 19th century -- to occupy herself with "embroidery, playing the piano and painting" -- Nightingale nonetheless resisted those callings and carved out her own career. Instead of falling into the comfort of what rich people did in that era in Europe, Nightingale resisted and rebelled. From the time she could think and dream about what her life should be Nightingale….

Nurses should show the patients pictures and entertain them this way. Care, to Nightingale, means thinking of the patient's needs and desires for things to do and to be entertained.
Taking Food: The nurse must supply a patient's every need, including the food that brings recovery to the body. She is in favor of hot tea and something to eat every three hours. But she advises never to leave food by the patient and to not let the patient see others' food. Eating is to be done to the exclusion of business talk or things that might discourage digestion.

What Food: Hearty food, of course, should be given to the patient: meat, eggs, tea, milk, butter, bread and jelly. One should not give a patient cocoa.

Bed and Bedding: If the bedding is not correct, the patient will be feverish. Bedding should be cleaned often, airing the dirty sheets, one should use….

Florence Nightingale
For most people, the name Florence Nightingale conjures up images of a gentle Victorian woman tending to wounded soldiers during the Crimean War. The Englishwoman's name has since become synonymous with the ideals of the nursing profession. To me, however, Florence is also a symbol of integrity, determination and courage.

Florence's achievements are even more impressive considering the social conditions prevailing in 19th century England. This was, after all, a time when women did not yet have the right to vote. Women during this era were expected to get married, have children and most important, to stay at home.

Florence, in fact, was luckier than most of her female peers. She came from a fairly well to do English family that could pay servants in order to shield their daughters from manual labor.

Though she was not expected to work, the Nightingales had high expectations for their daughter. They wanted the young….

Nightingale believed that people derived meaning from their various life experiences and the extent to which their lives bring meaning to them has a direct baring on the health condition of their bodies.
Her theory of learning was an exercise in logic: "Observation tells how the patient is; reflection tells what is to be done; training tells how it is to be done. Training and experience are, of course, necessary to teach us, too, how to observe, what to observe; how to think, what to think" (Attewell quoting Nightingale's 1882 narrative on her theory of learning) (8).

How has the theorist influenced my nursing practice and philosophy? hat stands out for me is Nightingale's leadership qualities. She was brilliant in her understanding of health needs, but moreover, she was tactful and when in 1854 she got involved in helping the wounded from the Crimean ar, was able to change the attitudes….

NURSING Nursing: Florences Nightingales Legacy of Caring and Its ApplicationsAbstractIt is imperative to look into case examples for further elucidation to understand the relationship between theory, research, and evidence-based practice. Florence Nightingale contributed to healthcare and nursing with her clear philosophy about hygiene and cleanliness in the environment. For maximum health outcomes, the aspects of mind, body, and spirit must be maintained with holistic nursing care with targeted needs of five fundamental elements of her environmental theory. This paper aims to explain a scenario where the application of Nightingales environmental theory could be best understood.Nursing: Florences Nightingales Legacy of Caring and Its ApplicationsCare combined with scientific knowledge has its significant benefits anchored in Florences Nightingale Legacy of Caring principles. The environmental theory of Florence constituted of five elements: fresh air, clean water, proficient draining, cleanliness and hygiene, and direct sunlight (Gilber, 2020, p. 627). This paper aims to explain a….

Nursing Practice through Environmental Control April 22, 2013 Name RT Final Paper NUR 505-01
Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory is a patient care theory designed to control environmental factors that allow nature to act in the healing processes to promote better health outcomes. The Environmental Theory argues that nature alone cures, but when aspects of the environment are out of balance, the patient must use energy (Florence Nightingale: Environmental Theory, 2013). Stresses drain energy needed for healing that makes it difficult for nature to act. Nurses can meet a patient's needs through control of environmental factors.

The basis of the theory is an inter-relationship between a healthful environment and nursing practice. The purpose of the theory is to teach nurses to use environmental factors in ways that allow nature to act to enable the healing processes to work in a natural way and to create sanitary conditions for patients to receive care. It….

According to Peters, "We can bracket the impact of this style of 'being with' as 'placebo response', but the term tends to confuse because it obscures a valuable and potentially transformative reorientation of the practitioner -- client axis; the action of the placebo response is triggered by the loving, trusting presence of another in the therapeutic relationship" (p. 173).
Today, women represent about half of all health administrators and almost half of all medical students, and the medical establishment is no longer overwhelmingly male. According to Satel (2000), "Nurses can now train for jobs with considerable clinical responsibility, like advanced practice nursing, with a salary range of $55,000 to 75,000 per year, depending on experience and location. An advanced practice nurse can prescribe many types of medications and order and interpret laboratory tests" (p. 88). Further, nurse midwives deliver babies and nurses in neonatal, coronary and surgical intensive-care units are….

Nursing and the Calling of Katie Makanya:
The longing for the lost pastoral and the longing for change

Florence Nightingale's seminal text Notes on Nursing was written after the author's experiences nursing during the Crimean ar, and was part of her efforts to establish nursing as a unique profession of respect and dignity. During her wartime service, Nightingale had seen the horrific consequences of modern, industrialized warfare. Thus her perspective of the dangers and unhealthiness of city life were inevitably colored by her witnessing of the consequences. "The most frequent and fatal cause of all is sleeping, for even a few hours, much more for weeks and months, in foul air, a condition which, more than any other condition, disturbs the respiratory process, and tends to produce 'accidental' death in disease'" (Nightingale, Conclusion). For Nightingale, the unwholesome nature of city life was literally poisonous.

Nightingale had witnessed the shift to urban life….

However, their medical training in no way prepares doctors for what nurses provide to patients. Nurses are called to their profession because of an innate desire to nurture and care for others. In contrast, doctors might be able to care but are not required to. Their job centers on effective praxis rooted in science. A nurse's job demands a caring attitude and an effective means to deliver the best quality of care.
Florence Nightingale knew that nurses would for a long time be viewed as subordinate to doctors, which is why she proposed a new vision of the profession. Nurses often do provide support services to doctors: hence, the assumption that doctors are able to teach nurses. Nightingale understood the fallacy of that assumption and suggested instead that nursing be cultivated as a singular, unparalleled profession. The nuances of nursing have become, since Nightingale's time, more widely renowned and appreciated….

born in Florence, Italy on May 12, 1820, and she died in on August 13, 1910.
Probably her biggest influence was her father, William, who urged her to get an education and find a career she enjoyed at a time when most women were not educated and did not have careers. However, he did not approve of her career choice, and that was a great disappointment to her. Her mathematics tutor, James Sylvester, was also an influence in her early life, because she found that she enjoyed mathematics and was good at it. She became known for her career as a nurse, but was also an excellent statistician who received awards for her calculations about sickness and death. She fought very hard to clean up unsanitary conditions in hospitals where she worked, and she was one of the first people to recognize that unsanitary conditions could lead to illness and….

What is the history of nursing in Ghana?

Many articles that explore the history of nursing are very focused on the evolution and history of nursing in the Western world, which leads people to mistakenly conclude that nursing evolved in the West and then was transported to other parts of the world, including Ghana.  On the contrary, Ghana has a rich tradition of nurses as healthcare practitioners and the profession evolved in Ghana alongside developments in other parts of the world. The history of nursing in Ghana may not contain any figures as....

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