Florence Nightingale Research Paper
Grand Canyon University: NRS-427V-0103
Concepts in Community and Public Health
06/15/2014
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 in nursing and saved and improved many lives. Epidemiologic concepts are used to understand and explain how and why health and illness occur as they do in human populations. Florence Nightingale pioneered those statistics needed in epidemiology to learn over the human …show more content…
Secondary bacterial infections of the lesions such as Staph or Strep, since these bugs are commonly everywhere to begin with, are the most common cause for a hospitalization. A secondary infection may cause serious illness and lead to death if not treated. Pneumonia is usually viral, but can be bacterial when it follows varicella. “Rare complications of varicella include aseptic meningitis, transverse myelitis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, thrombocytopenia, hemorrhagic varicella, pupura fulminans, glomerulonephritis, myocarditis, arthritis, orchitis, uveitis, iritis, and hepatitis.” (CDC, May, 2012). Immunocompromised patients are at a higher risk for serious complications and sometimes death. The CDC states that since 1996, the number of hospitalizations and deaths from varicella has declined more than 90%. Persistence of low income and rural urban communities in the Midwest regions of the US, continue to be a challenge for nurses and healthcare workers in bringing them up to date with immunizations and doctor
Concepts in Community and Public Health
06/15/2014
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 in nursing and saved and improved many lives. Epidemiologic concepts are used to understand and explain how and why health and illness occur as they do in human populations. Florence Nightingale pioneered those statistics needed in epidemiology to learn over the human …show more content…
Secondary bacterial infections of the lesions such as Staph or Strep, since these bugs are commonly everywhere to begin with, are the most common cause for a hospitalization. A secondary infection may cause serious illness and lead to death if not treated. Pneumonia is usually viral, but can be bacterial when it follows varicella. “Rare complications of varicella include aseptic meningitis, transverse myelitis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, thrombocytopenia, hemorrhagic varicella, pupura fulminans, glomerulonephritis, myocarditis, arthritis, orchitis, uveitis, iritis, and hepatitis.” (CDC, May, 2012). Immunocompromised patients are at a higher risk for serious complications and sometimes death. The CDC states that since 1996, the number of hospitalizations and deaths from varicella has declined more than 90%. Persistence of low income and rural urban communities in the Midwest regions of the US, continue to be a challenge for nurses and healthcare workers in bringing them up to date with immunizations and doctor