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 and a science. It focuses on health promotion‚ professionalism‚ skills
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Many things do not pass the test of time‚ humans surely cannot live forever‚ but some of their accomplishments have become well known legacies for all. Like many Victorian women of the time‚ Florence Nightingale was a nineteenth century traveler‚ but unlike many of them‚ she was famously well known and talked about in the many circles of England and surrounding European countries. Of the nineteenth century women travelers‚ Nightingale is still very widely known and even celebrated today‚ mainly for
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October 1853‚ the Crimean War broke out due to the Russian expanding Danube region and wanting control of access to the religious sites of the Holy Lands. The Crimean War officially began in the Balkans‚ but was originally fought on the Crimean Peninsula and the Black Sea. The war was between the Russians‚ British‚ French and Ottoman Turkish‚ supported by the army of Sardinia-Piedmont. The Crimean War caused many changes within the nation that changed how things were. The Crimean War sustained many
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Do you agree with the view that the suffrage movement made ‘substantial progress’ during the first decade of the twentieth century? Source 13 is part of a speech made by Emmeline Pankhurst‚ who founded the WSPU‚ in 1908. It was delivered during her trial at Bow Street Magistrates Court in London; she had been arrested for obstruction caused during a suffragette demonstration. She was arrested on a number of occasions for using militancy. Her speech clearly shows that she felt there had been absolutely
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NIGHTINGALE’S ENVIRONMENTAL THEORY By Azeem Jan‚ Darlene Haddock‚ James Gibson‚ Jennifer Hall‚ Marisela Felix‚ and Melissa Dawley Grand Canyon University January 28‚ 2012 OVERVIEW OF NIGHTINGALE’S THEORY Florence Nightingale provided a framework for current nursing practice. Health is achieved when an individual makes appropriate and educated decisions. Illness is a negative reaction to a patient’s choices. Key elements of nursing=clean environment‚ fresh air and water‚ warmth‚ quite and
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Do you agree with the view that the Land League was successful in achieving its aims? The instance the Land League was established in 1879 by Michael Davitt‚ its determination and theories about what should happen in Ireland‚ had huge influence in British-Irish politics. Their aims‚ to begin with‚ were somewhat simple‚ redistribution of the land so that the Irish would once again be owners of ‘their own’ land along with their aim of what became known as the 3 F’s‚ free-sale‚ fixed tenancies and
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Essay Outline Topic: Assess the causes of the Crimean War Thesis: 1. Russia vs Ottoman Empire The war was brought upon by the balance of power in Europe. The fate of the Ottoman Empire began to be referred to by the name of “The Eastern Question”. After the Ottoman Empire began to grow weak following its defeat by Russia‚ Europe would see Russia looking for more places to expand around the Mediterranean. Because of Russia’s previous hold on the Holy Lands of Europe‚ the
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Florence Nightingale David Nikki McCain Metropolitan Community College Mr. Kmail Florence Nightingale David Florence Nightingale David was born on August 23rd‚ 1909 in Irvington‚ Leominster England. She was named after her parents’ friend‚ Florence Nightingale. David passed on July 18‚1993‚ in Kensington‚ California in the United States of America (McDonald‚ 2015). Florence began her academic life at the age of 5 but the First World War interrupted it. As such‚ her parents hired a tutor for private
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and state. But coverage of the protests‚ the angle the media especially news websites look at the issue‚ the meaning they give to the issue differs and sometime totally opposite from one another. While print media is struggling to survive in Europe and USA‚ India has a largest newspaper market next to China with 88.90 million copies of circulation every day. During the time of independence in 1947‚ India had only 3533 publications and among them 330 was daily newspapers and 3205 were periodicals
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. She was asked to go and nurse the British soldier and was appointed superintendent of the Female Nursing Establishment of the English General Hospitals in Turkey. She took a revolutionary step by being the first women to ever hold that position‚ and she was very proud and happy. Nightingale had such a dramatic influence on nursing when the Crimean War started. “For 18 months during an otherwise forgettable war‚ Nightingale supervised a group of nurses in a British military hospital.” (Hobbs)
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