Florence Nightingale Professional Nurse and Theorist Florence Nightingale is known as the founder of modern nursing. She was born in 1820 in a wealthy family. At the young age of twenty-four‚ she was touched by God to help the sick and less fortunate. According to Nightingale the environment‚ the patient lives in can have a major impact on their health. She created a model which focuses on the following components that have been critical to nursing: Patient Health of houses‚ ventilation‚ and Warming
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Executive Summary: Streamline the Nursing Admission Process Stephanie Bakker‚ RN Grand Canyon University: NRS-451V Billie Gabbard‚ Instructor January 27‚ 2013 Executive Summary: Streamline the Nursing Admission Process The health care industry continues to be challenged by daily patient turnover due to the number of admissions‚ transfers‚ and discharges (Spader‚ 2008). The increase in number of admissions‚ in turn‚ puts a high demand on nurses in keeping up with the pace resulting in
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who helped this change take place was Florence Nightingale. Nightingale is considered as a pioneer in the nursing profession. She has contributed a lot in the field of nursing and her works are considered as assets‚ and will be remembered for many years. Florence Nightingale was born in 1820 in Florence‚ Italy‚ and was named after her birthplace. Nightingale died in 1910. She was a brilliant mathematician‚ and used statistics in achieving her reforms. Florence was a well-educated woman in a number
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Florence Nightingale Environment Theory of Nursing. Major concepts essential to the Theory. Patient care theory‚ environmentally oriented‚ where the patient environment should be altered to allow nature to act on the patient. (Alligood‚ 2010). Nurses are to use common sense‚ observation and initiative to allow nature to heal the patient. The use of Nightingales thirteen canons: Ventilation‚ Warmth Light Cleanliness of rooms Health of houses Noise Bed and bedding Variety Chattering of hopes and
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Florence nightingale who was established for the training nurses during a public meeting. She was considered pioneer in the medical tourism as well. For most of her life spent she was promoting and organising the nursing profession. Florence also wrote everyday sanitary knowledge or the knowledge of nursing or that it can recover from disease it takes a higher place. Though Florence sometimes said to have denied the theory of infection for her entire life the biography disagrees. But Nightingale
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Understanding Issues Facing Health Care Professionals Nurses play an extremely vital role in the world of healthcare and make up the backbone of the health care system. Florence Nightingale is noted as one of the first trained nurses. She trained at the first organized school of nursing‚ founded in Kaiserworth‚ Germany in 1846. Nursing has evolved exponentially since then. Technology changed the face of medicine and increased the workload for nurses. Currently‚ the United States is experiencing
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Negotiation (Danielsen‚ Potenza‚ & Onieal‚ 2016). Nurse Practitioner‚ NP have a lot they have to do for their patient population‚ and now a part of their responsibilities is to negotiate their contract renewal. This is new for me I never had to negotiate my RN contract. I worked in nursing home and hospital and that was never a part of my duties. I can see where negotiating a professional contract can be challenging for the novice NP (Danielsen‚ Potenza‚ & Onieal‚ 2016). On the other hand‚ negotiation
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Being a mental health nurse there are many issues you have to deal with on a daily basis. The author discusses concerns towards the lack of sustainability and commitment towards the Mental Health nurses in the health care system. Sustainability and Commitment are both valuable words that the author uses to describe the Health care nurses in our system. Sustainability and Commitment both play a huge role towards the patients that are involved in the Mental Health system. Similar to many other nurses
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Susan Mills is the supervisor of nurses in the pediatrics section of a 700-bed hospital in a metropolitan area. She has been in this position for six months‚ having moved from a similar position in a much smaller rural hospital. The first problem is task performance. Susan can’t get the nurses to perform tasks that need to be done. She asked a nurse to help her clean up the nurses’ station and the nurse responded‚ that’s the janitor’s job. The second problem is that the nurses don’t have that much
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The course Diversity‚ Oppression & Change and Professor Toner has given me a vast knowledge of the subject matter. Listed below are some of the assignments that were most significant to me. The video‚ Big Mama‚ viewing this video reminded me of my own personal experience‚ while caring for my daughter Inevitably‚ there was a concern regarding my daughter’s mental state‚ wherein there was discussion as to whether she should be admitted to the hospital for professional help. In addition‚ to professional
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