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    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 her reform and founding of modern nursing. Why was Nightingale so popular throughout her time and now in the present? It is hard to

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    l oDo you agree with the view that Mary Seacole‚ and not Florence Nightingale‚ was the real ‘Angel of Mercy’ in the Crimea? An Angel of Mercy refers to one who is caring‚ compassionate‚ and full of kindness‚ gives hope to others‚ love radiates from them‚ and love is given without an agenda of their own. A healer of soul and body. Also known as the grim reaper of life‚ as the angel of mercy is the last spirit that is seen on passing. As it is the angel to end the pain and suffering on

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    war began‚ Nightingale‚ recruited a team of 10 nurses‚ and took them to Turkey to assist in the soldiers care. When she arrived she was astonished by what she found‚ soldiers lay on bare floors with vermin running around them‚ and there was no clean water for them‚ Cholera and Typhus were rife. With her mathematical background‚ Nightingale noted that soldiers were 7 times more likely to die in a field hospital‚ than on the battle field (O’Connor J. and Robertson E. (online)). Nightingale started

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    Respectable nursing depends on noble nursing leaders. This paper will highlight Florence Nightingale nursing leadership and describe her leadership characteristics. It will further depict the democratic style Florence Nightingale utilized throughout her career. Florence Nightingale was not only a nurse‚ she was a researcher‚ educator‚ and theorist. Her contributions to nursing and society are numerous. Florence Nightingale has been referred to as the “mother of modern nursing” (Johnson & Webber‚ 2005)

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    | Course Project | Nightingale Home Health Services | | | 2/19/2011 | | HSM 430 February 15‚ 2011 Final research Paper-Week 8 Executive Summary Nightingale Home Health Care Services is a new home health care agency that will offer a unique combination of premier home health care and community-based social services to the Bryn Mawr area in Philadelphia. Our office will be located will be established in quality office space on Main Street in Bryn Mawr‚ Pennsylvania and

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    In “Florence Nightingale” Lytton Strachey uses diction‚ tone‚ and symbols to define his views on Florence Nightingale. He does this in order to show how heroes are more complex than just their accomplishments. In regards to diction‚ Strachey uses phrases that are comparing her actions to religious ideas. He refers to Florence as‚ “The saintly‚ self sacrificing woman‚” (Strachey 2). By comparing her to a saint he is showing how highly he admires her. Also‚ by comparing her to that of a saint he is

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    What was the short-term significance of Florence Nightingale in bringing about change in nursing practice in the 1860s. In the Dickens book “Martin Chuzzlewit” the character Mrs Gamp a nurse‚ was dirty‚ fat‚ and old and also a drunk‚ which was like most nurses of those days before Nightingale. One can say that because of this‚ nursing was not seen as a highly regarded profession. Source A supports the view of Mrs Gamp being a true portrayal of nurses in the 1800s. It is an article from the Telegraph

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    The Nightingale Roll of Honour Baytree Community Centre July 27th – 31st 2009 Workshop Leaders – Frances M Lynch‚ Mark Troop & Grace Cookey-Gam Music of the Day –an award for excellence in composing‚ performing or rehearsing music. Monday: Natalia Forchin 那塔雅‚ Ellie Brooks 伊莉 Portia Jewunde 波紋雅 Tersoo Agera 特梭 Tuesday: Insirah 伊撒兒& Namina 那米納Taylor Kamara‚ Kiah Banguwa 凱雅‚ Tersoo Agera 特梭‚ Russheena Rowe 瓦斯那‚ Portia Jewanda 波茄雅 Wednesday: Ellie Brooks伊莉‚ Chesney Kelliott-Campbell

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    Founders of Nursing There were quite a few women who molded nursing history. I will be writing about Clara Barton‚ Linda Richards‚ and Florence Nightingale. Clara Barton was known as the “Angel of the Battlefield”. Linda Richards was recognized as the first trained nurse. Florence Nightingale was seen as the woman who established modern nursing. Here are a few more facts about these women‚ and a brief explanation of how they influence nursing in today’s world. During the Civil War‚ Clara Barton cared

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    some examples of Historical Perspective the beginning of the 18th and 19th Century. Please expand. 1.Social reform began 2. Nursing as we know it began thanks to Florence Nightingale (the lady with the lamp) 3. Nightingale began the 1st formal school of nursing. [pic] We have all grown up with a pretty clear idea of what a hospital is‚ what a doctor is‚ what a nurse is‚ and so on. There is a fair degree of consensus

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