Abstract As a young woman‚ Nightingale often accompanied her mother when she visited the sick. This inspired her to want to be a nurse‚ and against her parents’ wishes she entered a nurses’ training program. During the Crimean war she was asked by a family friend to come and care for the British soldiers at the army hospital. While there she witnessed filth‚ vermin‚ and death. Upon seeing the unsanitary conditions and the health risk to the soldiers she began her crusade to establish an environment
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The person I chose whose theory best fits me is Virginia Henderson. She believed that health is basic to human functioning‚ and an individual’s ability to function independently depends on health. She categorized nursing into 14 different components which are as listed: breath normally eliminate body waste maintain desirable posture sleep and rest select suitable clothes maintain body temperature keep the body clean and groomed avoid dangers in the environment
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Area Diagrams of Florence Nightingale If you read the article on Florence Nightingale in “The Children’s Book of Famous Lives”1 you will not learn that she had to battle with her parents to be allowed to study Mathematics. If you read the Ladybird book “Florence Nightingale”2 you will not discover that she was the first woman to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. In looking around for an area of research I was intrigued to discover that Florence Nightingale‚ who I always thought
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name‚ Florence Nightingale my ears wander around interested. She became one of the people I now idolize. Her passion for nursing was beyond belief because when she approached her parents and told them about her nursing ambition‚ they were not pleased but on 1844 she pursued her first goal and enrolled as a nursing student despite the displease of her parents and how becoming a nurse itself was such a low position for women; she believed that nursing was her calling… Florence Nightingale was known
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Florence Nightingale: The Founder of Modern Nursing Abstract Florence Nightingale believed that the nursing profession was “God’s calling” for her. Regardless‚ of the reputation that nurses had. Hospitals were dirty‚ smelly‚ overcrowded places that were full of diseases. Her focus was on the patients ’ health. She realized that once the patients were clean and genuinely cared for‚ their health improved. She made sure that the hospitals were clean. In which helped diseases from spreading
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Theory Evaluation Exemplar Environmental Theory of Florence Nightingale Theory Description Scope of theory:Grand Theory Purpose of the theory:“everyday sanitary knowledge‚ or the knowledge of nursing‚ or in other words‚ of how to put the constitution in such a state as that it will have no disease‚ or that it can recover from disease.” * Main focus was the control of the environment of individuals and families‚ both healthy and ill. * Because it explains the totality of the behavior.
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Lady of Nursing: Virginia Henderson Jessica Menice University of Massachusetts Amherst Author Note Jessica Menice‚ School of Nursing‚ University of Massachusetts Amherst Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Jessica Menice‚ School of Nursing‚ University of Massachusetts‚ Amherst‚ Ma 01003. E-mail: Jmenice@student.umass.edu Abstract Virginia Henderson has made an everlasting imprint on society. With her various degrees and teaching settings‚ Virginia was a very knowledgeable
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world… “I stand at the altar of the murdered men and while I live I shall fight their cause.” These words‚ spoken by Florence Nightingale‚ very neatly sum up her life`s ambitions. She was born on May 12‚ 1820‚ into a family of “new money” which was trying to fit in with Victorian society‚ where working was considered undignified and women were supposed to be frail. Florence went against these rules and went on to seek a career in nursing‚ despite her family’s disapproval. Up to that time nurses
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Florence Nightingale was born on May 12‚ 1820 in Florence‚ Italy. She came from a wealthy family. As a child she had a vivid imagination‚ was considered a dreamer and often dreamed of helping others. Nightingale was well educated‚ a benefit of her family’s wealth and her fathers belief in education‚ even for women. She studied all of the basic subjects‚ such as history‚ math‚ philosophy‚ science‚ music and art. She also learned five different languages. At a very young age she discovered
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scholarly paper that will discuss Florence Nightingale environmental model. It will discuss application of her theory in nursing environment such as Alzheimer’s unit. Contributions to the medical field‚ and emphasize key points of her theory of nursing. The paper will discuss and compare two other theorists such as Dorothea Orem and Dorothy Johnson by emphasizing the importance of using Nightingales theory in Alzheimer’s unit setting. Keywords: Florence Nightingale‚ Dorothea Orem‚ Dorothy Johnson
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