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Florence Nightingale and Mathematics, 2005.
An analysis of the contribution of Florence Nightingale to the field of mathematics.
1,333 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper examines how although Florence Nightingale is mainly remembered for her compassion and work in the field of nursing. Another of her achievements was in the field of statistics and mathematics. It looks at how she succeeded in augmenting a practical application of statistics to the profession of nursing and how her graphical and statistical representations of deaths in the Crimean conflict promoted the use of sanitary reforms, which were implemented throughout the nursing profession.
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"Furthermore, she also made important contributions in the field of epidemiology. This is the study of the demographics of disease processes, including the study of epidemics, which uses statistical procedures. For example, Nightingale "... made a statistical study of sanitation in Indian rural life. She invented a diagram known as the coxcomb or polar area chart to depict changing patient outcomes in the military field hospital she managed". (Campus Program) She had become an expert statistician and in 1858 was elected the first female member of the Statistical Society. She was also made a member of the American Statistical Association. The statistical measurement and innovations used during the Crimean War not only led to a reduction of deaths but also added to her reputation as both a statistician and nurse."
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Florence Nightingale, 2005.
A brief biographical account of the life and career of Florence Nightingale.
1,354 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 45.95
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This paper briefly provides background information on the life of Florence Nightingale and then, in further detail, describes not only Florence Nightingale's work as a nurse treating soldiers in army hospitals but her contributions to the field of nursing and healthcare as well. Specifically, the paper describes Florence Nightingale's efforts to promote proper hygiene and educate people that the lack of proper hygiene contributed to the spread of disease.
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"Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy on May 12, 1820, during her parents' extended honeymoon. Florence's father was a wealthy landowner, who was involved in social causes, such as the abolitionist movement. Florence's childhood was spent at Embley Park, a mansion in Hampshire, and her family's summer home at Lea Hurst. The Nightingales were extremely wealthy, and Florence was raised in luxury, and prepared for the role of wife. However, the Nightingales did not have a son, and Florence's father was indulgent and gave her an extensive education that was unavailable to many women of her time."
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Florence Nightingale's Contributions to Nursing, 2005.
This paper studies the contributions of Florence Nightingale to the nursing profession.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This article examines Florence Nightingale's contributions to the nursing profession. The writer discusses how she transformed the whole practice of nursing into a profession. The writer uses different sources to demonstrate that Florence Nightingale's achievements produced many contributions to nursing theory in addition to the nursing practice.
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"Gorrell states that Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, transformed the practice into a respectable profession and set the standards for clean and safe hospitals throughout the world. The purpose of this paper is to review the multiple accomplishments of Florence Nightingale and their contribution to the nursing profession. Clearly one of the ways in which Florence Nightingale advanced the profession of nursing was in her concern for hygiene. Gillian points out that part and parcel of ... "
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The Life of Florence Nightingale, 2006.
A review of the life and career of Florence Nightingale, the mother of nursing.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper discusses how Florence Nightingale was a complex woman, largely responsible for the state of nursing as we know it today. For all of her efforts, she was a product of her upbringing. She had amazing success with changing the hospital conditions in Crimea and establishing the nursing profession as a respectable one before becoming a recluse upon her return to England. This paper highlights some of the events of Florence Nightingale's life."
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"Florence Nightingale was born to an upper middle class family, the daughter of two disillusioned and liberal Unitarians. Florence's mother was the daughter of an abolitionist who sat in the House of Commons. Her father was a wealthy "country gentleman" who had once fought for Parliamentary reform (Bostridge 4)."
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19th Century's Florence Nightingale, 2006.
A review of Florence Nightingale's environment model of nursing and it's relevance today.
901 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 32.95
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This paper demonstrates how Florence Nightingale's environmental model of nursing developed in the mid 1900s, is still valid today. The paper discusses how this theory of manipulating the patient's environment to its most beneficial degree to allow the patient's body to heal, is still valuable for hospital environments today.
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Introduction: Florence Nightingale's Environmental Model
Theoretical Framework Applied to a Clinical Situation
Conclusion
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"Nightingale would stress that a nurse must first attempt to remedy this situation by at least ensuring that the meal was properly presented and served at the correct temperature. A nurse could then also go to the hospital nutritionist and ask to give Tobias and her family advice on making a culturally as well as nutritionally appropriate diet. Variety and arising interest in the food is also critical for the patient, to restate Nightingale's canon regarding appropriate diet. All of the treatment to cure ailments caused by poor nutrition will do little good if the patient returns to his or her old ways after the hospital. The nurse must use the tools at her disposal to facilitate the transmission of good-tasting, culturally correct food that is served at the proper temperature. When a patient is ready to eat so the patient can feel better faster, and also so that healthy eating gains in positive associations and does not seem so overwhelming to a patient like Tobias. "
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Florence Nightingale, 2004.
An analysis of the theories developed by Florence Nightingale and their impact on the nursing profession.
795 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 28.95
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This paper provides an overview of Florence Nightingale and her nursing theories, followed by an assessment of their impact on the nursing profession today. The paper illustrates that Florence Nightingale's efforts on the field of battle during the Crimean War earned her the respect and funds she needed to pursue her goal of providing the nurses with formal professional training in their duties by qualified practitioners. The paper contends that her emphasis on providing compassionate medical services in as clean an environment as possible contributed to saving countless lives both during her lifetime and thereafter.
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"According to one of her many biographers, Florence Nightingale born in 1820 and died in 1910. During the Crimean War (1854-56), Nightingale was responsible for nursing in the military hospitals at Scutari, Turkey, where she struggled to meet the enormous challenges represented by overcrowded conditions, inadequate sanitation, and a lack of basic medical necessities (Underwood, 2005). The graphic at Appendix A helps to highlight the abysmal conditions Nightingale found on her arrival there. Based on her experiences on the field of battle, Nightingale recognized the need for a professional cadre of nurses. Armed with ?45,000 from the Nightingale Fund (contributed by the public in recognition of her Crimean work), she established the first school for nurses in the world, the Nightingale School for Nurses at St. Thomas's Hospital in London in 1860. Nightingale also played a key role in developing training programs for midwives and for nurses in workhouse infirmaries, and is credited with important reforms in workhouses (Underwood, 2005)."
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Florence Nightingale, 2007.
This paper discusses the nursing theories of Florence Nightingale.
1,916 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 61.95
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The paper provides a brief biographical history of Florence Nightingale. The paper summarizes her main beliefs as a nurse and a social reformer and reviews her ideas about the four elements of the nursing meta-paradigm; person, health, environment and nursing. The paper provides examples of how her ideas can be applied to actual clinical nursing practice in the modern world.
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Brief Biography of Nightingale
Nightingale's Main Nursing Theory
Nightingale's Application of the Nursing Meta-paradigm
Conclusions/Recommendations
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"Florence Nightingale was born May, 12 1820 in Florence Italy, while her parents were on an extended tour of Europe. Her parents and their extended family were well educated and affluent, participating in many of the Victorian social structures of their time in the England, where they maintained two residences, one in Derbyshire and one in Hampshire. Florence her parents and her older sister Parthenope were the base of the immediate family, yet the extended family of the group was large and for the most part influential in their own right. (Pfettscher, Marriner Tomey, Raile Alligood, 2006, p. 71)"
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Florence Nightingale's Nursing Model, 2001.
A discussion on Florence Nightingale's nursing model and its positive influence on the nursing profession and hospitals.
1,740 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 10 sources, $ 56.95
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This paper discusses Florence Nightingale's contribution to nursing field. Nightingale developed a new modern nursing model that emphasized on improving sanitation and hospital conditions as well as developing research on certain diseases. Nonetheless, this nursing model focused on the patient's needs.
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"It was Florence Nightingale who established professional nurses' training and who stands out as the founder of the modern profession. She was also adept politically and could mobilize public opinion - she was possibly the first spin-nurse. Florence Nightingale has for years been recognized as the founder of modern nursing. The strength of Nightingales model is that it focuses on the patient. The quality of care such focus can bring only serves to improve the quality of the patient ?s life and does not allow for the nurse to be lost in the management and politics that are found in hospitals today. It allows the nurse to understand where his or her first duty lies and thus makes health care more compassionate."
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Florence Nightingale, 2002.
This paper highlights Florence Nightingale's life not only as a nurse but also as a mathematician.
555 words (approx. 2.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 19.95
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This paper discusses Florence Nightingale?s work as a statistician upon which the reform of the sanitary conditions in military field hospitals was based. The author points out that Nightingale was the first woman to be a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, the first woman to receive the Order of Merit and author of the first nursing textbook.
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"In 1840, Florence begged her parents to let her study mathematics instead of, ?worsted work and practicing quadrilles.? Her mother did not agree with this idea. Although Mr. Nightingale loved mathematics and had passed this love along to his daughter, he urged her to study subjects more appropriate for a woman. After a long battle with her parents, they finally gave her permission to be tutored in mathematics. This included Sylvester, who developed the theory of invariants with Cayley. She was said to be his most distinguished pupil."
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Florence Nightingale, 2002.
Examines how Florence Nightingale changed the face of traditional nursing practises.
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This paper summarizes some of the important philosophical and medical contributions that Florence Nightingale made to the profession of nursing.
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Florence Nightingale's Approach To Nursing, 2004.
A discussion of the nursing theory of Florence Nightingale.
2,034 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 71.95
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This paper discusses Florence Nightingale's theory of nursing - known as "Virtue Theory" and its applications in a hypothetical patient case in the modern nursing care arena.
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"Florence Nightingale was noted for her adherence to what is now
called Virtue Theory within the field of nursing care. Virtue theory holds that the nursing profession carries with it certain moral obligations as it has a moral influence upon patients and other healthcare workers. The ethical application of virtue theory to the practicalities of nursing characterised Nightingale's contribution to the medical profession .Although best remembered as the Crimean War's Lady of the Lamp, Florence Nightingale's influence upon nursing was far...
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Florence Nightingale, 2002.
A biography of Florence Nightingale who laid the foundations of modern nursing.
1,510 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 49.95
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This paper details the state of nursing up until the mid nineteenth century and gives a history of the life of Florence Nightingale. The paper explains her contribution to the development of nursing theory and its application to nursing practice. It shows how she raised nursing to the level of a medical profession with high standards of education and important responsibilities. The paper also explains her promotion of public health care systems.
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"Nurses, until the mid nineteenth century, were usually volunteers (often men and women belonging to various religious orders) with little or no training. As late as the end of the 18th century nursing was considered an unsuitable occupation for ?proper? young women, partially due to the fact that hospitals in those days were dirty and unhygienic places where patients invariably died. As a result, nursing care was commonly provided by persons who had been imprisoned for drunkenness or who could not find work elsewhere."
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Florence Nightingale: Founder of Nursing, 2001.
An overview of the life and influence of this key 19th century figure.
1,750 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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This paper provides a history of the life of Florence Nightingale and all that she did to advance nursing. The paper discusses her role in changing the nursing profession through her progressive ideas and theories on sanitation. It also explores her political activity regarding the rights of dismissed soldiers.
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"Nightingale was a big advocate for the prevention of infection. She believed that infection arose from dirty, poorly ventilated rooms. From her selected writings on rural hygiene, we are able to understand Nightingale?s standings on cleanliness. This belief led to cleaner, healthier living and working environments. She firmly believed that health improved with proper hygiene, fresh air, clean bodies, clean water, proper drainage, and plenty of light (Pulliam). She continued to advocate for improved health standards by publishing 200 books, reports, and pamphlets (Florence Nightingale Story)."
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Nightingale, 2007.
An analysis of the philosophy of Florence Nightingale as discussed by Sam Porter in "Nightingale's Realist Philosophy of Science."
2,524 words (approx. 10.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 76.95
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This paper discusses the article "Nightingale's Realist Philosophy of Science," by Sam Porter, which discusses the philosophy of the science of Florence Nightingale, in terms of her adherence to positivism and scientism, determinism, naturalism and epistemological absolutism. The paper examines Porter's analysis of Nightingale's philosophy and discusses each issue in relation to modern nursing practice.
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"Nightingale's firm belief in statistical analysis as a method of determining causation, her insistence on underlying causes of illness and health, and a firm belief in scientific knowledge as a basis for health and wellness, are clearly guidelines in modern medicine. Further, her instance that sociology plays an important role in health care has been vastly influential in modern nursing. Many in health care have moved beyond simply attempting to medicate the ill, and have begun to focus on underlying causes of health related issues, and on how to treat the entire individual. As one scholar noted, "Observation, not merely chemistry, must decide the care for the sick...Nightingale showed us the need for sympathetic treatment of each patient as a human being, with not only a body, but a mind, and a heart." (Allison Bashford, 2000, pg. 137)."
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