- Historical Development of Nursing Timeline
The science of nursing has come a long way since the days of when the art of nursing was passed on to other nurses through education of skills and tasks. Through the development of nursing theories, the science of nursing has changed and grown. Nursing theories were developed to help standardize care and to...
- Nursing Theorist Grid
1. Theorist Selected: Florence Nightingale born on 5/12/1820, a writer, a philosopher, a theorist, a "reformer, a statistician, an administrator, a researcher" (Attewell, 1998), an educator, and a nurse leader.
2. Description of key points of the theory: Nightingale was one of the first theorist to connect...
- Lytton Strachey’s Excerpt on Florence Nightingale
Lytton Strachey's excerpt depicts the popular misconceptions and the actual reality of who Florence Nightingale was. Strachey's euphemism of calling Nightingale "the Lady with the Lamp" as opposed to the "agitations of her soul" portrays the idea that her reality was much more different than her false...
- Effective Approaches in Leadership and Management
The nursing shortage and high turnover rate in nursing impacts the economic life of every health care organization in America. The purpose of this paper is to define and discuss the approaches in leadership and management styles in relation to the nursing shortage and nurse turnover using theories,...
- What Is Nursing_
What is nursing?
Florence Nightingale once said, "You ask me why I do not write something… I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all be distilled into actions and into actions that bring results" (Woodham-Smith, 1951). I find this quote to be true because sometimes actions are more...
- Lack of Respect for Nurses
Lack of Respect for Nurses
According to a journal of Palliative Medicine "The basis of a professional relationship associates trust, respect, commitment , truthfulness, and compliance to the expertise of a fellow worker" (Paul Rousseau of Palliative Medicine, 2004, p.753). All of us need to respect each...
- Nursing Sensitive Indicators
According to the American Nurses Association, nursing-sensitive indicators "reflect the structure, process and outcomes of nursing care." ("Nursing Sensitive Indicators," 2015) Understanding the indicators is an important piece of nursing, not only to assist the patient, but the patients loved ones as well,...
- Professional Roles and Values
Being a regulatory agency, the Virginia Board of Nursing's role is to allow one to obtain a nursing license once all prerequisites are met, oversee nursing practice, revoke, suspend, or add disciplinary action to nurses, and govern all rules that apply to nursing within their respective state. The board of...
- The Educational Preparation of Bachelor Degree Versus Associate Degree in Nursing
The Educational Preparation of Bachelor Degree versus Associate Degree in Nursing Nursing has been regarded as the most trustworthy profession year after year in the United States (Laidman, 2012). Prior to the modern era of Nursing that began with Florence Nightingale, there was no specific profession of...
- Change Management in Nursing
Leadership is defined as influencing people to achieve a purpose or set of goals, but differentiating it from management causes confusion in many instances (Tappen, Weiss and Whitehead, 2004; Senior and Fleming, 2006; Robbins, Judge and Sanghi, 2009). Leaders can be managers but not all managers can be...