In this guide for nursing theories, we aim to help you understand what comprises a nursing theory and its importance, purpose, history, types or classifications, and give you an overview through summaries of selected nursing theories.
Get to know the concepts behind Florence Nightingale’s Environmental Theory in this study guide about nursing theories. Learn about Nightingale’s biography, her career, her works that shaped nursing. Next part is an in-depth discussion about her Environmental Theory, its metaparadigm, major and subconcepts, including its application to nursing practice.
Here are some of the greatest nursing quotes written by famous historical figures and various writers.
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Ethel Gordon Fenwick was the pioneer of the movement for professional registration for nurses.
Two nurses share their experiences on what was it like being a nurse during the 1900’s.
In seven pain-wrecked days, yellow fever killed Clara Louise and it was her own doing.
Nursing has come a very, very long way in the past century. However, some of the challenges highlighted by nurse leaders in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s, still face the profession a century later even though their exact nature might be somewhat different.
Just how much do we know about Nurses Week? We dug down our history books and found these six intriguing and interesting facts about nurses week you probably didn’t know.
The Nightingale Pledge is a modified version of the Hippocratic Oath created by Lystra Gretter and a Committee for the Farrand Training School for Nurses in Detroit, Michigan in 1893.