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The knowledge of the foundation and history of nursing canprovide us a context in which to understand current nursing care because itgives us a broad idea of where and who our profession began with. Nursing hasbeen a part of communities for a long time whether it was taking care of one’sneighbor or bandaging a soldier’s wounds. Florence Nightengale used her basicnursing skills and knowledge to involve a push for more sanitary conditions forsoldier’s healthcare in the British military. Her work was noticed becausefamilies and soldiers could see that what she was doing was actually working,causing less unnecessary deaths. This is how nursing was put on the map and wasrespected by the community. Florence used data and numbers and statistics tosave lives. (Hood, L. J., & Leddy, S. K. ,2006).

If we do not have a solid knowledge and understanding of theroots of nursing we can do our job on a day to day basis, however if the timecame to make a change and improvements for our patients we may not have theskills to do it. Nursing theories allow us to continue to direct our nursingcare and keep a direction in which we want our careers to go. We can dig deepinto our nursing practice and find out what it will take to make a change. Wecan grow as nurses by referring back to original thoughts and ideas of thenursing theories and try to understand what nursing means to us. (Hood, L. J.,& Leddy, S. K. ,2006).

Three trends I see in nursing practice from "NursingTimeline of Historical Events" is caring for those who cannot care forthemselves, taking care of the environment to benefit the individual andeducation . Several of the very first names in nursing, including St. VincentDe Paul focused their work specifically on the poor and dying. These people arethose who need us the most, they are unable to take care of themselves and needextra attention. This has influenced my day to day nursing care because I seepeople at their most vulnerable and I have to remember these people are scaredand it is in my hands to not only care for them as a nurse but also offeremotional support. The sanitation of a patient’s environment is also a trend Isaw in the history of nursing especially in nursing careers like that ofHarriet Dame, who worked hard to advocate for the military to have sanitaryareas to be treated, sanitary nursing supplies and adequate surgeons. This isimportant to me in my nursing care because we are always doing more andlearning more to prevent hospital acquired infections for our patients. Wheneverdoing a sterile dressing change always making sure I take my time as to notharm my patients, or even just offering a patient a shower/sponge bath andcleaning their sheets. Finally,I found many of these historical nurses wereinvolved in education of new nurses and passing on of their skills to others.This is very relevant to me as I am always wanting to learn more in my nursingcareer and am working on my BSN to continue my education. ( “Nursing timelineof historical events n.d.”)

Refrences

Hood, L. J., & Leddy, S. K. (2006). Conceptual bases of professionalnursing (6^th ed.). Philadelphia: LippincottWilliams & Wilkins.