Florence And Identity

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From the article of Florence and identity. Florence is the founder of the modern nursing. We are going to discuss how this three factors (Nightingale 2016). That is, traveling and taking notes, independent and passionate and bravely helped her in the attaining knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, experiences, choice and even gain commitment her field of work. Since personal experiences, and the knowledge acquired from the power of the administration from the school and the place of work helps ranking an individual to the society.

Traveling provided exposure to the Florence Nightingale education. From one of her many travels, she gained knowledge as she even meets Kaiserwerth and become an acquaintance (Kaleemuddin et, al. 2016). The Kaiserwreth …show more content…
That is she makes her own decision regardless of much opposition by from the family. She instated in joining a nursing school that is in France where they host a training college, an orphanage, and a unitarily. From this place, she gained experience, commitment while helping the orphans. It is evident from her move in July 1851 through October in France to the Keiserwerth. The sense of commitment was gained while she was a trainee. Since all trainee was supposed to be awake by 5 a.m., take their breakfast then take get into work until noon. Of which they were to take the ten minutes break then go back to work in the wards after which they were to take another ten minutes break at three pm to take a snack, this routine was continued till 7 pm. She was in a position to make her own choice of not getting married regardless of her mother finding matches for her. She felt that if she got married, she would not be in the position to offer service to …show more content…
From the article of Florence and identity, we come to learn that she was a serious kid who was always concerned with the welfare of the others. That is she was always concerned with the well-being of the poor and the ill. Hence, when she got her first post in the home of the establishment for the gentle women in the distressed circumstances during illness (Qin et, al. 2010). She was able to acquire skills on how to handle them. From the teaching of the church and her background having been from the extended family, she gained knowledge about the existence of the higher being which is God. She learned that he is the one who does regulate the universe using certain laws. It motivated her in doing the good will as she felt it was more than a will but a responsibility hence her attitude on how she viewed things was elevated to the position where she understood thing was planned than happening randomly. In her writing about the Crimean war, she was able to reveal that it provided bases for her foundational beliefs and the rooting of all the truth. Thus, she felt that being a nurse was more than just caring for the sick, but it was more of a search for the truth and discovery of the God’s laws. Regardless, of the field of medicine and war being viewed as the field only for the men, Florence was ready to match into this area. For that, she was to lead the contingent of nurses to the
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