Nursing Heritage notes Florence Nightingale and Jean Watson short summary

The nursing pioneer I chose was Florence Nightingale. I felt I could relate most to her with my experience in a hospital setting. When I read about how Nightingale first found the soldiers in a hospital still wearing the dirty uniforms they had been brought there in, it triggered some experiences of patients coming to my floor from the ER after being in a car accident. The patients were not clean and still wearing the …

…A patient who has a more positive outlook seems to do better and heal faster decreasing their stay in the hospital. One site that would be helpful to me as a nursing student is http://www.healthweb.org. It has a range of categories to help find information and lead you to other websites dealing with that specific subject. It gives you several choices to chose from, so your information isn't limited to one source.