Publications

[florence nightingale].		2000	5205018
the "eastern-woman question": martineau and nightingale visit the harem.		1999	22039643
a nightingale-based model for dementia care and its relevance for korean nursing.	this article addresses the synchrony between a western middle-range theory of care for persons with dementia and traditional korean nursing care. the western theory is called a need-driven, dementia-compromised behavior model and is heavily influenced by the assessment categories outlined in nightingale's work. this model is presented as congruent with nightingale's work and then viewed from the perspective of traditional korean nursing. several congruencies and a few incongruencies are found be ...	1999	11847637
'concerning our national honour': florence nightingale and the welfare of aboriginal australians.	florence nightingale was a prolific writer on many subjects from nursing to religion to hospital design and sanitary statistics. her writing on the indigenous people of australia is little known but should be of interest especially to those involved in the present desperate search for ways to improve the health of australia's first settlers. nightingale's evidence was second-hand, derived largely from missionaries, especially bishop salvado of the benedictine foundation of new norcia in western ...	1999	10401285
the politics of health promotion: influences on public health promoting nursing practice in ontario, canada from nightingale to the nineties.	the marked and significant differences in the various meanings ascribed to health promotion in professional literature provide evidence of the concept's evolution over the last half of the 20th century and testify both to the powerful influences of dominant ideologies and the invisibility of others. the "new public health" marks a return to a conceptualization of health that is consistent with a nursing paradigm and thus potentially useful in supporting nursing health promotion practice. to take ...	1999	10961264
a nightingale legacy: the art of nursing. interview by marie manthey.		1999	10808800
florence nightingale. pioneer of nursing profession.		1999	10795289
teaching students about nursing and the environment: part 1--nursing role and basic curricula.	since the time of nightingale, the phenomena of health, person, nursing, and environment have been considered central to nursing. however, of all the concepts, environment appears to have been the least explored, practiced, and researched. nursing education does not adequately prepare nurses to understand the impact of the environment on health or to implement environmental interventions. this 2-part series is designed to assist faculty in teaching this content. part 1 provides historical backgr ...	1999	10349818
on leaving florence nightingale behind.		1999	10335802
nightingalism: haunting nursing history.	this paper is concerned with determining how 'florence nightingale' functions in discourse about nurses and nursing. it argues that the nursing profession needs to recognise that the name 'florence nightingale' serves a political function that, even in the 1990s, is still used to construct certain truths about nursing praxis. more specifically, it argues that if the nursing profession wants to know how history affects its practice then we need to question the whole system of knowledge created ab ...	1999	10409971
effects of song overlapping and alternating on nocturnally singing nightingales.	the timing of songs during vocal interactions in male passerines is an important component in territorial signalling as it can reflect information on the singer's state or possibly its quality. using interactive playback, i investigated effects of song alternation and song overlapping on the nocturnal singing behaviour of nightingales, luscinia megarhynchos. subjects timed their songs differently depending on whether the playback songs overlapped their songs or alternated with them. during overl ...	1999	10564608
auditory-visual stimulus pairing enhances perceptual learning in a songbird.	in many oscine birds, song learning is affected by social variables, for example the behaviour of a tutor. this implies that both auditory and visual perceptual systems should be involved in the acquisition process. to examine whether and how particular visual stimuli can affect song acquisition, we tested the impact of a tutoring design in which the presentation of auditory stimuli (i.e. species-specific master songs) was paired with a well-defined nonauditory stimulus (i.e. stroboscope light f ...	1999	10413550
one nurse's experience with technology.	this article examines the positive and negative aspects of working with a documentation and information management system from the unique perspective of a practicing home care nurse who was also a student. aspects of the nightingale tracker technology that are comparable with others used in home care, experiences of field testing, and the nurse's observations can help home care nurses see how this technology can benefit their practice.	1999	10562013
barbara dossey, rn, ms on holistic nursing, florence nightingale, and healing rituals. interview by bonnie horrigan.		1999	9893319
essence of emergency nursing.	for many years researchers, theorists and academics have embarked on a quest to identify and describe what exactly nursing is. if nurses like benner, henderson and even nightingale have grappled with the question then what chance have we, as clinical nurses, of solving this enigma? and if nursing, per se, is not well defined how can we ever hope to explain what emergency nursing is about?	1999	27710018
[holism in theoretical models of nursing].	in this bibliographical analysis, we present the classification of nine theoretical nursing models which frame holistic thinking according to the school of thought of human needs, interaction and outcome. it further describes the definition of holism, health, client and nursing in the holistic conception, with the objective of portraying holism in the theoretical references of nursing: the ambiental theory of nightingale, the interpersonal theory of peplau, the philosophical theory of hall, the ...	1999	12138466
an exploration of the potential benefits of pet-facilitated therapy.	there is mounting evidence to suggest that those who keep pets are likely to benefit from various improvements in health. despite founders of nursing such as florence nightingale advocating the importance of animals within the care environment, their integration into hospitals and other health care settings has been slow. the literature on animal-induced health benefits is reviewed and the conclusion is drawn that the potential benefits of pet therapy are considerable. it is suggested that nurse ...	1999	10624248
caring in an environment of change and casemix funding.	caring has been defined by nurses and consumers of health care as an integral component of nursing. florence nightingale was the first nurse to describe an ethos of caring, and since then other theorists and clinicians have continued to support and develop a philosophy of care. studies have highlighted that patients and their families also value care. however, concerns have been expressed that the current health care ideology is making caring practices more difficult to enact. the new priorities ...	1999	11096791
the novel and nursing history: a consideration of potential sources.	the use of novels in general as a historical source is discussed in this paper. the author shows that, while they must be used with extreme caution, a novel can provide insight for the historian. literature concerning the role of novels for informing nursing history is reviewed in the paper. the novel jean becomes a nurse by yvonne trewin is considered in detail. the novel's aim, stated in its introduction, of encouraging readers to become nurses, is highlighted. aspects of the book's content ar ...	1999	11624213
nurses as observers and monitors: an australian experience 1930-1950.	during the time of nursing reforms being advocated by nightingale in the 1860s, the medical profession was also undergoing considerable change and reform. scientific developments were beginning to make an impact on the world of medicine, and health reformists were campaigning for public health initiatives. as part of this health reformation, nurses took on the tasks of observation and monitoring of patients (formally delegated to trainee doctors) within the wards of the general hospitals. this w ...	1999	11624212
mary grant seacole: the first nurse practitioner.	mary grant seacole was born in 1805, in kingston, jamaica, to a jamaican doctress (medicine woman) and a scottish naval officer. later seacole became a doctress, nursing british soldiers during epidemics of cholera, dysentery, and yellow fever in jamaica, cuba, and panama. after refusals by both the british government and florence nightingale to be allowed to practice in scutari, she financed her own way to the scene of the crimean war and then established the british hotel to serve both the com ...	1998	12675077
florence nightingale and the enduring legacy of transpersonal human caring.		1998	9867500
the future of robotics can be ours.	as the use of robotic aides increases the possibility of telesurgery, the perioperative scope of practice could include using patients' homes or other nontraditional settings as surgical sites. even mobile surgical vans could be used. to perform telesurgery, the health care industry actively must define the role of the health care professional with the patient who can make an incision and insert a laparoscope. this may create an opportune time to promote the rn first assistant (rnfa) role--a goa ...	1998	9592608
[adolescence and adolescents: new meaning based on the social determination of the health-disease process].	this study, of historical and dialectic referential, was written from the perspective of the redefinition of adolescence, and how it fits into health intervention. recognizing the transdisciplinary character of this task, the objective of this work is to contribute to the nursing of the adolescent, learning by analyzing work is to contribute to the nursing of the adolescent, learning by analyzing works produced within brazilian academic nursing studies. the empirical material consisted of 22 mas ...	1998	12138479
florence nightingale. a 19th-century mystic.	florence nightingale (1820-1910) received a clear and profoundly moving call to serve god at the age of 16. through a lifetime of hard work and discipline, she became a practicing mystic in the western tradition, thereby becoming an instrument of god's love, which was the primary source of her great energy and the fabled "nightingale power." to understand the life and work of this legendary healer, who forever changed human consciousness, the role of women, and nursing and public health systems ...	1998	9801533
florence nightingale. her crimean fever and chronic illness.	florence nightingale's crimean fever and chronic illness have intrigued historians for more than a century and a half. the purpose of this article is threefold: (a) to discuss the facts that point to the cause of nightingale's crimean fever as brucellosis, (b) to show that her debilitating illness for 32 years (1855-1887) was compatible with the specific form of chronic brucellosis, and (c) to present new evidence that she was still having severe symptoms in december 1887, when it was previously ...	1998	9801534
computer simulation of fat and muscle burn in long-distance bird migration	the mechanical power required from a bird's flight muscles was recalculated at regular intervals (default 6 min), and the energy consumed in the interval was accounted for by reducing fuel reserves, which also reduced the all-up mass and the body cross-sectional area. part of the energy requirement was met by consuming flight muscle tissue, according to one of three alternative "muscle burn criteria". these were (1) specific work held constant, (2) power density held constant and (3) muscle mass ...	1998	9593656
world-wide commemorative moment for florence nightingale and nursing.		1998	10095473
the role of nurse educators in the development of reflective practitioners: a selective case study of the australian and uk experience.	the potential to improve patient/client care, stimulate the personal and professional growth of the practitioner and help close the theory practice gap has provoked much discussion in the nursing literature on the benefits of reflection on practice. in order to examine recent developments in this area, a study tour, supported by the florence nightingale foundation, was conducted in australia and the uk during the spring and summer of 1995. using an illuminative case study approach, data collecte ...	1998	9528531
health informatics education and research at the university of athens.	in europe, coordinated activities in healthcare informatics education started in the late 1980s with the establishment of european courses in health telematics. at the same time the european commission foresaw the need for spreading the knowledge of information technology (it) in the healthcare sector. therefore the ec, since then, has supported the initiatives that aim to create awareness, stimulate diffusion, and educated and train the users (healthcare professionals) in the application of it ...	1998	27699334
proceedings of the 2nd year conferences and workshops of the nightingale project.		1998	10184914
[florence nightingale goes into politics].		1998	9496140
the education of registered nurses for practice in paediatric intensive care units in australia and new zealand.	this article summarizes a report on the findings of a study of the education and training of registered nurses for practice in paediatric intensive care units (picus) in australia and new zealand. the study was funded by the florence nightingale foundation and sandra charitable trust, and was carried out in late 1997. one element of the study was the exploration of four paediatric intensive care courses in australia and new zealand. the study firstly identified that these courses appeared to be ...	1998	9814210
florence nightingale meets perry mason.	nurse and attorney skills have brought this executive to one of the largest automotive companies in the industry. this author weaves together the story of how she combined unique skills and talents, along with taking opportunities when they arose, to get her where she is today.	1998	9801655
florence nightingale's relevance to nurses.	nurses are actively finding florence nightingale to be relevant to nursing knowledge, nursing organization, and nursing education. a study of her life is also seen to be relevant and there is a need to look at nightingale's writings for a deeper understanding of her relevance.	1998	9801539
florence nightingale. passionate statistician.	nightingale's passionate commitment to statistics was based on her faith in a god of order, who created a world that ran by law. god's laws could be known through research, as a result of which suitable interventions to better the world could be applied. statistics were a vital component in her holistic approach to health care as a system. they served both to indicate serious problems and to assist in policy making, and then again to monitor the effects of the new policies. she pioneered the use ...	1998	9801538
plato, nightingale, and contemporary nursing.	to explore the influence of plato's ideal of leadership on nightingale's vision for nursing. nightingale left her imprint on nursing; greater understanding of nightingale's legacy clarifies several contemporary problems in the field.	1998	9753846
structural and functional analysis of chromatin assembled from defined histones.	in this review we describe how the extract-mediated chromatin assembly system derived from preblastoderm drosophila embryos can be modified to assemble chromatin from defined histones. this approach combines the advantages of assembling (i) chromatin templates from homogeneous histones with (ii) an assembly system that generates chromatin with physiological nucleosome spacing and density and that contains the biological complexity of in vivo chromatin. we have used this technique to assemble non ...	1998	9740722
developing curriculum in nursing informatics in europe.	the nightingale project (nightingale project: hc1109 dgxiii contract and technical annex, european commission, december 1995) which started on the 1st of january, 1996, after the approval of the european commission, has a 36 month duration. it is essential in planning and implementing a strategy in training the nursing profession in using and applying healthcare information systems. nightingale contributes towards the appropriate use of the developed telematics infrastructure across europe by ed ...	1998	9726502
female survivors of abuse attending a & e with self-injury.	accident and emergency departments are concerned with trauma whatever the source or client age. this mixed trauma culture can be a distressing place, not least for women whose self-injury is 'self-inflicted' rather than accidental in nature. the women, who might be survivors of childhood sexual abuse, are sometimes viewed as service abusers, on occasions subjected to misinterpretation, labelled as 'time-wasters' and consequently stigmatized. the misunderstanding based on misinterpretation of lan ...	1998	9887688
nursing informatics education for advanced nursing practice.	this paper describes how nursing informatics content will be integrated into the education of advanced nursing practitioners at masters level. changes in health care, especially the need to deliver evidence based nursing care and the growing amount of health data, information and knowledge, require well educated advanced nurse practitioners to lead the nursing profession. the nursing informatics content for this level of nursing education is described and compared with national and international ...	1998	10179630
nightingale mm system--the work in progress.	a multimedia computer based system for the self-learning of nursing informatics has been designed as a part of nightingale project. a video thread has been designed as a central structure and "a real life anchor" for the abstract concepts related to the electronic patient record. the hypermedia structure of the application has been maintained through the mapping of illustrated it entries to specific points in the video sequences.	1998	10179620
nightingale--a new perspective in nursing informatics education in europe.	the nightingale project, which is an eu financed project, is considered as essential in planning and implementation of strategy in training the nursing profession in using and applying healthcare information systems. therefore, nightingale gives a new perspective in nursing informatics education in europe. in 1997 some major goals of the nightingale project were accomplished. these achievements are described in this document.	1998	10179605
nightingale product design competition 1997.		1998	10539240
curriculum development and courseware implementation using world wide web technology.	the curriculum development of medical informatics related courses and their adoption into the faculty curriculum is one of the main tasks of the present day educators. to this end the internet technology has supported this task. the internet was born in december of 1969 and has grown phenomenally since. its graphically interactive, user-friendly modality, the world wide web (www), is younger and growing even more explosively. by its nature, the www is a tool ideally and uniquely suited for the a ...	1998	10384567
health and nursing informatics education.	in europe, coordinated activities in healthcare informatics education started in the late 1980's with the establishment of european courses in health telematics. at the same time the european commission foresaw the need for spreading the knowledge of it in the healthcare sector. therefore the ec, since then, have supported the initiatives that aim to create awareness, stimulate diffusion, educate and train the users (healthcare professionals) in the application of information technology to the h ...	1998	10351863
outcome evaluation in nursing in australia, 1960-1980.	while empirical evaluation of the outcome of patient care has come to the fore in recent years due to political initiatives, there has always been a professional interest by nurses in the end result of their care. a review of the literature shows that outcome evaluation was advocated for nursing as early as the 1860s by florence nightingale. this article explores the evolvement of outcome evaluation within nursing in australia, discussing its origins during the 1960s and 1970s. the measurement o ...	1998	10537570
professional closure: constructing the image of new zealand nursing 1880-1940.	the concept of professional closure is a sociological explanation for the way that professions limit their membership. from early in the nineteenth century the medical profession in new zealand promoted exclusionary closure strategies which ensured their control over the other health-related occupational groups. this paper examines the way that professional closure has shaped the development of nursing in this country since nightingale nurses arrived in new zealand in the 1880s, and how professi ...	1998	10481640
[florence nightingale--in historical perspective].		1998	10909519
the power of environmental adaptation. florence nightingale's original theory for nursing practice.	florence nightingale was a prolific writer. her diaries, letters, monographs, and books remain as a part of her legacy. from these documents, her ideas, values, and beliefs in a wide range of topics can be identified. the philosophical basis of modern nursing is generally seen as nightingale's most recognized contribution to societal change. in fact, her documents contain her philosophical assumptions and beliefs regarding all elements found in the metaparadigm of nursing. these can be formed in ...	1998	9801537
florence nightingale. the evolution and social impact of feminist values in nursing.	although generally recognized as the founder of modern nursing, florence nightingale has been criticized for her apparent lack of support of women's issues, including suffrage. this article examines the primary and supporting literature surrounding this topic. findings indicate that nightingale developed a complex set of beliefs that supported women as individuals rather than from a gender perspective. she did, in fact, support the concept of women's suffrage but did not give it priority. victor ...	1998	9801536
florence nightingale. her personality type.	the purpose of this article is to cast new and refreshing light on florence nightingale's life and work by examining her personality type. using the theory-based myers-briggs type indicator (mbti), the author examines nightingale's personality type and reveals that she was an introverted-intuitive-thinking-judging (intj) type. the merit of using the mbti is that it allows us to more clearly understand three major areas of nightingale's life that have been partially unacknowledged or misunderstoo ...	1998	9801535
the nightingale tracker: information technology for community nursing education.	the international health care delivery system is evolving to include an increased emphasis on community care and automated clinical information and communication systems. these trends are dramatically affecting nursing education in the u.s. as faculty consider the strategies needed to communicate with their students at multiple clinical sites, and to educate students to fulfill their changing practice roles. in response to these changes, fitne, inc. is using triangulated research methods to deve ...	1997	10175425
the virtues in the moral education of nurses: florence nightingale revisited.	the virtues have been a neglected aspect of morality; only recently has reference been made to their place in professional ethics. unfashionable as florence nightingale is, it is nonetheless worth noting that she was instrumental in continuing the aristotelian tradition of being concerned with the moral character of persons. nurses who came under nightingale's sphere of influence were expected to develop certain exemplary habits of behaviour. a corollary can be drawn with the current uk professi ...	1997	9052177
conceptualizing advanced nursing practice: curriculum issues to consider in the educational preparation of advanced practice nurses in the uk.	the findings from a florence nightingale scholarship to the usa and canada, investigating the educational preparation of advanced practice nurses, are reported. the author considers a number of issues facing curriculum designers who might wish to develop clinically based advanced practice nurse programmes in the uk. utilizing the experimental nature of personal visits, along with the available literature, the strategy adopted by some american and canadian universities is highlighted to exemplify ...	1997	9104681
florence nightingale's memory loss.	alzheimer's disease presents in many guises from the frankly florid to the benign decline in memory and functioning. florence nightingale (1820-1910) is well known to the public as the face behind the nursing profession. what has not been well studied is her cognitive decline in old age. evidence is presented to support the diagnosis of late onset alzheimer's disease, perhaps from a familial basis, this being the major contributor to her death. her last years were with dignity and can be an insp ...	1997	9137312
florence nightingale and holistic philosophy.	florence nightingale lived at a time when allopathy and homeopathy were competing for dominance in medical care. nightingale's philosophy of health and healing was more similar to the holistic philosophy of homeopathy than to the mechanistic philosophy of allopathy. why, then, did nightingale align organized nursing with allopathic medicine? perhaps nightingale, always the pragmatist, understood that allopathy would gain the dominant position in medicine. perhaps aligning nursing with allopathy ...	1997	9146193
auditory scene analysis by songbirds: stream segregation of birdsong by european starlings (sturnus vulgaris).	three experiments examined the capacity of european starlings to segregate perceptually 2 superimposed, intermixed auditory stimuli. the stimuli were 10-s song samples from 2 of 4 songbird species: european starling, brown thrasher, mockingbird, and nightingale. the birds first learned a discrimination between the intermixed song pairs. then, they maintained the discrimination with novel song exemplars in the mixtures and when song stimuli for each species were presented alone. performance fell, ...	1997	9090135
london's nightingale museum.		1997	9433294
nightingale product design competition.		1997	10539146
pastoral care and moral government: early nineteenth century nursing and solutions to the irish question.	this paper re-examines the role of the early nineteenth century nurses, conventionally depicted in nursing histories as the well-meaning but untrained catholic nursing nuns or, in post-reformation europe, servants and fellow patients. it will be argued here that professional and capable nursing had begun to transform the care of the sick poor and to demonstrate its importance to the success of medical/surgical innovation long before florence nightingale and her call to scutari. moreover, the cas ...	1997	9231271
[home from service with a heavy heart. red cross florence nightingale medal].		1997	9349014
gems of thought from florence nightingale.		1997	9391419
[florence nightingale; on the realities of "notes on nursing for the labouring classes" and its present day meaning].		1997	9326113
florence nightingale--exploring the rumours.		1997	9295472
the influence of florence nightingale's image on liverpool nurses 1945-1995.	images of florence nightingale have been crystallised over time so that an iconoclastic image is frequently presented. using oral history as a research method, a convenience sample of liverpool nurses, spanning the period 1945-1995 discussed how this image had a bearing on them as nurses and on their practice. it would appear that during their training, lectures were about florence nightingale as a person and students were expected to emulate her. the influence of the image led to a rigorous att ...	1997	11618973
florence nightingale, feminism and nursing.	three key aspects of florence nightingale remarkable life are examine. first, the influence during her formative years: the education and guidance provided by her father, the resistance by her family when she decided to become a nurse; and the rejection by nightingale of the societal expectations of a woman in the victorian era. secondly, her professional life is examined, in particular how she appears to have been viewed by certain members of society, and how it turn she viewed them. it is anti ...	1997	9378867
effects of dyadic vocal interactions on other conspecific receivers in nightingales.	during vocal interactions birds can time their song output so that their songs overlap those of a conspecific. such overlapping is usually interpreted as a directed signal of arousal or as a signal of readiness to escalate contests. inevitably, these interactions can often be heard by other conspecifics. to investigate if these conspecifics would perceive and use information derived from listening to others' interactions we conducted playback experiments in the field on male territorial nighting ...	1997	9794778
virginia henderson: reflections on a twentieth century florence nightingale.		1997	9379588
adaptation: a concept analysis.	the concept of adaptation is historically evident in nursing practice. florence nightingale showed how the environment required adaptation to meet the needs of the patient. following her lead, several nurse theorists developed models with examples of the concept of adaptation: the nurse either adapts to the patient's needs, works to help the patient adapt to the environment, or adapts the environment to the needs of the patient. sr. callista roy's adaptation model of nursing is one such nursing ...	1997	9283381
florence nightingale and medical statistics.		1997	9282139
a return to farr and nightingale.		1997	9230024
sanitary reform and nursing. edwin chadwick and florence nightingale.		1997	8979733
miss loane, florence nightingale, and district nursing in late victorian britain.		1997	8979730
need to enhance the heritage of florence nightingale.		1997	9574022
holistic health options for women.	women have played pivotal roles in maintaining health over the millennia. their health care practices always have been aligned with natural therapies. it is generally accepted that women use and are more open to complementary therapies than men. yet, there are still many obstacles to address before complementary therapies gain a broader base of support, particularly among the medical community. although research is currently in progress, definitive evidence is still lacking regarding which holis ...	1997	9444181
theoretical perspectives of nursing: a review of the literature.	the discipline of nursing has slowly evolved from the traditional role of women having been influenced by a variety of factors such as apprenticeship, humanitarian aims, religious ideals, medicine, increasing technology, politics, war, feminism and more recently research. this variety of influences is reflected in the many and varied definitions and descriptions of nursing currently espoused in the literature. a review of the most widely cited definitions and descriptions of nursing from nightin ...	1997	9429973
[from bygone days: romantic figures (florence nightingale)].		1997	9418568
the florence nightingale foundation.		1997	9407783
strachey on nightingale. (an extract from florence nightingale by lytton strachey published by penguin, 1996)		1997	11618977
memory improvement tapes: how effective for elderly adults?	the effectiveness of two commercially available audiocassette memory improvement programs was evaluated in a sample of 32 healthy, community-living elderly adults. participants were given a set of either syber vision's neuropsychology of memory power tapes (bornstein, 1989) or nightingale-conant's mega memory tapes (trudeau, 1992), and a portable cassette player, and instructed to complete the programs within 10 weeks. all participants received a comprehensive battery of memory tests prior to an ...	1997	29053088
aids awareness among nursing students of delhi.	a total of 233 students of nursing school affiliated to a major hospital of delhi were surveyed anonymously employing a predesigned, pretested and self-administered questionnaire. although, 78.6 per cent students knew that aids stands for "acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome," 15.5 per cent students were unaware of the fact that aids had reached india. majority of them were aware of various aspects of hiv/aids. however, they also had few misconceptions particularly regarding hiv transmission. co ...	1996	8778176
wingbeat frequency and the body drag anomaly: wind-tunnel observations on a thrush nightingale (luscinia luscinia) and a teal (anas crecca)	a teal (anas crecca) and a thrush nightingale (luscinia luscinia) were trained to fly in the lund wind tunnel for periods of up to 3 and 16 h respectively. both birds flew in steady flapping flight, with such regularity that their wingbeat frequencies could be determined by viewing them through a shutter stroboscope. when flying at a constant air speed, the teal's wingbeat frequency varied with the 0.364 power of the body mass and the thrush nightingale's varied with the 0.430 power. both expone ...	1996	9320660
in defense of farr and nightingale.		1996	8967702
applying nursing theory to perioperative nursing practice.	the perioperative nursing role has evolved from that of task-oriented specialists to patient-centered professionals. the concept of caring is significant to perioperative nurses and is manifested by the many caring behaviors perioperative nurses demonstrate toward surgical patients. this article describes how the element of caring is an essential function of perioperative nursing and relates the perioperative nursing role to the work of three nursing theorists (le, florence nightingale; virginia ...	1996	8853783
army nurses in wartime: distinction and pride.	nurses have served with distinction in wartime since florence nightingale went to the crimea. women often accompanied their husbands to battle during the revolutionary and civil wars, caring for the sick and wounded. although not officially given officer status until 1920, army nurses served in the spanish-american war and world war i. as officers, thousands of nurses served in subsequent wars, distinguishing themselves by their heroism, devotion to duty, and sheer tenacity of spirit.	1996	8772301
all the young men gone: losing men in the gentrification of australian nursing circa 1860-1899.	men played an important role in nursing in colonial australia. however the number of men undertaking nursing duties declined dramatically in the second half of the nineteenth century. reasons for this are explored in relation to ramifications of the introduction of the nightingale pattern of nurse training in australia, which occurred within the victorian ethos of gentility and decorum. in this context, nursing came to be seen as a calling that was natural and appropriate for women. the controll ...	1996	9117770
rules of parameter variation in homotype series of birdsong can indicate a 'sollwert' significance.	various bird species produce songs which include homotype pattern series, i.e. segments composed of a number of repeated vocal units. we compared such units and analyzed the variation of their parameters, especially in the time and the frequency domain. in addition, we examined whether and how serial changes of both the range and the trend of variation were related to song constituents following the repetitions. data evaluation showed that variation of specific serial parameters (e.g., unit pitc ...	1996	24896079
plenary session: what florence nightingale would tell us today.		1996	10161385
nightingale awards.		1996	10160312
a tribute to the pioneer of nursing. miss florence nightingale.		1996	9256770
nightingale sings the blues.		1996	8936238
100 apples divided by 15 red herrings: a cautionary tale from the mid-19th century on comparing hospital mortality rates.	in 1863, florence nightingale argued that london hospitals were dangerous, especially compared with provincial facilities. she bolstered this contention with statistics published in william farr's registrar-general report which claimed that 24 london hospitals had mortality rates exceeding 90%, whereas rural hospitals had an average mortality rate of 13%. farr had calculated mortality rates by dividing the total number of patients who died throughout the year by the number of inpatients on a sin ...	1996	8633823
wound healing and critical illness.	critically ill patients with acute wounds provide a multitude of challenges for the critical care nurse. assessment of the patient's wound and associated-disease risk factors must be an ongoing process involving the evaluation of the treatment modalities and the stage of wound healing. nightingale stated that the nurse's role "is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon." the critical care nurse plays a pivotal role in establishing and maintaining the best condition or env ...	1996	8716381
to pauperize or empower: public health nursing at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries.	from its inception, public health nursing has provided health care and teaching to all people including those who are disadvantaged and impoverished. based on the work and beliefs of florence nightingale and lillian wald, public health nurses developed positive relationships with people which resulted in healthier environments and lifestyles among diverse families and communities. and, despite societal concern that nursing care for the poor would pauperize them, it did not. it empowered them. a ...	1996	8677231
florence nightingale (1820-1910): maternal mortality and the training of midwives.		1996	8777690
mary seacole, the florence nightingale of jamaica.		1996	9355314
the "florence nightingale of jamaica"--mary seacole, nurse pioneer.		1996	9272084
the effect of ward design on the well-being of post-operative patients.	changes in the design of hospital wards have usually been determined by architects and members of the nursing and medical professions; the views and preferences of patients have seldom been sought directly. the hospital anxiety and depression scale and the disturbance due to hospital noise questionnaire were administered to 64 female patients on bay and nightingale wards together with a questionnaire designed for this study. perceptions of social and physical factors of ward design were examined ...	1996	8675902
sexual harassment and hostile environments in the perioperative area.	nursing has dealt with sexual harassment since the era of florence nightingale. despite legislation and increased media attention, perioperative nurses continue to experience frustration, embarrassment, and psychological and economic repercussions because of sexual harassment. prevention of sexual harassment must encompass individuals, employers, and the health care profession as a whole. individuals can take steps to stop sexual harassment by reporting the incidents and confronting the harasser ...	1996	8907748