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副本 - NHD Process Paper
副本 - NHD Process Paper
副本 - NHD Process Paper
For our National History Day Project, we chose Florence Nightingale taking a stand in
the history of nursing profession. In the beginning, we got the idea from the list of possible
categories. We thought about researching the history of women rights or women who had
influential impact in history. We first had an interest on Queen Elizabeth of England for the
reason that she ruled a great empire. After some research, we found that she did not complete
that many reforms as taking a stand in history, so we decided to change the topic. We researched
about important women in history, and we found Nightingale to be interest to research as the
to her as primary sources. We found most of our information about Nightingale’s life and
Crimean war which she was involved from websites and letters that were written by her. We
used some newspaper articles and poems that praise her accomplishments in establishing the
nursing profession. We also used her book and gathered information about her attitude on
nursing.
In the beginning, we only knew Nightingale as a famous nurse. After further research, we
learned that she was not simply a nurse at a hospital but a woman who established the standard
of sanitation in hospital, which benefited posterity’s health issues and wound recoveries.
Regarding to her opening of nursing field, we understood that Nightingale gained women rights
and created opportunities for women to work in society as women were considered as
housewives during that period. We found people’s admirations on her were fairly reasonable.
exhibit board. With the model, we decided how it’s going to look and the decorations that can
represent our topic. We annotated the sources by stating the importance to our topic, then we
eliminated them to only the ones that most support our argument. We also searched up pictures
of Nightingale as the lady with the lamp and her during work. By our understanding of the
importance orders. We mostly focused on more photos that can represent the ideas instead of
words.
Florence Nightingale founded the nursing profession. Her improvements and established,
high, strict standards for sanitary condition reduced the death rate of British soldiers by two
thirds during the Crimean War, and it still have a large influence in modern day nursing. With
her accomplishments, patients don’t need to suffer more under the wound infection. They are