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Ableton on Air has been seen in the following publications, Park Chester Times, WWW, this is the Bronx.com, New York Powered Online Newspaper, Muslim Community Report, WWW.H.com, and the Montpelier Bridge. Ableton on Air is part of the following organizations, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Boston, New England Chapter, and the Society of Professional Journalists. Welcome to the tradition of Ableton on Air, the one and only program that focuses on the needs. Hold on, are we recording Zoom? Okay, on the needs, concerns, and achievements of the different label. I've always been your host, Lauren Seiler. On this edition, we will focus on the work of nursing and nurses, and we will focus on Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton. So let's get started. First of all, we would like to say special thanks to our sponsors, Washington County Mental Health, Green Mountain Support Services, and many, many, many others. Okay, so let's get started. Florence Nightingale was born May 12, 1920, and died of August 13, 1910. I'm sorry. Yeah, she was born 1820 and died in 1910. She was an English social reformer and statistician and founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimson War, in which she organized care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. She gave nursing a favorable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of the lady with the lamp making rounds of wounded soldiers at night. Recent commentators have asserted that Nightingale's Crimson War achievements were exaggerated by the media and at the time. Critics agree on the importance of her work in professionalizing nursing roles for women. In 1860, she laid a foundation of professional nursing with the establishment of the Nursing School of St. Thomas in London. It was her pioneering work in recognition with her pioneering work in nursing. The Nightingale pledge was taken by new nurses at the Florence Nightingale Medal, the highest international distinction a nurse can achieve and named in her honor at the annual International Nurses Day is celebrated on her birthday. Her social reforms included improving healthcare in all sections of British society, advocating for better hunger relief in India and abolished prostitution laws that were harsh for women and expanding an acceptable form of female participation in the workforce. Nightingale was a pioneer of statistics. She represented her analysis in graphical forms to ease drawing conclusions and actionable from data. She developed a form of the pie chart which is known as the polar area diagram, also known or also called the Nightingale rose diagram equivalent to modern circular histogram. This diagram is still regularly used in data visualization. Nightingale was a prestigious versatile writer in her lifetime, much as her published work was concerned with spreading medical knowledge. Anything you want to say regarding that? Do you want it? Nightingale was born in May 1820 to a wealthy, well-connected British family at the Villa Cambia in Florence, Tuscany, Italy and was named after the city after her birth. Florence's older sister, Francis Park in the Beach was simply named after the place of her birth. Park in the Beach agreed. Settlement is now part of the city of Naples. The family moved back to England in 1821. Nightingale being brought up in the family's home in Embly, Hampshire and Leah Hurst, a debris shire. Florence inherited a liberal humanitarian outlook from both sides of her family. Her father, William Edward Nightingale and Fanny Nightingale, William's mother, Mary Evans, was the niece of Peter Nightingale under the terms who William inhabited his estate at Lee Hurst and assumed the name and arms of Nightingale. So let's go down through. According to some secretary sources, Nightingale had a frosty relationship with fellow nurses and hotel and hospital officers. Back then, Florence was overseeing the way hospitals were treating patients because of certain ways that people were being treated because equipment wasn't cleaned and there was too much drunkenness and as well as sickness. Now let's go down here. Nightingale had 45,000 pounds at her disposal from the Nightingale Fund. She set up the nursing training in 1860. Going back here, Nightingale's last and contribution was her role founded by the nursing profession, compassion, commitment and patient care and diligent throughout the hospital administration program. In 1912, the International Committee of the Red Cross instituted the Florence Nightingale Medal and it was awarded two years later to nurses and nursing aides for outstanding service. And it was used to also help nursing aides for exceptional courage and devotion to wounded, sick, disabled or civilian victims of conflict or disaster. Now let's go to Clara Barton. She was born in 1821 and died in 1912. So let's go down here really quick. Now this all can be found in Wikipedia. Corissa Harlow Barton was born December 25, 1821 and died April 12, 1912. Wait a minute. The same day of the, wow, was an American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher and a patent clerk. Since nursing education was not very formalized, she did not attend nursing school. She provided a self-taught nursing care. Barton was noteworthy for doing humanitarian work and civil rights advocacy. At the time, I'm going to get to that. Okay. At the time before women had a right to vote, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1973. Now Corissa Harlow Barton was born December 25, 1821 in North Oxford, Massachusetts and was named after the titular character Samuel Richardson's novel Corissa. Her father, Captain Stephen Barton, a member of the local militia under command from General Anthony Wayne and a crusade against the indigenous of the Northwest. She was also a leader of the progressive thought in the Oxford Village area. Barton's mother was Sarah Stone Barton. When she was three years old, she was sent to school with her brother Stephen. She excelled in reading and spelling and she liked school very much. When Barton was ten years old, she was assigned a self-task of nursing her brother, David, back to help after he fell off a roof from a head injury. She learned to distribute and to prescribe medications to her brother and how to, she learned how to place leeches on his body to help bleed the mouth, bleed at the time. She continued to care for David long after doctors have given up. He had made a full recovery. Now Barton became an educator in 1838. She served 12 years in schools in Canada, from West Georgia, and her friendship lasted into romance. As a writer, her terminology was pristine and easy to understand. Her writings and bodies of work could instruct nursing staff. While teaching in Heistown, Barton learned about the lack of public schools in Boyle Town in the neighboring city. In 1852, she was given more teaching positions in Boyle Town, which the first ever free school in New Jersey. She was successful after a year and hired other women. Both women were making both of her and someone else were making $250 a year. Her accomplishment compelled to raise it to nearly $4,000 for a school building. They saw the position as a large institution to be unfitting for a woman female assistant because they had worked in harsh environments. In 1855, she moved to Washington, D.C. and began to work as a clerk in the U.S. Patent Office. Try not to eat while you're talking. In final years, she continued to live in her Glen Echo, Maryland, home and she served as the American Red Cross Headquarters. Upon her arrival to the house, the autobiography in 1808 titled My Story, My Childhood, on April 12, 1912, she died in her home at age 90. The cause of her death people don't really know. Yeah, yeah. But what I want to say about, okay, but what I want to say about that for the nursing professor, while we still have some time left, is that my mother was a nurse for 20 years. Nurses are having a real tough time now during COVID over the last two and a half years and we really must help the nursing staff, the nursing profession, the doctor profession. We must be good to them, be good to all people in the helping profession and especially individuals that work in the field of disabilities, the direct support professionals, the nurses age, and so on and so forth. We must give them proper wages. I mean, look, back then, Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton were making $250 a month. Yeah, but nurses and doctors need to be making more to really help it along and to give everybody a living wage. But she started the American Red Cross here. Now, really quick, let's go to the American Red Cross. The American Red Cross was started on May 21st, 1881. That's when they started. So let's go really quick. For those that want to find out more about the American Red Cross, you can go to www.redcross.org. That's www.redcross.org. So a brief history of the American Red Cross here. The American Red Cross is the nation's most premier humanitarian organization. The American Red Cross is dedicated to helping people in need throughout the United States and in association with other Red Cross networks. Throughout the world, they depend on many generous contributions of blood and money. Please, if you have a chance, please donate to organizations such as the American Red Cross. They will be glad you did. Clara Barton and a circle of acquaintances founded the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C. in 1881. Barton first heard of the Swiss-inspired Global Red Cross Network that was visiting Europe. Returning home, she campaigned for an American Red Cross and for ratification of the general protecting of war-injured people in the United States, the United States ratified in 1882. Barton led the Red Cross for 23 years and they conducted the first domestic and overseas relief aided in the United States military during the Spanish-American War and campaigned for the inclusion of peacetime relief work in the Global Red Cross Network and the so-called amendment that initially met some resistance in Europe. The Red Cross received the first congressional charter in 1900 and a second in 1905 after Barton resigned from the organization. The most recent version of the charter was adopted in May 2007 that restates the traditional purposes of the organization as giving relief and serving as a medium of communication between the American armed forces and families protecting national and international disaster, relief and migration. Excuse me, well, today's show was about nurses, Clara Barton and Florence. Nightingale, for more information you can go to Wikipedia and also the American Red Cross to find out more about Clara Barton. Yeah, but before we end, we would like to thank our sponsors, Washington County Mental Health, Green Mountain Support Services, and many, many, many others. Again, we would like to thank our sponsors, Washington County Mental Health and Green Mountain Support Services for supporting Ableton on Air. This ends this edition of Ableton on Air. Thank you to our nurses, thank you to our doctors, and thank you for all the work you are doing. Again, my mother was a nurse for many, many years and we have family members that are nurses. We thank you and salute you for your service for helping people in war, for helping people with disabilities, people with special needs, and just people who need your help. We thank you to all the nursing staff and thank you to organizations such as the American Red Cross. This puts an end to this edition of Ableton on Air. This has been a history of nurses on this edition of Ableton on Air. See you next time. Major sponsors for Ableton on Air include Green Mountain Support Services, empowering people with disabilities to live home in the community. Washington County Mental Health, where hope and support come together. Media sponsors for Ableton on Air include Park Chester Times, Muslim Community Report, WWW, this is the Bronx.info, Associated Press Media Additors, New York Power Online Newspaper, U.S. Press Corps Domestic and International, Anchor FM, and Spotify. 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