PLAGIARISM EXERCISE 20A
Florence Nightingale is regarded as the founder of modern nursing. Her book Notes on Nursing: What It (
Is and What It Is Not was first published in 1859 and is old enough to be in the public domain. Therefore,
people are welcome to download and read--entirely for free-online editions such as the one found
on the Project Gutenberg website (www.gutenberg.org/files/17366/17366-h/17366-h.htm). However,
even if her work is no longer under copyright, all researchers (included students) who use it in their
own research are obligated ethically to identify the original source and to distinguish their own words
and ideas from those of Nightingale.
First, consider this passage from book mentioned above. It concerns the idea that nurses are respon-
sible not only for treating diseases but for keeping patients comfortable and healthy:
In watching disease, both in private houses and in public hospitals, the thing which strikes the experienced observer
most forcibly is this, that the symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the
disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh
air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet,
of each or of all of these. And this quite as much in private as in hospital nursing.
Second, read each of the following passages from student essays and answer the following questions:
Does each passage include any instances of plagiarism? Explain your reasoning. If it does include pla-
giarism, what would a writer need to revise to maintain academic honesty?
1.
What is the responsibility of a nurse? Some people believe that a nurse needs to treat the disease, but
more accurately, a nurse needs to treat the patient. All too often, patients don't get enough fresh air, light,
warmth, quiet, cleanliness, and healthy food.
2.
Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, believed that nurses have an ethical responsibility
to keep every patient healthy and comfortable. She even suggested that a patient's suffering is often
caused by conditions that have nothing to do with the actual disease. For example, sometimes a patient
might be in need of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or even of cleanliness. It is the role of
a nurse, according to Nightingale, to take care of the patient, not just the disease.
3.
Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, believed that nurses have an ethical responsibility
to keep every patient healthy and comfortable. She even suggested that a patient's suffering is often
caused by conditions that have nothing to do with the actual disease. For example, sometimes a patient
might be in need of fresh air, light, warmth, quiet, or cleanliness. It is the role of a nurse, according to
Nightingale, to take care of the patient, not just the disease.
Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, believed that nurses have an ethical responsibility
to keep every patient healthy and comfortable. The suffering of a patient, she argued, is often caused
not by the disease itself but by a lack "of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness,
or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet."
5.
Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, believed that nurses have an ethical responsi-
bility to keep every patient healthy and comfortable. All too often, she argued, the suffering of a patient
is caused not by the disease itself but by the environment in which the patient was recovering. To get
healthy, patients need appropriate medical care, which involves cleanliness, a healthy diet, and comfort.
6.
Florence Nightingale believed that in watching disease, both in private houses and in public hospitals,
the thing which strikes the experienced observer most forcibly is this, that the symptoms or the suf-
ferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms
of the disease at all, but of something quite different- of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth,
or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of
these. She also noted that this quite as much in private as in hospital nursing.
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Florence Nightingale believed that one can observe a medical setting and conclude that the symptoms
or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not
symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different. All too often, she argued, patients are
denied fresh air, light, warmth, quiet, and cleanliness. Sometimes medical professionals are remiss in the
punctuality and care in the administration of a healthy diet. Unfortunately, this can happen as much in
private nursing as in hospital nursing, and therefore, simply moving the patient from one environment
to another will not necessarily solve the problem.