Nursing Theories: Florence Nightingale – Flashcards

Environment Person Health Nursing

Focuses on the manipulation of physical and social factors that affect health and illness. Anything that can be manipulated to place a patient in the best possible condition for nature to act. Nightingale viewed the physical environment as a critical component in health and disease. Nature would bring healing

The recipient of care She believe that a person is a dynamic and complex being, comprising physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual components. Holistic individual

Not only to be well, but to be able to use every power we have, well. She believed in prevention and promotion of health in addition to caring patients from illness to health.

View nursing as a spiritual calling Nurses are to assist nature in promoting health. Nurses were to use common sense, observation, and ingenuity to allow nature to effectively repair the patient. The nurse assesses, identifies the need, and implements a plan of care, reevaluates the situation and changes the plan to better serve the patient. Hello! Nursing Proces...

Health of houses, ventilation, heating, light, noise, bed and bedding, cleanliness, variety, nutrition, "chattering hope" observation of the sick and social considerations. She shunned germ theory, antiseptics, and bacteriology. Would rather seek the importance of good sanitation and cleanliness than disinfection. Managing the environment improves the health of the patient Maintaining a clean house, room, bedding and clothes aids recovery. Disease in nature's way to remedy the patient's condition Contact with pathological disease-causing organisms. Isolation from other patients Noise is harmful to patients Good news has a positive effect on patient recovery ("chattering hope)

-Ventilation and warmth -Light -Cleanliness of rooms and walls. -Health of houses -Noise -Bed and bedding -Variety -Personal cleanliness -Diet: Intake (amount) -What type of food consumed (nutrition for body and cure) -Petty management (Ensures continuity of care) -Observation of the sick.

-St. Margaret's Church, East Wellow, England