Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory PDF

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE: ENVIRONMENTAL THEORY FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE METAPARADIGM IN NURSING Florence is remembered today as the Person responsible Nursing for improving conditions in...

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE: ENVIRONMENTAL THEORY FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE METAPARADIGM IN NURSING Florence is remembered today as the Person responsible Nursing for improving conditions in hospitals and making nursing an Health acceptable job Environment Strongest influence: education, observation and hands-on Person experience PERSON NIGHTINGALE’S NURSING THEORY - The patient, a human being acted upon by a nurse or Theory basis: the inter-relationship of a healthful affected by the environment who has reparative powers. environment with nursing - Recovery is within the patient’s power as long as safe - External influences and conditions can prevent, environment for recuperation exists. suppress, or contribute to disease or death Theory goal: Nurses help patients retain their own vitality ENVIRONMENT by meeting their basic needs through control of the - Comprises the external conditions and forces that affect environment one’s life and development Nursing’s Focus: control of the environment for individuals, - Everything from person’s food to a nurse’s verbal and families & the community nonverbal interactions with the person. THREE TYPES OF ENVIRONMENTS HEALTH Psychological - Maintaining well-being by using a person’s powers to the Physical fullest extent; disease is viewed as a reparative process Social instituted by nature - Maintained by controlling environmental factors to prevent Physical Environment disease; nurse helps the person through the healing process. Consists of physical elements where the patient is being treated NURSING Affects all other aspects of the environment - Aims to provide fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet Cleanliness of environment relates directly to disease and proper diet; facilitates a person’s reparative by ensuring prevention and patient mortality the best possible environment; influences the environment Ventilation, warmth, cleanliness, light, to affect health. Noise and drainage NIGHTINGALE’S ASSUMPTION Psychological Environment 1. Nursing is separate from medicine. Providing a positive stress-free surrounding 2. Nurses should be trained. Can be affected by a negative physical environment which 3. The environment is important in nursing. then causes STRESS 4. The disease process is not important to nursing. Requires various activities to keep the mind active (i.e, 5. Nursing should support the environment to assist the manual work, appealing food, a pleasing patient in healing. environment) 6. Research should be utilized through observation and Involves communication with the person, about the empirics to define the nursing discipline. person, and about other people 7. Nursing is both an empirical science and an art. 8. Nursing’s concern is with the person in the environment. Social Environment 9. The person is interacting with the environment. Involves collecting data about illness and disease 10. Sick and well are governed by the same laws of health. prevention 11. The nurse should be observant and confidential. Consists of a person’s home or hospital room, as well as the total community that affects the patient’s specific environment Stress free surroundings 5 MAJOR COMPONENTS OF A HEALTHFUL ENVIRONMENT 1. Proper ventilation 2. Adequate light 3. Sufficient warmth 4. Control of noise 5. Control of effluvia(noxious odors) NIGHTINGALE’S 13 CANONS: Observation of the Sick Personal Cleanliness Petty management Light Health of Houses Cleanliness of Rooms Ventilation and warming Bed and Bedding Taking Food What food Noise Chattering Hopes and Advices Variety