Florence Nightingale’s Environmental Theory on Health Promotion
The goal of nursing as described by Nightingale’s theory is to assist the patient in his or her retention of “vital power”—healing— by meeting his or her needs (Nightingale 1860/1969). Florence Nightingale, also known as “The lady with the lamp” focused on an environment conducive toward healing and this conceptualization clearly differentiated the role of nursing from medicine (Potter et al., 2014). In this paper, I will analyze Nightingale’s Environmental theory and its contributions to the ability of a person to maintain and restore health through the management of the environment. This paper includes a discussion of Florence Nightingale’s legacy of caring and how this model …show more content…
Among these canons, ventilation and warmth were considered the most important because it included interventions aimed at keeping the patient and patient’s room odor-free, warm, and well ventilated (Masters, 2015). Health of houses include the five essentials of pure air, pure water, efficient drainage, cleanliness, and light. The essence of Petty management is the quality of care over time while keeping noise to a minimum is also a factor in achieving high quality care (Masters, 2015). The observation of the sick is the last canon of the environmental theory which includes making observations and documenting these observations (Masters, 2015).
Florence Nightingale employed inductive reasoning in the development of her descriptive theory with many of its principles originating from her experience in the Crimean war (Selanders, 1993). The metaparadigm defines the discipline of nursing and how the implementation of natural laws allows for the interaction of a person, environment, health, and nursing (Selanders, 1993). Although Florence Nightingale did not write in terms of a metaparadigm, she has been credited with developing the first conceptual …show more content…
2005). With the focus on the 13canons, Nightingale’s Environmental theory supports recovery, health, and healing; this theory of nursing care also emphasizes the positive health determining patterns—creation of health promoting environments (Dossey et al. 2005). This model envisions that nurses would proactively improve these key determinants to maintain health (Dossey et al. 2005).
I still recall the day when I faced a depressing situation in my clinical setting. As a volunteer in a nursing care home in Nigeria, I was assigned a patient with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease [COPD] who had an increased feeling of fatigue and lack of energy. Nightingale (1860/1969) stated that when aspects of the environment are out of balance, a patient uses his increased energy to balance it; this extra effort drains the patient of his healing power. This was the case of my patient as his breathing required a conscious effort which consumed a lot of energy (Leader,
The goal of nursing as described by Nightingale’s theory is to assist the patient in his or her retention of “vital power”—healing— by meeting his or her needs (Nightingale 1860/1969). Florence Nightingale, also known as “The lady with the lamp” focused on an environment conducive toward healing and this conceptualization clearly differentiated the role of nursing from medicine (Potter et al., 2014). In this paper, I will analyze Nightingale’s Environmental theory and its contributions to the ability of a person to maintain and restore health through the management of the environment. This paper includes a discussion of Florence Nightingale’s legacy of caring and how this model …show more content…
Among these canons, ventilation and warmth were considered the most important because it included interventions aimed at keeping the patient and patient’s room odor-free, warm, and well ventilated (Masters, 2015). Health of houses include the five essentials of pure air, pure water, efficient drainage, cleanliness, and light. The essence of Petty management is the quality of care over time while keeping noise to a minimum is also a factor in achieving high quality care (Masters, 2015). The observation of the sick is the last canon of the environmental theory which includes making observations and documenting these observations (Masters, 2015).
Florence Nightingale employed inductive reasoning in the development of her descriptive theory with many of its principles originating from her experience in the Crimean war (Selanders, 1993). The metaparadigm defines the discipline of nursing and how the implementation of natural laws allows for the interaction of a person, environment, health, and nursing (Selanders, 1993). Although Florence Nightingale did not write in terms of a metaparadigm, she has been credited with developing the first conceptual …show more content…
2005). With the focus on the 13canons, Nightingale’s Environmental theory supports recovery, health, and healing; this theory of nursing care also emphasizes the positive health determining patterns—creation of health promoting environments (Dossey et al. 2005). This model envisions that nurses would proactively improve these key determinants to maintain health (Dossey et al. 2005).
I still recall the day when I faced a depressing situation in my clinical setting. As a volunteer in a nursing care home in Nigeria, I was assigned a patient with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease [COPD] who had an increased feeling of fatigue and lack of energy. Nightingale (1860/1969) stated that when aspects of the environment are out of balance, a patient uses his increased energy to balance it; this extra effort drains the patient of his healing power. This was the case of my patient as his breathing required a conscious effort which consumed a lot of energy (Leader,