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Non-Nursing & Nursing Theories Relevant to Nursing Practice

Theorist Full Name Florence Nightingale

Theory Environmental Theory

● It involves the nurse's initiative to create appropriate environmental
settings for the patient's gradual restoration of health and that
external factors linked with the patient's surroundings affect the
patient's life, as well as his development.
● Environmental factors that affect health are: fresh air, pure water,
adequate food supply, proper drainage, cleanliness of the patient and
environment, and light. If any of these areas is lacking, the patient's
health may deteriorate.
● The Environment Theory, which focuses on taking care of the
patient's environment in order to achieve health goals and cure
illness, contains seven assumptions and has 10 major concepts.
● In this theory, the goal of nursing is to change the patient's
surroundings in order to cause change in his or her health.

Biography of the Theorist
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● Florence Nightingale is a nurse, statistician, and social reformer who
was born on May 12, 1820 in Florence, Italy. She was the founder of
modern nursing and was known to be the “Lady with the Lamp”
● In 1844, Nightingale enrolled as a nursing student at Pastor
Fliedner's Lutheran Hospital in Kaiserswerth, Germany.
● She accepted the position of superintendent of the Institute for the
Care of Sick Gentlewomen in Upper Harley Street, London, in 1853.
● During the Crimean War in 1854, she organized an expedition of 38
women to take over operation of the barrack hospital at Scutari,
where she witnessed the terrible sanitary conditions.
● In 1856, she returned to England. Later on, she founded the
Nightingale Training School for Nurses at St Thomas' Hospital in
London in 1860.
● She was the first woman awarded the Order of Merit (1907)
● Florence Nightingale fell ill in August 1910 which led to her death in
August 12, 1910 in England, London.
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