Florence Nightingale Flashcards
Who was a nurse who contributed in developing and shaping the modern nursing practice and has set examples for nurses which are standards for today’s profession?
Florence Nightingale
Who is the first nurse theorist well-known for developing the Environmental Theory that revolutionized nursing practices to create sanitary conditions for patients to get care?
Florence Nightingale
What is Florence Nightingale recognized for?
Founder of modern nursing
During the Crimean War, she tended to wounded soldiers at night and was known as?
“The Lady with the Lamp”
When was Florence Nightingale born?
May 12, 1820
Where was Florence Nightingale born?
Florence, Italy
Who was Florence Nightingale’s father?
William Shore Nightingale, a wealthy landowner who had inherited two estates—one at Lea Hurst, Derbyshire, and the other in Hampshire, Embley Park—when Nightingale was 5 years old.
Who was Florence Nightingale’s mother?
Frances Nightingale, hailed from a family of merchants and took pride in socializing with people of prominent social standing.
At what age did Florence Nightingale made the decision to dedicate her life to medical care for the sick resulting in a lifetime commitment to speak out, educate, overhaul and sanitize the appalling health care conditions in England?
Seventeen
When did Florence Nightingale enrolled as a nursing student?
1844
Where did Florence Nightingale enrolled as a nursing student?
At the Lutheran Hospital of Pastor Fliedner in Kaiserswerth, Germany.
Who did Nightingale reject as a suitor?
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, because she feared that entertaining men would interfere the process.
What did Florence Nightingale’s Environmental Theory defined Nursing as?
“The act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery.”
What involves as the nurse’s initiative to configure environmental settings appropriate for the gradual restoration of the patient’s health, and that external factors associated with the patient’s surroundings affect life or biologic and physiologic processes, and his development?
Environmental Theory
What is the 5 environmental factors identified by Florence Nightingale?
Fresh air, pure water, efficient drainage, cleanliness or sanitation and light or direct sunlight.
