Module 3 (Week 4 - FN)

Question 1

Environmental Theory
Founder of Modern Nursing Lady with the lamp
— Completed nursing training in 1851 at Kaiserwerth,
Germany.
—After her return to England, she was employed to
examine hospital facilities and charitable institutions.
— 2 years after completing her training, she became
the superintendent of the Hospital for Invalid
Gentlewomen in London.

Answer 1

Florence Nightingale

Question 2

The Nigthingale Era

Answer 2

• Founder of Modern Nursing
• Lady with the Lamp
• Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not
• Rich and intellectual family
• fErst scientist - theorist
• Nightingale Training School for Nurses
• Called by God (God spoke to me and called me to his service)
• Environmental Theory

Question 3

She created the Polar Area Diagram to
represent the extent of needless death in the
British military hospitals in Crimea.

Answer 3

Florence Nigthingale

Question 4

*“ The act of utilizing the environment of the client to assist him in his recovery.”
*Nurse’s initiative to configure environmental settings
Manipulation of the physical environment as a major component of nursing care“ The act of utilizing the
environment of the client to assist him in his recovery.”
*Nurse’s initiative to configure environmental settings
*Manipulation of the physical environment as a major component of nursing care

Answer 4

ENVIRONMENTAL THEORY

Question 5

Healthy surroundings were necessary for proper nursing care and the restoration and maintenance of health.

Answer 5

Light
Air
Water
Cleanliness
Drainage

Question 6

Major Concepts

Answer 6

surroundings
QUIET and DIET
PETTY MANAGEMENT - Nursing Administration

Question 7

— patient
— the one who receives care a
dynamic and complex being (passive patient & patients performing self-care when possible)

Answer 7

Person

Question 8

— being well and using every power
(resource) to the fullest extent in living life.

Disease and illness — reparative process of nature.

Health Nursing — enhancing living better until peaceful
death

Answer 8

Health

Question 9

— anything can
be manipulated to place a patient
in the best possible condition for
nature to act.

Answer 9

ENVIRONMENT

Question 10

being responsible for someone else’s health
— a spiritual calling
— nurses were to assist nature to
repair the patient, responsible to
provide physicians with accurate
information about patients.

Answer 10

URSING

Question 11

12 SUB CONCEPTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL THEORY

Answer 11

*HEALTH OF HOUSES
*VENTILATION AND WARMING
*LIGHT
*CLEANLINESS OF ROOMS AND WALLS (dust, mildew)
*PERSONAL CLEANLINESS
*NOISE
*VARIETY (cards, flowers, pictures, books)
*BED AND BEDDING
*NUTRITION AND TAKING FOOD
*CHATTERING HOPES AND ADVISES
*OBSERVATION OF THE SICK
*PETTY MANAGEMENT

Question 12

3 Major Relationships

Answer 12

1.Environment to Patient
2.Nurse to Environment
3.Nurse to Patient