Nightingale Flashcards
What is Nightingale’s Theory
Environmental Theory
When and where was she born
May 12 1820 in Florence,
Italy
She was recognized as?
Founder of Modern Nursing
What war did she serve?
Crimean War
What was her focus on developing the Environmental Theory
Focusing on sanitary conditions to promote patient health
What was her advocacy?
Nursing knowledge is distinct from medical knowledge
What concept did she introduce?
Concept of health promotion
What was Nightingales family like?
They were aristocratic and had high social status making her have access to high status people
What are the 10 major areas of the physical, social, and psychological environment that the nurse could control:
- Health
- Ventilation and Warming
- Light
- Noise
- Variety
- Bed Bedding
- Cleanliness
- Personal Cleanliness
- Nutrition and checking food
- Chattering hopes and advice
- Observation of the sick
- Petty management
What are the social and psychological environment that affect the physical environment?
Variety, chattering hopes and advice, and petty management.
What are Nightingales Nursing Process
AONOIE
Assessment
Observation
Nursing Diagnoses
Outcomes and Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
What are the 3 major relationships present in her theory
Environment to Patient
Nurse to Environment
Nurse to Patient
