Nursing-Theories-module.pdf

Description

This document provides an overview of Florence Nightingale's environmental theory of nursing. Some key points:

1) Nightingale established modern nursing and was the founder of nursing theory. She emphasized the importance of the patient's environment and proposed specific factors like ventilation, light, noise, and cleanliness that influence health.

2) Her theory defined nursing as putting the patient in the best condition for nature to act and separating it from medicine. She saw the environment as something that could be altered to promote patient health and healing.

3) Nightingale's theory focused on physical health factors but less on psychological needs. Nonetheless, her ideas revolutionized nursing and established it as a profession focused on environmental adaptations to