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Florence Nightingale's nursing theory, which emphasizes the importance of the physical environment in the healing process. It describes the five environmental factors that can assist in a patient's recovery, as well as the components of the environmental theory. The document also explains Nightingale's metaparadigm, which includes the patient, the nurse, and the environment. This document could be useful for students studying nursing theory or the history of nursing.
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Florence Nightingale: Environment Theory
● The foundational component of Nightingale’s theory ● The external conditions & forces that affect one’s life and development ● Includes everything from a person’s food to a nurse’s verbal & nonverbal interactions with the patient Health ● Maintained by using a person’s healing powers to their fullest extent ● Maintained by controlling the environmental factors so as to prevent disease ● Disease is viewed as a reparative process instituted by nature ● Health & disease are the focus of the nurse ● Nurses help patients through their healing process Nursing ● Nursing education belongs in the hands of nurses. ● Nursing is a discipline distinct from medicine focusing on the patient’s reparative process rather than on their disease.