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    Florence Nightingale developed the Environmental Theory of Nursing, which emphasizes the importance of manipulating the patient's environment. The theory focuses on maintaining a healthy environment for patients through proper ventilation, adequate light, cleanliness, warmth, quiet, diet, and overall management. Major assumptions of the theory are that nursing requires formal training and applying science to patient care, patients are complex beings with physical, intellectual, and spiritual attributes, and health means being well and able to use one's abilities well.

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    Florence Nightingale developed the Environmental Theory of Nursing, which emphasizes the importance of manipulating the patient's environment. The theory focuses on maintaining a healthy environment for patients through proper ventilation, adequate light, cleanliness, warmth, quiet, diet, and overall management. Major assumptions of the theory are that nursing requires formal training and applying science to patient care, patients are complex beings with physical, intellectual, and spiritual attributes, and health means being well and able to use one's abilities well.

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    Florence Nightingale developed the Environmental Theory of Nursing, which emphasizes the importance of manipulating the patient's environment. The theory focuses on maintaining a healthy environment for patients through proper ventilation, adequate light, cleanliness, warmth, quiet, diet, and overall management. Major assumptions of the theory are that nursing requires formal training and applying science to patient care, patients are complex beings with physical, intellectual, and spiritual attributes, and health means being well and able to use one's abilities well.

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    Nursing Theories and Works

    Environmental Theory of FN - “everything from the patient’s food


    and flowers to the patient’s verbal
    - Manipulation of environment as a major
    and non-verbal interactions.”
    component of nursing care.
    The Theory is applied in:
    Concepts of the Theory:
     Nursing Practice
     Healthy Environment – pure air, pure
     Nursing Education
    water, efficient drainage, cleanliness
     Nursing Research
    and light.
     Proper Ventilation – Nurses should have
    the responsibility to keep the air that
    the patient breaths pure without
    necessary chilling them.
     Adequate Light – Sick patients needs
    both fresh air and light, directed
    sunlight was what clients wanted.
     Cleanliness – “the greater part of
    nursing consists in preserving
    cleanliness.” Personal cleanliness was
    also emphasized by FN and viewed the
    function of the skin as important.
     Warmth – She outlined a procedure for
    measuring patient’s body temperature
    through palpation of or feeling for the
    extremities in order to asses for heat
    loss.
     Quiet – unnecessary noise can actually
    be harmful to the patient who is ill.
     Diet – She addressed the importance of
    variety in the food served to patients.
     Management – nurses are responsible
    for controlling the environment so that
    the patients are protected from physical
    and psychological harm.

    Major Assumptions of the Theory

     Nursing
    - FN’s view of nursing was
    comparable to that of motherly
    instincts, having responsibility to
    someone’s health. It is vocation
    that needs formal learning and
    application of scientific principles in
    the care of patients.
     Person
    - the one receiving care; dynamic
    and complex being. Has physical,
    intellectual and spiritual attributes.
     Health
    - FN viewed health as being well.
    - She wrote “Healthy is not only to
    be well, but to be able to use well
    every power we have.
     Environment
    - “those elements external to and
    which affect the health of the sick
    and healthy person.”

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