TFN (Activity 1)

TAPIT, HONEYLYN C.
BSN 1-E
THEORETICAL FOUNDATION IN NURSING (TFN)
ACTIVITY 1
Q1. Who is Florence Nightingale?

- Florence Nightingale, the matriarch of modern nursing, was born on May 12,1820. At
the time of her birth, her parents were on extended European tour. Her parents,
Edward and Frances Nightingale, named their daughter after her birthplace, Florence,
Italy. Nightingale is the first nurse theorist well-known for developing the Environmental
Theory that revolutionized nursing practices to create Sanitary conditions to get care.
She I recognized as the founder of modern nursing. During the Crimean War, she tended
to wounded soldiers at night and was known as “The Lady with the Lamp”. Florence
Nightingale was a nurse who contributed to developing and shaping the modern nursing
practice and has set examples for nurses who are standards for today’s profession.
Considered the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale was influential in
developing nursing education, practice, and administration. Her publication, notes on
Nursing: What it is and What it is not, first published in England in 1859 and in the U. S.
in 1860, was intended for all women. Nightingale's vision of nursing, which included
public health and health promotion roles of nurses, was only partially addressed in the
early days of nursing. The focus tended to be on developing the profession within
hospitals.
Q2. What are the major concepts of Nightingale's Environmental Theory?
The major concepts of Florence Nightingale’s Theory are:
NURSING
Nightingale consider that each woman, at one time in her life, would be a nurse in the feel that
nursing is having the responsibility for any person else’s health. Nightingale wrote Notes on
Nursing to grant women with guidelines for providing nursing care and to supply advice on how
to “think like a nurse”.
PERSON
In most of her writing, Nightingale's referred to the person as a patient. Nurses carried out
tasks to and for the affected person and controlled the patient’s surroundings to decorate
recovery. For the most part. Nightingale described a passive affected person in this relationship.
However, there are precise references to the patient performing self-catering when feasible
and being worried in the timing and substance of meals. The nurses used to be in particular
steered to ask the patient about his or her preferences; however, Nightingale’s emphasised
that the nurse was once in manipulate of the sufferers environment.
HEALTH
Nightingale’s defined fitness as being nicely and the use of each and every energy that the
character has to the fullest extended. Additionally, she saw ailment as a reparative procedure
that nature instituted from a favor of attention. Nightingale’s predicted the preservation of
fitness through the prevention of disorder by using environmental control; what she described
is contemporary public health nursing and the greater modern-day thinking of health
promotion. She exceptional these concepts of health promotion. She extraordinary these
concepts of nursing as different from nursing a sick affected person to beautify restoration of
from residing better till death.
ENVIRONMENT
Fitzpatrich and Whall describe Nightingale’s notion of environment as these factor external to
and which have an effect on the health of the unwell and wholesome person and protected
everything from the patients meals and plant life to the patients verbal and nonverbal
interactions with the affected person “Little, if some thing in the patients world is excluded
from her definition of environment. Nightingale’s assumptions about societal conditions are
additionally applicable to her theory. She believed that nurses could be instrumental in
changing the social fame of the negative by using improving their living conditions.
Nightingale believed healthful surroundings were essential for acceptable nursing care and
healing. Environment used to be the foremost focus of Nightingale's theory. Environment was
defined through the "concepts of ventilation, warmth, light, cleanliness, diet and noise". She
believed ample lighting, nutritious food, applicable air flow and cleanliness had been crucial
aspects of environmental health.
Proper air flow and Warmth : Nightingale emphasized on ideal air flow as she believed air the
patient breathes can be a source of ailment and recovery. "Nurses were recommended to
manipulate the surroundings constantly to preserve ventilation and affected person heat by
means of the usage of a correct fire, opening windows and top positioning the affected person
in the room"
Adequate lighting : In her theory, Nightingale paid significance to the concept of mild ,
specially the sunlight. Hence in order "to reap really helpful effects of sunlight, nurses were
recommended to cross and position sufferers to expose them to sunlight"
Cleanliness : Cleanliness performed a crucial element of Nightingale's environmental idea
(Nightingale, 1969).To her even if the surroundings was nicely ventilated and had applicable
lighting, a dirty environment may want to act as a source of infection via the natural depend it
contained. Therefore, excessive emphasis used to be laid upon perfect handling and disposal of
bodily excretions and sewage. High importance used to be additionally given to acceptable and
usual hand washing between patient care.
Diet and Noise : Nightingale blanketed the ideas of quiet and weight-reduction plan in her
theory. She believed noises in the surrounding areas may want to damage the affected person
and must be avoided as possible. She used to be also worried about the patient's diet. She
"instructed nurses to determine now not only dietary consumption however additionally the
meal schedule and its effect on the patient"
Q3. Explain the conceptual framework of Nightingale’s Environmental Theory.

- Florence Nightingale environmental principle is based totally on five points, which
she believed to be essential to gain a healthy home, Suh as easy water and air,
primary sanitation, cleanliness and light, as she believed that a healthful
environment was essential for healing. This learn about was once anchored in
the Environmental mannequin via Florence Nightingale (1860). In her model,
nursing contributes to the potential of the individual to maintain and repair health
directly or circuitously thru managing the environment. Her work and
contributions altered the public fitness fame of many public hospitals until the
present day times. Her environmental principle of sanitation had radically
influenced and developed the roles of nurses worldwide. Nightingale’s most
tremendous strategy and method to be capable to enhance the fitness
stipulations of the patients had been to focus on the easy and right condition of
the environment. She believed that precise sanitation had a gorgeous influence
to a individual health. As a result, she had encouraged for fitness merchandising
and ailment prevention through building respectable housing project. In addition
she additionally made an effort to create smooth water materials for the
communities; for she knew many deaths had been precipitated by means of
water and airborne diseases. She also managed to improved peoples nutrition,
secure birthing practices for moms and infants, as properly as true infant caring
and rearing. She believed that there have been 5 quintessential factors in health
center exercise that include; pure air, pure water, appropriate drainage,
cleanliness and light. Her idea offers with the importance of smooth surroundings
and the entirety that people need in order to stay in a wholesome way
Q4. Give your thoughts about one of Florence Nightingale’s Assumptions that
states: A healthy environment is essential for healing. She stated that “nature
alone cures “.
- My thoughts about Florence Nightingale’s assumptions that states: A healthy
environment is essential for healing. She stated that “nature alone cures”. For me
in the field of nursing it is important for us to know how to be net and clean in
front of our patients cleanliness is a must. We should maintain having a clean
environment to avoid getting sick. In my own point of view Florence Nightingale’s
assumptions is telling that by optimizing our environmental health, the hospitals can
reduce exposure to disease, environmental health can improve life for every patients,
but may have the most pronounced effects among those who are already in vulnerable
health. We should have a healing environment that has a nurturing and therapeutic
effect. Hospitals environment can reduce pat9 anxiety and stress, reduce medication
use lessen pain, accelerate recovery, promote a sense of well-being, and shorten
hospitalizations. Nature alone cures, I have this habit that whenever I am stressed form
overload activities in school, having a family problem, failures, getting sick, I always went
to a place were very peaceful and alone, it makes me feel at ease and gives me comfort.
Exposure to nature not only makes you feel better emotionally, it contributes to your physical
wellbeing, reducing blood pressure, heart rate, muscle tension, and the production of stress
hormones.

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TAPIT, HONEYLYN C.

Q1. Who is Florence Nightingale?

Q2. What are the major concepts of Nightingale's Environmental Theory?

The major concepts of Florence Nightingale’s Theory are:

Q3. Explain the conceptual framework of Nightingale’s Environmental Theory.

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