Theory Evaluation Exemplar Environmental Theory of Florence Nightingale Theory Description Scope of theory:Grand Theory Purpose of the theory:“everyday sanitary knowledge‚ or the knowledge of nursing‚ or in other words‚ of how to put the constitution in such a state as that it will have no disease‚ or that it can recover from disease.” * Main focus was the control of the environment of individuals and families‚ both healthy and ill. * Because it explains the totality of the behavior.
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Florence Nightingale: The Founder of Modern Nursing Abstract Florence Nightingale believed that the nursing profession was “God’s calling” for her. Regardless‚ of the reputation that nurses had. Hospitals were dirty‚ smelly‚ overcrowded places that were full of diseases. Her focus was on the patients ’ health. She realized that once the patients were clean and genuinely cared for‚ their health improved. She made sure that the hospitals were clean. In which helped diseases from spreading
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Abstract Florence Nightingale can be titled the pioneer of the nursing profession. Her theory of the impact of the environment to human health created history and is still used today. Her focus is on making a clean‚ healthy‚ calming environment to promote a fast and productive recovery. After Florence Nightingale came up with her theory she based a school of nursing on it. This nursing theory is very important even in today’s healthcare system. In this essay I will describe Florence Nightingales theory
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Florence Nightingale was born on May 12‚ 1820 in Florence‚ Italy. She came from a wealthy family. As a child she had a vivid imagination‚ was considered a dreamer and often dreamed of helping others. Nightingale was well educated‚ a benefit of her family’s wealth and her fathers belief in education‚ even for women. She studied all of the basic subjects‚ such as history‚ math‚ philosophy‚ science‚ music and art. She also learned five different languages. At a very young age she discovered
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of the murdered men and while I live I shall fight their cause.” These words‚ spoken by Florence Nightingale‚ very neatly sum up her life`s ambitions. She was born on May 12‚ 1820‚ into a family of “new money” which was trying to fit in with Victorian society‚ where working was considered undignified and women were supposed to be frail. Florence went against these rules and went on to seek a career in nursing‚ despite her family’s disapproval. Up to that time nurses had mostly been religious‚ monastic
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Nursing Theorist Grid Theorist Selected: Florence Nightingale Description of Theory: Nightingale was the first to publish her theory in 1860 about the importance of the environment on the patient and healing. The patient in connection with the environment‚ air‚ temperature‚ light‚ water and remaining clean that contribute to the healing process (Parker‚ 2006). Her theory also states that it is the nurses calling to assist the patient to place him or her in the best conditions for
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Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) Florence Nightingale is the founder of modern nursing. She transformed nursing into a respectable profession and set the standards for clean‚ safe hospitals in the world. Florence is honored as the first great nurse of the world. Her picture hangs on the wall in many hospitals. Florence Nightingale was born on May 12‚ 1820‚ in Florence‚ Italy. She was named Florence after her city of birth. Florence’s sister was born in Naples and is named Parthenope. Parthenope
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Florence Nightingale “The Lady with the Lamp”‚ the soldiers referred to her as during the Crimean War‚ as she made rounds in the dark checking on the wounded. Florence Nightingale became the founder of modern nursing practices‚ reformed the British military health care system‚ and reformed hospitals sanitation methods. Nightingale saw her purpose and mission in life on a large scale. She wanted to serve humanity by preventing the many needless deaths and illnesses that occurred. With the fierce
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Abstract On her death in 1910‚ Florence Nightingale left a vast collection of reports‚ letters‚ notes and other written material. There are numerous publications that make use of this material‚ often highlighting Florence’s attitude to a particular issue. In this paper we gather a set of quotations and construct a dialogue with Florence Nightingale on the subject of statistics. Our dialogue draws attention to strong points of connection between Florence Nightingale’s use of statistics and modern
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Area Diagrams of Florence Nightingale If you read the article on Florence Nightingale in “The Children’s Book of Famous Lives”1 you will not learn that she had to battle with her parents to be allowed to study Mathematics. If you read the Ladybird book “Florence Nightingale”2 you will not discover that she was the first woman to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. In looking around for an area of research I was intrigued to discover that Florence Nightingale‚ who I always thought
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