Florence Nightingale Flashcards
What is Nightingale’s Theory?
(ENVIRONMENTAL THEORY)
ABOUT HER:
History of theory development started
SHE IS THE FIRST? [EQUAL RIGHTS TO VOTE]
First to exert political pressure on government.
CRIMEAN WAR
(1854-1856) “The Lady with the Lamp”
First nurse scientist-theorist, who published?
“Notes on Nursing: What It is and What it is not? (1860)
were just wives to their husbands and children.
Victorian Middle Class Women
image arose in the latter part of 19th century because of work of Florence Nightingale in the Crimean.
Guardian Angel or Angel of Mercy
image arising in the early 19th century ; this image evolved when women had yet to obtain the right to vote;
Doctor’s handmaiden
evolved from nurses acts of bravery during World War II
Heroine
Her main idea……
“What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him”.
“Humans in relation to….
the environment and the impact of the environment on them”.
“Disease is a reparative….
process or nature’s way to remedy a process of
poisoning or decay”.
Physical environment focusing on…
ventilation, warmth, noise, light and cleanliness
________ is positive; _________is negative.
HEALTH, PATHOLOGY
In the preparation of a nurse.
Formal education is needed
