Nursing Theories: Florence Nightingale
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Components of Nightingale's Philosophy - Answer Environment
Person
Health
Nursing
Environment - Answer Focuses on the manipulation of physical and social factors that affect health and
illness.
Anything that can be manipulated to place a patient in the best possible condition for nature to act.
Nightingale viewed the physical environment as a critical component in health and disease.
Nature would bring healing
Person - Answer The recipient of care
She believe that a person is a dynamic and complex being, comprising physical, intellectual, emotional,
social, and spiritual components.
Holistic individual
Health - Answer Not only to be well, but to be able to use every power we have, well.
She believed in prevention and promotion of health in addition to caring patients from illness to health.
Nursing - Answer View nursing as a spiritual calling
Nurses are to assist nature in promoting health.
Nurses were to use common sense, observation, and ingenuity to allow nature to effectively repair the
patient.
Study Guide Exam And Correct
Answers.
Components of Nightingale's Philosophy - Answer Environment
Person
Health
Nursing
Environment - Answer Focuses on the manipulation of physical and social factors that affect health and
illness.
Anything that can be manipulated to place a patient in the best possible condition for nature to act.
Nightingale viewed the physical environment as a critical component in health and disease.
Nature would bring healing
Person - Answer The recipient of care
She believe that a person is a dynamic and complex being, comprising physical, intellectual, emotional,
social, and spiritual components.
Holistic individual
Health - Answer Not only to be well, but to be able to use every power we have, well.
She believed in prevention and promotion of health in addition to caring patients from illness to health.
Nursing - Answer View nursing as a spiritual calling
Nurses are to assist nature in promoting health.
Nurses were to use common sense, observation, and ingenuity to allow nature to effectively repair the
patient.
