Florence Nightingale - Theoretical Sources of the Environmental Theory

Florence Nightingale’s Environmental Theory

Florence Nightingale (1820–1910)
  • Known as the Lady with the Lamp, providing care to wounded and ill soldiers during the Crimean War
  • Considered the founder of educated and scientific nursing
  • Wrote the first nursing notes “Notes on Nursing: What it is, What is not” (1860) that became the basis of nursing practice and research.
  • Considered the first nursing theorist.
  • One of her theories was the Environmental Theory, which incorporated the restoration of the usual health status of the nurse's clients into the delivery of health care which is still practiced today.

Theoretical Sources of the Environmental Theory
  • Education: Nightingale is a very good mathematician (a nurse statistician) and a philosopher.
  • Literature: Dicken's novel "The Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit", a novel that portrays a victorian drunken, untrained and inexpert nurse causes a stigma and bad impressions about nurses. The novel greatly affects her beliefs about being a nurse and pursue the battle to change the negative stigma about nurses.
  • Intellectuals: Political leaders greatly affected and influenced her beliefs of changing things as she viewed as unacceptable to society.
  • Religious Beliefs: For Nightingale, an action for the benefit of others is called "God's Calling". DUM VIVIMUS, SERVIMUS. Theoretical Sources of the Environmental Theory
  • Use of Empirical Evidence: She uses the polar diagram (statistical diagram) in her reports, books and letters.
  • She highlighted the use of observation and the performance of tasks in the nursing education. Theoretical Sources of the Environmental Theory

References :

www.wikipedia.com
http://slsu- coam.blogspot.com/2008/08/nightingales- environmental-theory.html
www.currentnursing.com
Tomey, A.M., (1994). Nursing Theorists and Their Work. 3rd ed. Missouri: Mosby

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