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 abou