Relating Nightengales theory

Relating Nightingale’s Theory
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Relating Nightingale’s Theory
The Nightingale’s theory focuses on the medical environment with respect to effective and quality care for the patients. The theory puts into view the external factors that impact the surroundings of patients on their medical status and recovery. It also puts into view the roles of nurses in managing the environment for the benefit of patients’ safety (Norman, 2013). The theory views nursing as different from medicine whereby effective nursing entails alteration of the patient’s environment and a unique form of educational foundation (Norman, 2013). The analysis focuses on associating Nightingale’s theory with particular roles and applications that connect the theory to education, research and practice.
The theory contains four major concepts that include the person, the environment, health, and nursing. The environment involves physical elements that include cleanliness of patients’ facilities, lighting, ventilation, noise, water, sanitation, beddings, and the food taken by patients. On the specific application of the theory, effective nursing involves assessing a patient’s environment with respect to the physical elements mentioned above (Ali Pirani, 2016). The person refers to the individuals with the need of nursing care. On application, it puts into view assessing the patient’s social and physical environment that may affect his or her well-being. For example, the nurse may assess a patient’s living conditions to check whether they contribute to his or her medical condition and research on how the conditions may be improved to ensure recovery (Ali Pirani, 2016).

Health puts into view improving the patient’s medical condition and the patient having the capacity to take part in the healing process. On application, it involves methods such as educating the patients on issues such as maintaining a healthy diet, drinking cleaning water, and taking necessary medications to facilitate the healing process. The last aspect, nursing, is viewed from two perspectives. The first perspective involves general nursing whereby the nurse engages in the activities highlighted in the environment construct while the second perspective involves proper nursing that entails nurses educated in the science and art of nursing (Awalkhan & Muhammad, 2016). On application, it puts into view effectively applying the nursing process through the integration of evidence-based practice.
As stated earlier, the analysis focuses on associating Nightingale’s theory with particular roles and applications that connect the theory to education, research and practice. Application of the theory involves the four main constructs that include the person, the environment, health, and nursing. It can be viewed that the application of the theory into the nursing practice enables the holistic care of patients.
References
Ali Pirani S.S. (2016). Application of Nightingale’s Theory in Nursing Practice. Annals of Nursing and Practice, 3(1), 1-3.
Awalkhan, A., & Muhammad, D. (2016). Application of Nightingale Nursing Theory to the Care of Patient with Colostomy. European Journal of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, 2(6), 97-101.
Norman, I. (2013). The nursing practice environment. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 50(12), 1577-1579.