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MODEL OF NURSING
Florence Nightingale
Learning Objectives:
After completing this chapter, the student should be able to:
Identify the 13 canons of nursing as proposed by
Nightingale.
Explain the major concepts important to nursing as
defined by Nightingale.
Plane nursing care for a patient scenario to utilizing
Nightingales 13 canons of nursing care.
BACKGROUND:
Florence Nightingale was born on May 12-1820. She was active
in aristocratic society but believed that her life could be more
useful. She was obsessed with poverty, disease, and suffering of
the masses. She believed that she was called of God to be a
nurse.
At the age of 25, she had a desired to become a nurse but her
parents refused that. Nightingale announced to her family that
she planned to return Kaiserwerth to study nursing. Finally, at the
age of 31, Nightingale was permitted to travel back to Kaiserwerth
where she learned about the care of the sick and the importance
of discipline and commitment to God.
BACKGROUND:
In 1853 she removed to London. During the Crimean War,
her work proved successful in decreasing the mortality rate.
Upon her return home she eventually began that
Nightingale School of Nursing at St. Thomas its founding
marked the beginning of professional nursing. She
expressed her views about nursing in many format. She
wrote many letters, books, pamphlets, and government
reports. She published Notes on Nursing.
The thirteen canons for Nightingale theory were not all board or
general. She believed that nursing is a calling from Gad. Because
patients have some spiritual dimension, nurse is expected to care
for patients spiritual need during spiritual distress. Involving the
nurse in health promotion and health teaching was an idea that
Nightingale believed in. Her environmental theory for nursing was
a changing point in the modern nursing science, which include
four metaparadigms that define nursing:
The person: she defines it simply as the recipient of nursing care.
The person has a relationship with the environment, also the
environment has impact on his or her health status.
Person
Environment
medication)
Health
not only to be well, but to use well every power we have to use
To alter or manage the environment to implement the natural laws of
nursing
health
Videos
1) Health, Environment and Nursing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3sugUMVAPk
2) Example of Nightingale's theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4JQ2EoNcbY
Any Questions
THANK YOU
Wounds heal. Love lasts. We
remain.
Florence Nightingale
References
Dr. Edith Claros, P. Kimberly Foisy, and P. Teresa Dean.