Nursing Care in the Lance of Florence Nightingale

Zohra Asif Jetha*
*Student, Aga Khan University School of Nursing and Midwifery, Karachi, Pakistan.
Periodicity:November - January'2015
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jnur.4.4.3077

Abstract

The word ‘care’ is very much associated with nursing profession, because Nurses are not only responsible to facilitate in curative care. However, they are also responsible to provide holistic care and healthy environment to promote patient recovery. This paper is discussed in the light of Florence Nightingale's theory on environment in the relation of concepts in nursing practices. Her theory has more of a focus on health promotion than a curative focus. She has focused in her theory four main assumptions, for example, Nursing, Person, Health and environment and their association with each other. A small effort by a nurse can help to improve the patient's health and decrease the burden of disease.

Keywords

Nurse, Environment, Health Promotion, Nursing Practice, Holistic Care.

How to Cite this Article?

Jetha, Z.A. (2015). Nursing Care in the Lance of Florence Nightingale. i-manager’s Journal on Nursing, 4(4), 32-36. https://doi.org/10.26634/jnur.4.4.3077

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