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• Morality, lack of prejudice and acceptance of facts was the reason a woman turned down a marriage proposal when she was 17 years old.
• The theory that facilitates the body’s reparative processes by manipulating the client’s environment and that the role of the nurse was to place the client in the best condition for nature to act upon him was described by Hildegard Peplau.
• Her environmental model focuses on the manipulation of physical and social factors that affect health and illness.
• Florence Nightingale viewed the physical environment as a critical component in both health and illness.
• The central focus of Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory is holistic patient care.
• Environmental factors affecting the client’s health which in any deficiency could lead to impaired functioning of life processes or diminished health status based on Florence Nightingale include: air, water, light, and cleanliness.
• The 12 Canons of Florence Nightingale include ventilation and warmth, cleanliness, health of houses, and noise.
• The health care provider will not be affected since they go home every day.
• Florence Nightingale's theory emphasizes that a healthy environment because nature alone cures.
• According to Florence Nightingale, a clean and well-ventilated environment in healthcare settings prevents patients from feeling lonely, minimizes the spread of infections, encourages patients to socialize, and enhances patients' spiritual well-being.
• Florence Nightingale viewed the role of education for nurses as crucial for professional development.
• Nurses should ensure that the patient's ventilation, warmth, light, diet, cleanliness and silence of the environment are secured.
• One of the nurses' roles according to Florence Nightingale's theory in patient care is to manipulate the physical environment.
• The healing environment that promotes patient recovery is also known as a therapeutic milieu or Millieu Therapy.
• Cleanliness is a crucial aspect of nursing care, as stated in Abdellah's 21 Nursing Problems.
• The relationship between a patient's environment and health outcomes is indirect influence.
• Florence Nightingale emphasized the importance of nurse-patient interactions, stating that nurses should provide emotional support, monitor vital signs, and interpret laboratory results.
• Janitorial services personnel should bear in mind that this is their domain.
• According to Faye Abdellah's theory, nursing is defined as assisting the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to a peaceful death).
• Faye Abdellah emphasizes the delivery of nursing care for the whole person to meet the physical, emotional, intellectual, social and spiritual needs of the client and the family.
• Environmental health is crucial to promote patient health, with cleanliness and efficient drainage being essential components.
• Health is not damaged by the elements of the environment if these are considered.
• Health is still stable provided medications are religiously administered.
• Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory emphasizes holistic patient care and the manipulation of the physical environment.
• Variety in nursing includes transferring the patient to other rooms periodically, allowing the patient to go out on a day pass for him to go to the mall, encouraging the family members to engage the patient in stimulating activities, and variety of nurses assigned to the patient everyday.
• The most appropriate reason the patient’s bed should be kept at its lowest height is for the patient’s safety.
• The outcomes of Florence Nightingale in nursing is to actively assist the patients especially if the patient could not fulfill his/her needs.
• The nurse participating at a health fair at the local mall giving influenza vaccinations to senior citizens is practicing secondary prevention.
• Quarterly prevention is represented when one attends a seminar on healthy lifestyle.
• Based on Betty Neuman’s prevention levels, primary prevention focuses on foreseeing the result of an act or situation and preventing its unnecessary effects if possible.
• In Neuman’s System Model, the client system is a composite of five variables, one of which is factors/variables which refers to age-related processes and activities that the client is experiencing.
• Blood sugar monitoring for patients with diabetes mellitus is a part of the tertiary prevention level.
• The flexible line of defense represents a stability state for the individual or system, maintained over time and serves as a standard to assess deviations from the client’s usual wellness.
• Secondary prevention is best described when a patient submits self for a cardiac rehabilitation after an open heart surgery.
• In the Neuman’s Systems Model, the flexible line of defense is a defense system that includes variables and behaviors such as the individual’s usual coping patterns, lifestyles and developmental stages.
• External variables influencing a patient's health practices can include difficulty paying bills, seeing a pastor for support, family practice of not routinely seeing a healthcare provider, and stress from divorce and loss of a job.
• Quarterly prevention is represented when a patient submits self for cholesterol screening to detect increase in cholesterol and prevent a heart disease.
• Regular exercise, avoiding smoking and alcoholism, and having a healthy diet and lifestyle are in the primary prevention level.
• Secondary prevention involves a home health care nurse visiting a patient's home to change a wound dressing.
• Tertiary prevention aims to strengthen the capacity of a person to maintain an optimum level of functioning while being interactive with the environment.