NUR 601 Week 1 Discussion 2: Applying Florence Nightingale’s Theory to Your Life

NUR 601 Week 1 Discussion 2: Applying Florence Nightingale’s Theory to Your Life

Florence Nightingale was a 19th century nurse that changed the entire nursing profession. Her biggest accomplishment is her innovation in infection prevention during the Crimean War. I will describe two ways that Nightingale’s theory can be applied to both hospital settings, as well as the environment overall.
Contemporary infection control is now an integral part of nursing practice. It is an essential part of creating safe environments that help to promote good healing, good health and wellbeing and good patient outcomes. (Gilbert 2020). Eliminating central-line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are at the forefront of nursing care today. In recent years, hospitals and medical institutions have decided that these serious infections are not acceptable, and changes need to be made in order to prevent them. Nightingale believed that the 5 essential points of achieving a healthful house were pure air, pure water, efficient drainage, cleanliness, and light. (McEwen et al. 2018). As nurses, and future nurse practitioners we need to educate our patients about hand washing and basic infection prevention. By using proper cleaning techniques such as washing our hands or wearing gloves when we access central lines, the rate of infection decreases. Additionally, Florence Nightingale used metrics and evidenced based practice, and encouraged others to do the same. While we remind people to wash their hands, nurses are right in front of the sick, caring for the sick, while gathering the data, assessing the evidence, and always keeping the patient at the center. (Johnson 2020). By continuing to look at data and revise proper practice and procedure guidelines for infection control, there will be better patient outcomes.
In the movie trailer, An Inconvenient Truth, by Al Gore, he discusses how global warming is having a detrimental impact on our planet. Florence Nightingale put the patient and their safety first. To address this major environmental issue, it is time that our society puts the planet first, since the planet is “sick”. We need to work together to find solutions in order to create a sustainable and healthy living environment. We can achieve this by looking back at Nightingale’s basic principles of pure air and water, efficient drainage, and more.

References:

Gilbert, H. A. (2020). Florence Nightingale’s Environmental Theory and its influence on contemporary infection control. Collegian, 27(6), 626–633.

Johnson, I. (2020). Florence Nightingale (Statistician and Infection Control Nurse) Would Be Proud of this Workforce. Colorado Nurse, 120(2), 12.
McEwen, M., & Wills, E. M. (2018). Theoretical basis for nursing. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.

NU 601 Week 1 Discussion 2: Applying Florence Nightingale’s Theory to Your Life

Value: Complete at 100/Incomplete at 0

Due: In an effort to facilitate scholarly discourse, create your initial post by Day 3, and reply to at least two of your classmates, on two separate days, by Day 7.

Gradebook Category: Discussions

Note: In this type of discussion, you will not see the responses of your classmates until after you have posted your own response to the question below.

Initial Post

Please respond to the following prompts:

• Choose one patient care problem (for example, adolescents at the end of life) and describe two ways you can apply Nightingale’s theory to the concept of environment.
• View the trailer of, which is a movie by former Vice President Al Gore. How can you use Nightingale’s theory to address this major environmental problem?

Your initial post should contain two- to three- paragraphs with three- to four- sentences per paragraph. The post should integrate a minimum of three readings and/or other evidence-based research articles no more than three years old and use APA formatting for the citations and references.

Important information for writing discussion questions and participation

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Your initial discussion post should be a minimum of 200 words and response posts should be a minimum of 150 words. Be advised that I grade based on quality and not necessarily the number of words you post. A minimum of TWO references should be used for your initial post. For your response post, you do not need references as personal experiences would count as response posts. If you however cite anything from the literature for your response post, it is required that you cite your reference. You should include a minimum of THREE references for papers in this course. Please note that references should be no more than 5 years old except recommended as a resource for the class. Furthermore, for each discussion board question, you need ONE initial substantive response and TWO substantive responses to either your classmates or your instructor for a total of THREE responses. There are TWO discussion questions each week, hence, you need a total minimum of SIX discussion posts for each week. I usually post a discussion question each week. You could also respond to these as it would count towards your required SIX discussion posts for the week.

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Important information on Writing a Discussion Question

• Your response needs to be a minimum of 150 words (not including your list of references)
• There needs to be at least TWO references with ONE being a peer reviewed professional journal article.
• Include in-text citations in your response
• Do not include quotes—instead summarize and paraphrase the information
• Follow APA-7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

Participation –replies to your classmates or instructor

• A minimum of 6 responses per week, on at least 3 days of the week.
• Each response needs at least ONE reference with citations—best if it is a peer reviewed journal article
• Each response needs to be at least 75 words in length (does not include your list of references)
• Responses need to be substantive by bringing information to the discussion or further enhance the discussion. Responses of “I agree” or “great post” does not count for the word count.
• Follow APA 7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

• Remember to use and follow APA-7th edition for all weekly assignments, discussion questions, and participation points.
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Reply Posts

Reply to at least two of your classmates. In your reply posts, recommend how your peers can further address the major environmental problem and political issue they described, using a minimum of two scholarly references formatted per APA style.

Please refer to the for details on how this activity will be graded. The described expectations meet the passing level of 80 percent.

Posting to the Discussion Forum

1. Select the appropriate Thread.
2. Select Reply.
3. Create your post.
4. Select Post to Forum.

A patient care problem that we face is homeless patients and proper care for wounds. Homeless patients often come into the hospital, and have wounds from improper care and sanitation issues. As many people are homeless in certain areas of the country, they do not always have access to clean water or the proper dressings for wounds. Not only this, but they lack access to care such as home health aides or nursing assistants to come to their homes due to lack of insurance and lack of housing. This is a huge problem in this country because when wounds are not properly treated, it leads to infection, sepsis, and even death in these populations.
Nightingale’s theory deduced that cleanliness, fresh air, sanitation, comfort and socialization were necessary to healing (McEwen & Wills, 2019). If patients even in this day and age are unable to access those resources, they would have trouble restoring health, and be unable to cure their diseases or injuries. According to Mathewson-Chapman et al (2021), Nightingale promoted a holistic point of view, caring for the whole patient with disease prevention and health promotion at the heart of her care. This is important as we focus on the environment that can heal and promote health compared to an environment that can in turn harm us.
The YouTube video of “An Inconvenient Truth Trailer” (Lazo, 2007) related to Nightingales theories as there is a connection between health and the environment. As the holistic approach describes that if we do not take care of our environmental health and our earthly surroundings, we are hurting ourselves. Health hazards as described in the video such as pollution, and toxic emissions lead to global warming for our earth, but they can also cause long term issues in patients such as COPD and even lung cancer with long term exposure. It is important to take the holistic approach when caring for patients, as well as taking into consideration their outside variables.

References
Lazo, Tiffany. (March 20, 2007). An Inconvenient Truth Trailer. [Video]. YouTube.

Mathewson-Chapman, M., Chapman, H., & Chapman, H. J. (2021). Florence Nightingale’s leadership in community health nursing practice: using a holistic lens. Perspectives in Public Health, 141(1), 17–18.
McEwen, M., & Wills, E. (2019). Theoretical Basis for Nursing Practice (5th ed.). Wolters Kluwer Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.