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  2. Nightingale's environmental theory - Wikipedia

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    She stated in her nursing notes that nursing "is an act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery" (Nightingale 1860/1969), [2] that it involves the nurse's initiative to configure environmental settings appropriate for the gradual restoration of the patient's health, and that external factors associated with the patient's surroundings affect life or biologic ...

  3. Healing environments - Wikipedia

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    Since then, many studies have followed, showing impact of several environmental factors on several health outcomes. [5] Today, the philosophy that guides the concept of the healing environment is rooted in research in the neurosciences, environmental psychology, psychoneuroimmunology, and evolutionary biology. The common thread linking these ...

  4. Levine's conservation model for nursing - Wikipedia

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    The conservation model of nursing is based around the law of conservation of energy, combined with the psycho-social aspects of the individual's needs. Levine believed that these needs are joined within the individual as a "cascade of life events, churning and changing as the environmental challenge is confronted and resolved in each individual ...

  5. Adaptation model of nursing - Wikipedia

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    The nurse may need to manipulate the environment, an element or elements of the client system, or both in order to promote adaptation. [3] Many nurses, as well as schools of nursing, have adopted the Roy adaptation model as a framework for nursing practice.

  6. Nursing theory - Wikipedia

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    The nursing metaparadigm consist of four main concepts: person, health, environment, and nursing. [12] The person (Patient) The environment; Health; Nursing (Goals, Roles Functions) Each theory is regularly defined and described by a nursing theorist. The main focal point of nursing out of the four various common concepts is the person (patient ...

  7. Holistic nursing - Wikipedia

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    Holistic nursing is a way of treating and taking care of the patient as a whole body, which involves physical, social, environmental, psychological, cultural and religious factors. There are many theories that support the importance of nurses approaching the patient holistically and education on this is there to support the goal of holistic ...

  8. Clinical Care Classification System - Wikipedia

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    A nursing care component is defined as a cluster of elements that represents a unique pattern of clinical care nursing practice; namely, Health Behavioral, Functional, Physiological, and Psychological. Nursing Diagnoses: A clinical judgment about the healthcare consumer's response to actual or potential health conditions or needs.

  9. Roper–Logan–Tierney model of nursing - Wikipedia

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    Nancy Roper, when interviewed by members of the Royal College of Nursing's (RCN) Association of Nursing Students at RCN Congress in 2002 in Harrogate [5] stated that the greatest disappointment she held for the use of the model in the UK was the lack of application of the five factors listed below, citing that these are the factors which make ...