Nightingale’s philosophy is based on three domains healing, leadership and global action (Selanders, Louise C, & Crane, Patrick, 2012). However, her priority was essentially on the patient and the environment in which nurses manipulate the environment to improve patient recovery (Dossey, 2002). To Nightingale, nurses needed to be involved in health promotion and health teaching with the ill patient and with healthy individuals. She didn’t agree that nurses were meant to be inferior to physicians, but she considered nursing as an independent profession (book). Even though nightingale’s philosophy was about the environment, she also believed that a holistic care should be included. Therefore, for the patient to gain …show more content…
She believed that one’s personal internal environment and the influence of the physical and external environment worked together. Nightingale prioritized that proper ventilation, fresh air, cleanliness of rooms and walls of hospitals and homes, clean water will increase the person health (Dossey, 2002). She also talked about that proper nutrition for the patient should be considered such as what type of food and when and what should be consume (Dossey, 2002). Nightingale explain that clan environment will lead to an inner or interior state of peace and comfort increasing the person’s healing process and well-being (Dossey, …show more content…
She expressed that are general conditions to lead to health and always include the interpersonal process. Peplau explains that in this concept that relationship is unique between the nurse and the patient (pdf).
Nursing
As mentioned before Nightingale expressed that the profession of nursing was a calling and believes that the nurse is the one who places the patient in the best condition for nature to act (Dossey, 2002). She states that nursing was service to God and to the humanity with the purpose to created heaven on the Earth. Nightingale transmitted to other nurses that service to God could be their strength and guidance that will help them to work and act upon circumstances (Dossey, 2002).
In contrast, Peplau’s theory describes nursing as the combination of education and therapeutic process. She believed that these combinations enable nurses and patient develop skills for problem solving (pdf). Consequently, nurses engage in the organization of conditions that promote natural ongoing tendencies in human organisms