Chapter 1
Chapter 1
The provided sources detail Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory of Nursing, highlighting her biographical background, the specific components of her theory, and her enduring legacy in the nursing profession.
Biographical Background
Biographical Background
Florence Nightingale, eighteen twenty to nineteen ten, felt a divine calling to serve, eventually choosing nursing despite her aristocratic upbringing. She trained in Germany and rose to prominence during the Crimean War, where she drastically improved the dire sanitary conditions for wounded soldiers, earning the title "The Lady of the Lamp." Post-war, she founded modern nursing education at St. Thomas's Hospital and advocated for widespread social and health reforms.