The individual receiving nursing care (Masters, 2011).
“A dynamic and complex being” (Bolton, 2014, p.85).
According to Nightingale, “Health is not only to be well, but to be able to use well every power we have” (as cited in Bolton, 2014, p. 85)
Nightingale believed that health is not only a lack of illness but it also includes working toward preventing illness through health promotion and prevention (Bolton, 2014). Environment consists of physical and psychological components that can be altered to promote patient healing (Bolton, 2014).
Nightingale states that the physical components include: ventilation, warmth, light, nutrition, medicine, stimulation, room temperature, activity (as cited in Bolton, …show more content…
106).
Health is viewed as a subjective experience, it varies person to person.
Life involves adapting, coping, and growing.
According to Watson, health and illness function simultaneously as a way to stabilize and balance one’s life (as cited in Jesse & Alligood, 2014). Watson stated that the “Nurse IS the environment” (as cited in Jesse & Alligood, 2014, p. 107).
In one of Watson’s caritas processes, she describes that nurses should create an environment that will heal individuals not only physically, but also non-physically (mind and spirit) (Jesse & Alligood, 2014).
The environment should be planned intentionally to promote the healing of patients; examples are: quiet, beautiful views, and favorite music and colors (Jesse & Alligood, 2014).
The environment should promote “harmony, wholeness, and comfort” (Masters, 2011, p. 52). Nursing is a transpersonal (goes beyond the person) experience that focuses on the patient’s view of health and illness (Jesse & Alligood, 2014).
Nursing goal is to help persons achieve a greater degree of harmony within the mind, body and spirit (Jesse & Alligood,