Republic of the Philippines

CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY

Don Severino de las Alas Campus
Indang, Cavite

REFLECTION PAPER
Topic: Purposes of Nursing Theory, Nursing Paradigm, and Florence Nightingale

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in

Theoretical Foundations of Nursing (NURS01)

SUBMITTED TO:

SIR JAY LOUIE S. MADLANGBAYAN, RN, CCN

NURS 01, Instructor

SUBMITTED BY:

ALEXANDRA NICOLE E. RIVERA

BSN X-1, Student

Date:

September 5, 2018
 TOPIC: Purposes of Nursing Theory, Nursing Paradigm, and Florence Nightingale

We tackle about nursing theory. The purposes of nursing theory in Education, Research,

and Clinical Practice. And also the paradigm of nursing the 4 nursing paradigm concept. First is

the person second is health third is environment/situation and fourth is Nursing. We also discuss

the modern nursing which is an art and a science involving the application of knowledge and skills

are related to basic social science, physical science, ethics, contemporary issues and nursing

knowledge. One of the founder of modern nursing is Florence Nightingale that was born on May

12, 1820 in Florence, Italy and died on UK in the age of 90. She was knowns as “the lady with

the lamp” because she was doing the night rounds among injured.

Nursing is caring. I learned that nursing is a divine calling. We should not only focus on

sick patient also in well patient. Serving patient is very important because we as a nursing students

we should promote health, share some knowledge to other people and help other people without

expecting anything in return.

Florence nightingale theory is extremely important in learning nursing because her theory

give us an additional knowledge, skills and good attitude that help us to educate the patient on

how they should balance and manage their healthy lifestyle. Her theory is focusing on nursing

paradigm concept that can give us a comfortable environment or place such as ventilation, warmth,

light, diet, cleanliness, and noise. Which are very important not only to the patient but for us.

ALEXANDRA NICOLE E. RIVERA

201813316

ASSIGNMENT NO. 1
WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF VENTILATION, WARMTH, LIGHT, DIET,

CLEANLINESS AND NOISE?

 Ventilation - ventilation is critical to home comfort. Proper ventilations prevent air

pollutants from affecting the health of our family having airflow can get rid of any

unwanted smell.

 Warming - patients warming can lead to better clinical results. Prevention of serious

complication can be found by maintaining norm thermic by pre-warming patients before

surgery and continuing by pre warming methods during the procedure. Light- light impacts

human health and performance by enabling performance of visual tasks, controlling the

body’s circadian system, affecting mood and perception and by enabling critical chemical

reactions in the body.

 Diet - good nutrition is an important part pf leading a healthy lifestyle. Combined with

physical activity, your diet can help you to reach and maintain a healthy weight, reduce

your risk of chronic diseases

 Cleanliness - patient’s perceptions of a hospital cleanliness can have a major impact in

their overall care and hospital experience, according to a new study. Specifically, the data

show correlations between patient’s perceptions of room cleanliness.

 Noise - noise defined as unwanted sounds could affect both psychologically with reported

negative effects including cardiovascular stimulation, hearing loss, increased gastric

secretion pituitary and adrenal gland stimulation. The world health organization

recommended that noise level inside hospital wards should not exceed at night in termed

of sleep disturbance.