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Florence Nightingale was born in 1820 in Italy. She was also known as “Lady with the Lamp”, the reason being that she was the pioneer of the modernistic nursing (Selanders, 2015). She had certainty in herself that healing to her was a calling from God. In the very few words possible, Florence Nightingale based her philosophy that apart from spirituality and physiological conditions determining of health disease matters, the change in environmental and health disease treatment plays a vital role. She bases her argument that an assessment of a disease whether at home or a public hospital, most experienced patient observers or nurses got hit with the realization that the sufferings and symptoms of the illness are often not because of the disease but a want for a conducive environment: good lighting, clean and fresh air, warmth, quiet atmosphere, clean surrounding, balanced diet among others (Selanders, 2015).

Some of the ways in which Florence Nightingale’s model of care is applied in current nursing practice include the control and interception of tuberculosis. This is because based on her ideology communicable diseases could be diffused through the air that we regularly breathe. Therefore, as a measure that is to be observed, it is advisable to keep clean the environment to have clean air. Furthermore, overcrowding is to be avoided since in any case one is infested with tuberculosis, and then any other person within the gathering is at risk of contracting the disease. Another application of that model of nursing is that on advocacy by attaching caring and activism. It promotes flaunting, tormenting and unbalancing of the social power that put people in the state of disease while concurrently developing caring (McCrae, 2012).

The most critical factor of Nightingale’s theory that nurses commonly use in the current practice is the concept of nursing whereby the patient is placed in the best available condition for nature to act during recovery (McCrae, 2012).

References

Hanks, R. G. (2005, July). Sphere of nursing advocacy model. In Nursing Forum Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 75-78). Blackwell Publishing Inc.

McCrae, N. (2012). Whither Nursing Models? The value of nursing theory in the context of evidence‐based practice and multidisciplinary health care. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 68(1), 222-229.

Selanders, L. (2015). Florence Nightingale. The evolution.