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Discussion questions:

Florence Nightingale was one of nursing's greatest pioneers in holistic nursing using your Dossey book and readings:

• Compare and contrast the theories and principles of Florence Nightingale’s and Jean Watson’s work. Discuss their impact on the global field of Nursing.

• What attributes do I have that reflect the core values of holistic nursing? Give examples of environmental patterning.

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Answer 1

1. Nightingale's theory is emphatic on the traditional and conventional medical model of nursing whileWatson's model is anchored on the humanistic values related to nursing where caring is the central focus.According to Watson, caring is central to nursing practice, and promotes health better than a simple medical cure. She believes that a holistic approach to health care is central to the practice of caring in nursing. According to her theory, caring can be demonstrated and practiced by nurses.
2. Upholding Watson's caring theory not only allows the nurse to practice the art of caring, to provide compassion to ease patients' and families' suffering, and to promote their healing and dignity but it can also contribute to expand the nurse's own actualization.
Nightingale's concepts of theory are brief, simple and easy to understand. It is still applicable to practice today. It makes the nurses to work more efficiently by using their own intuition about patient care and modification of environment.
Not only did she improve the standards of the nursing profession, she also enhanced the hospitals in which they worked. While working in a filthy facility during the Crimean War, Nightingale made recommendations for sanitary improvements and established standards for clean and safe hospitals.Nightingale was also a teacher of nurses and encouraged others to become nurses. Nursing became an honorable profession. Through her efforts, she allowed young women to recognize the importance of nursing and the profession. She encouraged women to join the profession and taught them both in classes and at the bedside.
3. The educational preparation of registered nurses is presumed to reflect a holistic approach with emphasis on the bio-psycho-social model of care. The broader literature suggests this goal is not always realised. The aim of this study is to present the views, experiences, and perceptions of undergraduate nursing students who were taught by an academic with a lived experience of mental health service use. In particular, we wanted to look at the expected impact of this approach to learning on their nursing practice. A qualitative, exploratory approach was used, involving in-depth individual interviews with 12 undergraduate nursing students completing the course, "recovery for mental health nursing practice," as part of a major in mental health nursing in a university in Queensland, Australia. Students were asked to reflect upon and discuss their experiences of being taught by a person with lived experience of mental health service use. Data were analysed following Colaizzi's steps to identify the main themes. The three main themes were (1) recovery--bringing holistic nursing to life; (2) influencing practice; and (3) gaining self-awareness through course assessment: challenge and opportunity. These themes suggest an appreciation for holistic nursing and an increased capacity for reflective understanding. The responses from participants suggest the Recovery course had a significant impact on their attitudes to nursing and that their nursing practice would be positively enhanced as a consequence.
4. Most repeating patterns in the environment occur in manufactured objects. Some examples are tiles, pavers, windows, zebra crossings and railway lines. Such objects are generally assembled from units that are very nearly identical.