Florence Nightingale’s focus on environment, health
and wellbeing: Nightingale proposed that nurses
provide a therapeutic environment to nurse the person
rather than the disease.28 A therapeutic environment
provides an integrative network of physical, spiritual
and psychological factors, which contributes to the
creation of a healing or a healthy place for hospitalization.
Florence Nightingale advised using relaxation
techniques such as encouraging rest, pleasurable
sounds, and limiting disturbances and unnecessary
noises.