iii. If a community health nurse could do follow up immediately after patient is discharged on importance of proper ventilation
and self-hygiene with demonstration for sponging and hand washing techniques, it would prevent infections. With this
proposition, we will probably take care of few assumptions of Nightingale's environmental theory, such as natural laws;
nursing is an art and a science and nursing is achieved through environmental alteration (Selanders, 2010.).
2. Conclusion
This scholarly application was an eye opening opportunity for me to appreciate how this great nursing leader has combined knowledge
of her empirics, arts and ethics to develop such a simple but so general and easy to apply theory with basic concepts in nursing. Today,
however advances have been achieved, but the reality and the importance of Nightingale's theory is at the highest rank, and if followed
religiously nurses and other care takers at home can easily prevent several disease from occurring.
This writing has encouraged me to make attempts to understand Florence Nightingale’s theory in detail. Although this knowledge is
there since long, it is very sad to say that I had not learnt and applied that at under graduate level. But now after reading theory in so
detail I would say nursing is not only science but also an art.