Non-invasive technologies of nursing care based on Florence Nightingale's environmental theory

Abstract

The aim was to associate the conceptions of Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory with the use of non-invasive technologies to the practices carried out by nursing during childbirth, labor and puerperium. It is an integrative review described by the Brazilian literature between the years 2010 and 2019. Ten studies analyzed, seven show the use of technologies related to Ambience. A research dealt exclusively with technologies related to this aspect. Another study addressed the use of only the category of instrumental technologies and one simultaneously addressed the three categories: Ambience and Non-invasive technologies of nursing care for pain relief / instruments and related to Physiological Needs. We must consider the environment, as a set of elements that include clean air, noise, cleanliness, lighting, among others. Such assumptions of the Environmentalist Theory can be associated with the non-invasive technologies of nursing care used in labor and delivery.