Florence Nightingale developed a theory of nursing that focused on manipulating the patient's environment. She identified key environmental factors like ventilation, warmth, light, noise, cleanliness, and nutrition. Nightingale believed nurses should control these environmental aspects and modify them to put the patient in the best condition for healing. Her model views the patient, nurse, and environment as interconnected. The nurse's role is to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate environmental modifications to support the patient's ability to regain their health. Nightingale's theory emphasized the importance of the environment and established nursing as distinct from medicine.