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Nursing history
Exam 1
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Nursing
Undergraduate 3
02/18/2011

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why study nursing history?

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History repeats itself because each generation refuses to read the minutes of the last meeting.

professionalism, progression, values, beliefs.

to understand how past has influenced today and to understand your profession, to know who we are.

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Nursing

Definition
the oldest of the arts and the youndest of the professions, the great turning points in history have also been turning points in nursing
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origins in mother-care

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from nutrive "to nourish"

latin nutrix "nursing mother"

English 14th century: norrice, nurice, nourice to nurse- a woman who cares for and tends young children

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primitive and ancient civilizations: nursing as care of the sick

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healers-medicine men and women, intuitive cure and care, evil spirits caused sickness, belief in gods and goddesses, rites, rituals, and spells developed
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Ancient Egypt

Definition

community planning to avoid public health problems; sanitary inspections by health officers

dentistry, classification of drugs

first physician known in history: Imhotep-eqyptian god of medicine

 

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The Hebrews

Definition
mosaic code- clean and unclean, quarantine, storage of meat, prevention of disease
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Babylonia

Definition

illness-punishment for sin

herbs used to purify the body to bring about cure

temples were the centers for curing

prevention was doing what it was believed the gods wanted

surgery was performed

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Greece

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emphasis on health and body-original pupose of the olympics

Aesclapius-physician in greek mythology

Hippocrates-natural cause of disease, treat the whole person, scientific method, accurate observations, record keeping, health was an equilibrium among mind, body, and environment

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China

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acupuncture, yin and yang philosophy, classified drugs
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India

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1600 bc-sacred Brahmanism book (vedas) written, included treatment of disease

andvanced understanding of disease prevention, hygiene and sanitation

contructed public hospitals staffed with male nurses for care

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The Americas

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healing practices-rites, ceremonies, herbal treatments, charms, human sacrifices

health-a balance among man, nature, and supernatural

medicine men (shamans and priests) responsible for curing the body and the mind

disease resulted in displeasing the gods

aztecs had hospices, assisted women with childbirth

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religious image: influence of christianity

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concern for humanity

deaconesses-order of widows-visited the sick in homes

augustinian sisters-first nursing order

Phoebe

Fabrola-first roman hospital-380 ad

st paula-hospitals in inns-first to teach nursing as an art

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Hotel Dieu

 

651 AD

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founded by st. landry-oldest hospital in paris
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THe Knights Hosptitallers of St John

Maltese cross on habits-used for Nightingal school badge

 

8 points of the cross

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loyalty

piety

frankness

bravery

glory/honor

contempt of death

helpfulness for sick and death

respect for church

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Epidemics and plagues

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Black death-a bubonic plague 14th century-caused the mortality of 1/4 of the population of the earth(60 million+)

Spread of syphilis-throughout the ages

London plagues in 1603 and 1625- 1/3 London pop died

18th century-typhus, smallpox, cholera

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seeds of change

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Renaissance-14th-16th centuries-education emphasized medical education not nursing

Reformation-Martin Luter

monastaries closed

religious orders dissolved

women subordinate- home and children, domestic service

hospital decay

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Nursing's Dark ages

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Nursing duties were demeaning, cleaned beds, and the wards

nursing rules- all nurses who disobey orders, get drunk, neglect their patients, quarrel or fight with other nurses, or quarrel or fight with men, shall be immediately discharged

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Social reform

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Nursing groups organized thoughout Europe

order of the visitation of Mary, St. Vincent de Paul

sisters of charity 1633-became lasting, outstanding secular order

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Care moves west

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cortes conquers aztecs- mexico city

catholic religious orders were early conlonists and became doctorr, nurses, and teachers

first hospital on american continent:

Hospital of Immaculate Conception-Mexico city 1524

First medical school in Americas: 1578 at University of Mexico

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England

Hospitals closed early 1500s

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1547-citizens petitioned Edward VI to take over the city's largest hospitals:

St Bartholomew's and St thomas- to care for the sick poor

Bethlehem- for the insane

 

care deteriorated for 300 years because england had no nursing classes

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Florence Nightingale

"the lady with the lamp"

 

Founder of Modern Nursing

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b:1820 d:1910

Florence, italy to wealthy parents

entered nursing with disapproval from parents

a 20th century feminist in Victorian Era

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The crimea-1854

The turning point for Nightingale and modern nursing
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NIghtingale took 38 nurses to Scutari to care for wounded soldiers

Battle of Balaclava

charge of the light brigade-into the valley of death

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The crimea

 

Barracks hospitals

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1700 bed capacity-4000 patients-4 miles of beds 18 in apart

reduced mortality rate from 60% to 1 %

she reformed hospitals, organized and provided nursing care

collected and analyzed statistics

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Nightingale

 

accomplishments

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improved and reformed laws affecting health, morals and the poor

reformed hospitals and improved work-houses and infirmaries

improved medicine by instituting an army medical school and reorganizing the army medical dept

improved the health of natives and british citizens in india and other colonies

established nursing as a profession with 2 missions:

sick nursing

health nursing

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Nursing education

 

Principles

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the school matron had control of the curriculum

education must include both theory and practice

teachers must be paid

records must be kept on students

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Nightingale

 

schools in the us

Definition

1872 new england hospital for women and children

 

Linda Richards graduated in 1873 becoming America's first trained nurse

1879 Mary Eliza Mahoney- first black nurse graduate

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Nightingale

 

schools in the us

 

Bellevue training school

1873

Definition
Livinia Dock- one of first graduates-suffragist, nurse activist, historian, educator
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Connecticut and boston training schools

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Linda Richards became superintendent of nurse in 1894
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Nightingale's view of nursing

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what nursing has to do in either case, is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him
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Nightingale

 

notes on nursing

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you will have much opposition to encounter, but great works do not prosper without great opppostion

let us each and all realizing the importance of our influence on others

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works by Nightingale

Definition

notes on nursing

notes on hospitals

cassandra

suggestions for thought

letters

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modern messages from Nightingale

Definition

important of basic nursing caring-healing practice

return of a sense of calling to the profession

public recognition of the importance of professional caring

importance of competency and commitment

importance of mind, body, spirit in health

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civil war nursing

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sojurner truth-born into slavery, sold 3 times, nursed union sodiers

Dorothea Dix-known for efforts on behalf of mentally ill, superintendent of women nurses for military hospitals

Mary Ann Bickerdyke-served under fire in 19 battles(called mother)

Walt Whitman-untrained nurse, dressed wounds, cared for soldiers

Harriet Tubman-abolitionist, commended for caring for the wounded with regard for color

Clara Barton- instrumental in starting the American red cross

Louisa May Alcott-served as a volunteer nurse, wrote Hospital sketches describing the work of civil war nurses

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Nurses' associated alumnae of the United States and Canada

 

Isabel Hampton Robb-first president

Definition

Forerunner of the ANA (1911)

purposes(1897)

established a code of ethics

elevate the standards of nursing education

promote usefulnes and honor of the nursing profession

 

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World War I

Definition

1918-army school of nursing was organized with annie goodrich as the dean

 

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1918 influenza
Definition
epidemic of major proportions-doctors and nurses die
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edith cavell

Definition
english nurse in belgium who was executed by German soldiers for helping allied soldiers
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public health in the united states

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Lilian wald- the house on henry street, tenement nursing

Mary Brewster

Mary Breckenridge

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World War II

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cadet nurse corp established under the bolton act- provided tuition, uniforms, expenses for women who would enter nursing and upon completion of education serve in the military service
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Nursing education

Definition

Hospital training schools were based on the Nightingale plan

1909 first university school of nursing at University of Minnesota

LPN role develops to meet shortage

1952 Mildred Montag develpoped technical based education for nurses with associates degrees

1965 ANA requires baccalaureate degrees

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Traditions in Nursing

 

Nursing program Ceremonies

Definition

the nursing pin

the nursing cap

the nursing uniform

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