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| Concern for health care declined with the mysticism of the Middle Ages. Concern over the fighting capacity of the religious crusaders. Performing acts of mercy for the well being of one's eternal soul was a common and accepted reason for entering nursing convents. Early nursing included men drawn into military nursing orders from the religious wars between 1091-1291AD. |
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| Renaissance (1500-1700's) |
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| Great political, social, and economic expansion. St. Vincent de Paul and Mademoiselle Le Gras organized a sisterhood in which ladies went from home to home visiting the sick. Together their contribution led to the development of public health nursing idea of providing education for those persons helping the poor and the sick. |
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| Sairey Gamp: nursing lost it's importance and went to a low lwvel in the 18th century. Lower classes were willing to work as nurses, with no training, and usually prostitutes. It took a long time to recover from this image. There was a loss from the religious wars and a loss of influence by the church. |
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| Florence Nightingale entered the scene and helped bring nursing back from the pit of despair to a respectable profession. She was a nurse, statistician, social reformer, and sanitarian. |
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| From Liverpool England was instrumental in the establishment of the modern concept of visiting nursing, a nurse who provided care to families in the home. |
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| 1887 Nursing Job Description |
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In addition in caring for your 50 patients:
Daily sweep and mop floors and dust furniture and window sills.
Maintain temperature with scuttle of coal for the day.
Fill kerosene lamps, clean chimneys and trim wicks for appropriate light.
Whittle pen nibs.
Report at 7am and leave at 8pm except on Sabath to be off from noon to 2pm.
Graduate nurses have evening off each week for courting or 2 evenings for church.
set aside pay to not be a burden and save.
If nurse smokes, uses liquor, hair at a solon done, goes to dance halls gives reason to suspect her worth.
Faithful nurses get an increase of 5cents per day after 5 years. |
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