Changes in Nursing and the Role of Women 1845-1895 Flashcards
What were hospitals like in 1845?
Places where people went to die. They did not treat illness.
What were nurses like in 1845?
Untrained and often drunks and women from the lowest classes of society.
Where did Florence Nightingale go to to treat injured soldiers?
Scutari in Turkey during the Crimean War.
What are the key features of the work of Florence Nightingale?
Key feature:
Improves Hospitals in the Crimea/Improves hospitals and nursing at home.
Facts:
Travels to Crimea to work in Army hospitals, conditions are terrible.
Write a book ’Notes on nursing’ to improve nursing—it is a best seller
Introduces cleanliness & separate wards, reduces death rate from 50% to 2%.
Opens a nursing school to improve the training for nurses.
Is known as the ‘Lady with the lamp’ for her care of soldiers.
Writes a report to the Queen about hospitals and consults on new hospitals
Importance:
Changes the way Army hospitals are run. Improves the standard of nursing in Britain and the hospitals.
What are the key features of the work of Elizabeth Garrett?
Key feature: First female doctor
Facts:
Works as a nurse but attends lectures and trains to be a doctor.
Faces opposition from male students and men who think women are inferior. They say women cannot deal with the gruesome roles of a doctor.
Qualifies as a doctor but has to take college of apothecaries to court to practice as a doctor.
Importance:
Changes the role of and perception of women in medicine. Inspires other women to become doctors.
What are the key features of the work of Mary Seacole?
Key feature:
Jamacain nurse who helped soldiers during the Crimean war
Facts:
Like Florence Nightingale she travels to Crimea to work in Army hospitals, but she pays her own fare.
Helps improve conditions for soldiers but goes largely unrecognised until recentley.
Importance:
First black nurse to change the way Army hospitals are run. Improves the standard of nursing in army hospitals during the Crimean war but goes largely unrecognised because she is black.
How did hospitals change between 1845-1945?
Paragraph 1:
What hospitals were like in 1845
Paragraph 2:
Changes in military hospitals / the work of Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War
Paragraph 3:
Changes in hospitals in Britain. Florence Nightingale’s ‘Notes on Nursing’ book and the setting up of her Nursing School
Paragraph 4:
Other changes in hospitals. Antiseptic and Aseptic surgery the work of James Simpson (Anaesthetics) and Joseph Lister (Antiseptics)
