Chap 1 Flashcards
Greek Culture
- medicine and spirituality
- worship Gods
- wet nurses
Asklepios - son of Apollo; a healer;
Hygeia & Panacea - daughter of Asklepios; goddess of Heath
Iatria - outpatient clinics
Hippocrates - father of modern medicine
Hippocratic Oath - do no harm
Ebers papyrus
- Egypt
- contains prescriptions written in hieratic script
Imhotep
- priest-physician
- egyptian god of medicine
Egyptian Culture
- temples built to worship
- personal cleanliness and care of body after death
- afterlife
- early form of midwifery
Babylonian Culture
- disease believed as punishment for sin
- importance of medicine and surgery
Hammurabi Code - managed health care
Wet nurses - hired to suckle other women’s infant
Hebrew Culture
- spiritual and foundational to health
- disease as punishment for wrongdoing
- Adam & Eve
- considered God’s children
Xenodochia - houses for strangers; precursors of the modern in and hospitals
Mosaic Law - Mosaic Code
Yahweh - creator
Roman Culture
- abundance of Gods and Goddesses
- borrowed heavily from Greek
- well-developed focused on public health issues & personal hygiene
- military hospitals were numerous
Febris - goddess who could reduce fevers
Galen - physician and surgeon; written knowledge about the physiology of the human body
Phoebe
- greek origin
- first deaconesses
- first visiting nurse
Widows
- modern visiting nurse
- home health nursing
- over 60 yrs old
Monasticism Movement
- sisters or nuns
- brothers or monks
- the seeds of hospital nursing
Fabiola
- Roman Matron
- first free Christian public hospital
- engaged in nursing care and dressing of wounds
Helena
- used her wealth to care for the poor
- established a hospital for the elderly GERONCOMION
Xenodocheion
christian hospitals, inns for strangers and travelers
Middle Ages
- AD 500
- Dark Ages; superstition and magic
- advances in fields of medicine and preventive health care
- urbanization increased
- communicable diseases spread (cholera, leprosy, etc)
Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem
male nursing military order
Knights of St Lazarus
cared specifically for people with leprosy
Catherine of Siena
organized an early form of ambulance service that consisted of male stretcher bearers
Hildegarde of Bingen
- trained noblewomen to care for sick in her abbey
- wrote extensively about the causes, symptoms and cures for various diseases
Renaissance
- new era; rebirth
- printing press was developed
- common people becoming more literate
- scientific knowledge, including medical science expanded rapidly
Martin Luther
- former monk
- sparked movement as the Reformation
- ushered in the formation of the Lutheran Church and many other churches; Protestant
- protest against abuses of the Catholic Churches
- disagreed with a number of doctrinal beliefs
- nuns and monks lost their positions in hospitals
- acute shortage on nursing care
- Dark ages of Nursing
Sisters of Charity
- an order of single young women
- founded by St Vincent de Paul
St Vincent de Paul
- french catholic priest
- founded organizations dedicated to serving the people and helping them find employment equivalent to visiting nurses and social service workers
Granger Westberg
- lutheran minister
- focuses on nursing as a service or a call from God to meet health needs in nurse’s churches and communities
Industrial Revolution
- scientific progress
- monumental problems related to the economy and health
- people work with machinery
- overcrowded living and working conditions
- poor sanitation and inadequate ventilation
- contributed to ill health
- epidemics
- homeless orphans
Sairey Gamp
- a private duty home care nurse
- prototype of nurses of the era
- alcoholic
Elizabeth Seton
- established Sisters of Charity
Catherine MacAuley
- founded the Sisters of Mercy
- cared for the wounded during the American Civil War
- established hospitals and homes for unwed mothers and provided care for orphans