Chapter 1: The Nursing Profession; History of Nursing Flashcards
Florence Nightingale
- 1st nursing philosophy based on health maintenance and restoration
- Nursing Role is seen of having charge of someone’s health
- This role is based on the knowledge of how to put the body in such a state to be free of disease or to recover from disease
- Lady with the lamp
- Mortality rate from 42.7% to 2.2% in 6 months
Civil War to Beginning of the Twentieth Century
- 1860-1865
- Many nurses influenced Nursing
- -Clara Barton
- -Dorothea Lynde Dix
- -Mary Ann Ball
- -Harriet Tubman
- -Mary Mahoney
- -Isabel Hampton Robb
Clara Barton
- Founder of American Red Cross
- Cared for soldiers on the battle fields, cleansing their wounds, meeting their basic needs, and comforting them until death
Dorothea Lynde Dix
Organized hospitals, appointed nurses and oversaw and regulated supplies to the troops
Mary Ann Ball
(Mother Bickerdyke)
Organized ambulance services and walked abandoned battlefields at night, looking for wounded soldiers
Harriet Tubman
Active in underground railroad movement and assisted in leading over 300 slaves to freedom
Mary Mahoney
First professionally educated African American nurse
Concerned with relationships between cultures and races
Made an awareness of cultural diversity and respect for the individual, regardless of background, race, color, or religion
Isabel Hampton Robb
Helped found the Nurses’ Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada in 1896; became ANA in 1911
Authored many nursing textbooks
20th Century
Scientific and evidence-based defined body of nursing knowledge and practice
–Mary Adelaide Nutting
Mary Adelaide Nutting
A big player in nursing education in universities
First professor of nursing at Columbia University Teachers College in 1906