GLOBAL EVOLUTION/HISTORY OF NURSING Flashcards
I. INTUITIVE NURSING
instinctive or untaught
INTUITIVE
largely based on common sense
based on effects of past experience, not based on scientific training or
formal education
INTUITIVE
Women as custodian or nurse in nomadic tribes
INTUITIVE NURSING
evil invasion
illness
voodoo or black magic
illness
witch doctor/medicine man)
Shaman
healing power
white magic
Drive away illness
Hypnosis, charms, dances, incantations, purgatives, massage, fire,
water, herbs, and other vegetations and even animals
hole drilled in the skull via rock or stone without
anesthesia
Trephination
Roots of Western civilization
NURSING IN THE NEAR EAST
Birthplace of Judaism, Christianity, and Mohammedanism
NURSING IN THE NEAR EAST
NURSING IN THE NEAR EAST
Metropolis of the near East
Babylonia
NURSING IN THE NEAR EAST
ruler from 1945 B.C. to 1902 B.C.
King Hammurabi
NURSING IN THE NEAR EAST
Code of Hammurabi
Practice of Medicine
Fees
Discouraged experimentation
Specialty for diseases
Right of patient to choose (charms, drugs,
surgery ) to cure diseases
Excavated 1849
No mention of Nursing
NURSING IN THE NEAR EAST
Embalming
Record of 250 diseases
Still no mention of nursing
EGYPT
B. NURSING IN THE FAR EAST
Belief in spirits and demons
china
B. NURSING IN THE FAR EAST
Prohibited dissection of human body
china
B. NURSING IN THE FAR EAST
Materia Medica ( Pharmacology )
china
B. NURSING IN THE FAR EAST
Prescribed methods of treating wounds, infections, and muscular afflictions
china
B. NURSING IN THE FAR EAST
No mention of nursing but presumed female as in-charge of nursing the sick
china
B. NURSING IN THE FAR EAST
Men of medicine built hospitals
india
B. NURSING IN THE FAR EAST
Practiced intuitive form of Asepsis
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B. NURSING IN THE FAR EAST
Proficient in the practice of medicine and surgery
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B. NURSING IN THE FAR EAST
The mention of nurses were in reference to the first lay brothers or the priest nurses, who, by virtue of their
vocation, voluntarily took charge of taking care of the sick.
india