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GLOBAL EVOLUTION/HISTORY OF NURSING Flashcards

I. INTUITIVE NURSING

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instinctive or untaught

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INTUITIVE

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largely based on common sense
based on effects of past experience, not based on scientific training or
formal education

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INTUITIVE

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Women as custodian or nurse in nomadic tribes

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INTUITIVE NURSING

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evil invasion

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illness

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voodoo or black magic

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illness

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witch doctor/medicine man)

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Shaman

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healing power

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white magic

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Drive away illness

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Hypnosis, charms, dances, incantations, purgatives, massage, fire,
water, herbs, and other vegetations and even animals

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hole drilled in the skull via rock or stone without
anesthesia

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Trephination

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Roots of Western civilization

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NURSING IN THE NEAR EAST

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Birthplace of Judaism, Christianity, and Mohammedanism

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NURSING IN THE NEAR EAST

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NURSING IN THE NEAR EAST

Metropolis of the near East

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Babylonia

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NURSING IN THE NEAR EAST

ruler from 1945 B.C. to 1902 B.C.

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King Hammurabi

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NURSING IN THE NEAR EAST

Code of Hammurabi

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 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

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NURSING IN THE NEAR EAST

 Embalming
 Record of 250 diseases
 Still no mention of nursing

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EGYPT

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B. NURSING IN THE FAR EAST

Belief in spirits and demons

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china

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B. NURSING IN THE FAR EAST

Prohibited dissection of human body

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china

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B. NURSING IN THE FAR EAST

Materia Medica ( Pharmacology )

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china

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B. NURSING IN THE FAR EAST

 Prescribed methods of treating wounds, infections, and muscular afflictions

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china

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B. NURSING IN THE FAR EAST

 No mention of nursing but presumed female as in-charge of nursing the sick

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china

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B. NURSING IN THE FAR EAST

 Men of medicine built hospitals

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india

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B. NURSING IN THE FAR EAST

 Practiced intuitive form of Asepsis

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india

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B. NURSING IN THE FAR EAST

 Proficient in the practice of medicine and surgery

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india

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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.

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india

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B. NURSING IN THE FAR EAST

his writings (written 200 or
300 B.C.) is a list of functions and qualifications of the
priest-nurses who were described as combination of
pharmacists, masseurs, physical therapists and cooks.

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SUSHURUTU/SUSRUTA

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B. NURSING IN THE FAR EAST

contributed to the decline of medical
practice when the religion itself fell in this era.

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BUDDHISM

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C. NURSING IN THE ANCIENT GREECE

 Nursing was the task of untrained slave

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greece

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C. NURSING IN THE ANCIENT GREECE

 Women were considered inferior to men & were made to stay at the background to do house chores and care for the
sick.

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greece

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C. NURSING IN THE ANCIENT GREECE

Father of Medicine in Greek mythology

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AESCULAPIUS

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C. NURSING IN THE ANCIENT GREECE

Could be traced in Greek mythology but developed
into an official insignia ( sign; symbol of identity of the
medical profession today )

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CADUCEUS

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C. NURSING IN THE ANCIENT GREECE

  • Composed of the staff of travelers intertwined with 2
    serpents (symbol of Aesculapius and his healing
    power); and wings of Hermes or Mercury located at
    the apex of the staff (symbol of speed; speed of
    healing ).
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CADUCEUS

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C. NURSING IN THE ANCIENT GREECE

  • Born in Greece in 460 BC
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HIPPOCRATES

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C. NURSING IN THE ANCIENT GREECE

  • Given the title Father of Medicine due to his notable
    contributions to medical practice ( in reality, not in
    mythology ).
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HIPPOCRATES

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C. NURSING IN THE ANCIENT GREECE

  • Developed a philosophy of medicine and practice
    medical ethics
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hippocrates

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C. NURSING IN THE ANCIENT GREECE

  • Rejected the belief that the origin of disease could be
    found in the supernatural
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hippocrates

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C. NURSING IN THE ANCIENT GREECE

  • Did not entrust care of the sick to untrained lay
    persons but to medical students; so role of nurses
    wasn’t also mentioned
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hippocrates

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D. TRANSITION FROM PAGAN TO CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY

 Illness was considered a sign of weakness

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rome

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D. TRANSITION FROM PAGAN TO CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY

 Care of the sick was left to the slaves and Greek physicians, both of them being considered inferior by the Roman society

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rome

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D. TRANSITION FROM PAGAN TO CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY

 Some were however converted to Christianity and left their pleasure-seeking life; some of them took good care of the sick(i.e., Story of FABIOLA)

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rome

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