HISTORY OF NURSING Flashcards
instinctive or untaught; largely based on common sense based on effects of past experience, not based on scientific training or formal education
INTUITIVE NURSING
custodian or nurse in nomadic tribes
women
evil invasion; voodoo or black magic
illness
( witch doctor/medicine man) – has white magic ( healing power )
Shaman
hole drilled in the skull via rock or stone without anesthesia
Trephination
- Roots of Western civilization
- Birthplace of Judaism, Christianity, and Mohammedanism
NURSING IN THE NEAR EAST
Metropolis of the near East
Babylonia
ruler from 1945 B.C. to 1902 B.C.
King Hammurabi
no mention of nursing; provided laws that covered every facet of Babylonian life including medical practice
Code of Hammurabi
Embalming was introduced; Record of 250 diseases; Still no mention of nursing
Egypt
strongly believes in spirits and demons
china
❖Prescribed methods of treating wounds, infections, and muscular afflictions
Materia Medica ( Pharmacology )
No mention of nursing but presumed female as in-charge of nursing the sick
China
- Men of medicine built hospitals
- Practice intuitive form of asepsis
INDIA
absence of bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms.
Asepsis
Proficient in the practice of __________ and _________.
medicine
surgery
Nursing was first mentioned in this era, by the first
lay brothers or the priest nurses
India
(written 200 or 300 B.C.) made a list of functions and qualifications of the priest-nurses
Sushurutu/Susruta
described as combination of pharmacists, masseurs, physical therapists and cooks.
priest-nurses
Contributed to the decline of medical practice
when the religion itself fell in this era.
Buddhism
- Nursing was task of untrained slave
- Women were considered inferior to men.
GREECE
Father of Medicine in Greek Mythology
Aesculapius
- Symbol of identity of medical profession today.
- Composed of the staff travelers intertwined with 2 serpents
Caduceus
Father of Medicine in Reality
- Was given the title father of medicine due to his
notable contributions to medical practice.
- Developed philosophy of medicine and
practiced medical ethics.
- Rejected the belief that the origin of disease
could be found in the supernatural.
- Did not entrust care of the sick to untrained lay
persons but to medical students; so the role of nurses wasn’t also mentioned.
Hippocrates
In this era, Illness was considered a sign of weakness.
Rome
- Beginning of Organized Nursing
- Built hospitals were staffed by religious orders who
dedicated their lives to the care of the patients
Apprentice Nursing
Considered as “Holy Wars” during which the christian soldiers fought to recapture the holy land from the muslims.
Crusaders
TRUE OR FALSE: Organized nursing was found in the convent, secular and mendicant or begging orders
FALSE; Organized nursing was found in the MILITARY, secular and mendicant or begging orders
fought in the battlefield and after every fight would retire to nurse the wounded.
KNIGHTS OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM (Rhodes, Malta) & Teutonic Knights
established their hospitals primarily for nursing of the lepers
KNIGHTS OF SAINT LAZARUS
• Founded in 1348
• Established the Alexian Brothers Hospital School of Nursing in Chicago which was the largest school of nursing under religious auspices operated exclusively for men in the U.S.
• Closed in 1969
-LARGEST SCHOOL OF NURSING UNDER RELIGIOUS AUSPICES.
Alexian Brothers
Founded by queens, princesses, and other royal ladies
RELIGIOUS NURSING ORDERS
• Where the Augustinian nurses nursed the patients
• Hospitals then were poorly ventilated, mattresses were hard and cleaned only 3x a year, beds were shared by 2 or 3 patients, laundry was done by nurses, linens were sometimes washed in the nearby river
HOTEL DIEU ( in Paris )
Arose in the12th to 16th centuries
Nursing Saints
- founder of the 2nd order of St. Francis of Assisi
- took care of the sick particularly the lepers in
the convent of San Damiano
ST. CLARE ( 1194 – 1253 )
- the first to be called the “Lady with a Lamp”
- nursed patients in the hospital of Santa Maria
de la Scala and in their homes
ST. CATHERINE OF SIENNA ( 1347- 1380)
when did the BUBONIC PLAGUE struck Sienna?
1347
• Organized the works of charity so as they could have directions
• Founder of “The Community of the Sisters of Charity” who were dedicated to serving God in caring for the sick, the poor, the orphaned, and the widowed
VINCENT DE PAUL
Vincent De Paul organized a group of women and then named them __ _______
La Charite
Co-foundress and the first superior of the charity of vincent de paul.
LOUISE DE GRAS ( nee de MARILLAC )
An era that gave arise to some violent conflicts; protentantism
the reformation
- Head of the Reformation Movement ; initiated some significant changes in the church and society to counter act some abuses.
.
Martin Luther
• A movement that encouraged a virtuous Christian life but discouraged violent conflicts; upheld some of the changes initiated by Martin Luther
• Focused on peaceful means of change through prayers and witnessing to a life of sacrifice
THE COUNTER-REFORMATION
- Rise of progress in arts and culture but NOT in moral and religious values
- Society was filled with thieves due to social deprivations
- Care of the sick was entrusted to those who were proven guilty of a crime of theft.
- Care takers were not given humane facilities like food and quarters, so all the more they got buried into evil deeds like stealing the patients’ foods, accepting bribes, etc.
All the above contributed to why the 17th and 19th centuries were considered to be the DARK AGE of society ( hence, concurrently, the dark period of Nursing)
Reneissance (Rebirth)
Writer who depicted the inhuman situation of the care takers
CHARLES DICKENS
Charles dicken wrote a novel entitled ______ __________, in which 2 characters ______ (Sarah) ____ and _____ _____ ( PRIG, PROG) portrayed the roles of such thieves who were given the task of taking care of the sick as a form of punishment
Martin Chuzzlewit
Sairey Gamp
Betzy Praeg