HISTORY OF NURSING Flashcards
Nursing had no training and referred to illness as “Black magic”
Intuitive Nursing
Witch doctor in the era of Intuitive Nursing
Shaman
- Code of Hammurabi
- There was practice of medicine, but no nursing
- Discouraged experimentation
Babylonia
Where embalming started and discovery of 250 diseases
Egypt
- Belief in spirits and demons
- Not allowed to dissect
- Materia Medica
China
History of pharmacy, record of the therapeutic properties of any substance used in healing
Materia Medica
- Where the men of medicine built hospitals
- Presence of Priest Nurses who volunteered to take care of the sick
India
Clean, sterile, no presence of bacteria
Asepsis
Where nursing was a task of an untrained slave
Greece
Father of medicine in Greek Mythology
Aesculapius
Father of medicine in Real Life that rejected that disease is from the supernatural and does not entrust care to untrained people
Hippocrates
Symbol of medicine
Caduceus
- Where illness was a sign of weakness
- The Greek physicians and slaves cared for the sick
Rome
Beginning of organized nursing where hospitals were staffed with religious orders
Apprentice Nursing
Soldiers that would retire and nurse the wounded
Knights of St. John of Jerusalem