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
Primarily nursed lepers
Knights of St. Lazarus
Largest School of nursing under religious guidance that was exclusive for men
Alexian Brothers Hospital School of Nursing
Where Augustinian nurses nursed patients
Hotel Dieu, Paris
She took care of the lepers in the convent of San Damiano
St. Claire
She was the first lady with a lamp that nursed patients in hospital of Sta. Maria de la Scala and took care of victims during the Bubonic Plague
St. Catherine of Sienna
Founder of The Community of the Sisters of Charity - dedicated to serving God by caring for the sick
Vincent de Paul
Co-foundress and the first superior
Louise de Gras
Head of reformation movement
Martin Luther
- Lead to the Dark Age
- Caretakers were not given humane facilities, end up stealing patient’s food and accepting bribes
Renaissance
1st organized training school for nurses, where Nightingale received some training
Deaconess School of Nursing
- First laywoman nurse in North America
- Founder of Hotel Dieu, Montreal
Jeanne Mance
Founded the Sisters of Charity of Emmetsburg
Elizabeth Seton
Superintendent of Female Volunteer Nurses, was not a nurse
Dorothea Lynde Dix
Date cornerstone of nursing in England
June 15, 1860
- Decent living quarters for students
- Paid nurse instructors
Nightingale System
- Origin of the nurses’ pin
- St. George’s cross surrounded by a diamond crown
- “Crimea” “Blessed are the merciful”
Nightingale’s Brooch
- 1st graduate nurse in the US
- Completed a 1 year course at New England Hospital
Linda Richards
Cared for patients with malaria and yellow fever
Clara Louise Maas
Having the studies and documented data to hand (for practical and theoretical needs) concerning: the objectives and assumptions (general – basic and detailed), methods of work, methodology and methods of research, adopted solutions and expected results
UN, WHO
Contemporary Nursing
