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

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INTUITIVE NURSING

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Nursing was a function that belonged to women, especially in nomadic tribes.

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WOMEN

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Believed as an Evil Invasion, Voodoo, or Black Magic

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ILLNESS

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Witch Doctor/Medicine Man

(Has White Magic) (Healing Power)

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SHAMAN

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Hole drilled in skull via rock or stone without
anesthesia

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Trephination

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Roots of western civilization

★ Birthplace of Judaism, Christianity, and
Mohammedanism

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NURSING IN THE EAST

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Metropolis of the near east

King Hammurabi - Ruler from 1945 B.C to 1902
B.C

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BABYLONIA

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Provided laws that covered every facet of
babylonian life including medical practice

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CODE OF HAMURABI

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Embalming was introduced

★ Also known as mummification

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EGYPT

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This country Strongly believes in spirits and demons (Prohibition dissection of the dead human body)

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CHINA

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Prescribed methods for treating wounds,
infection and muscular afflictions.

★ Study of the action of drugs on healthy humans.

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Materia Medica (Pharmacology)

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Men of medicine built hospitals
● Practice intuitive form of asepsis

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INDIA

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It is the absence of bacteria, viruses, and
other microorganisms.

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ASEPSIS

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Made a list of functions and qualifications of
nurses.

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SUSHURUTU/ SUSRUTA

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are described as a combination of pharmacists, masseurs, physical therapists and cooks.

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PRIEST-NURSES

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

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BUDDHISM

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Nursing was task of untrained slave

● Women were considered inferior to men.

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GREECE

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Who is the Father of Medicine in Greek Mythology

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Aesculapius

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Symbol of identity of medical profession
today.
(Composed of the staff travelers intertwined with 2 serpents)

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CADUCEUS

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Father of Medicine in Reality

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HIPPOCRATES

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Was given the title father of medicine due to his notable contributions to medical practice.

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HIPPOCRATES

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In this era, Illness was considered a sign of
weakness.

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ROME

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Beginning of Organized Nursing
➔ Built hospitals were staffed by religious orders who
dedicated their lives to the care of the patients
★ Period of “On-the-job training”

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APPRENTICE NURSING

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Considered as “Holy Wars” during which the christian soldiers fought to recapture the holy land from the muslims.

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CRUSADERS

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Found in Rhodes, Malta
KNIGHTS OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM
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Fought in the battlefield and after every fight would retire to nurse the wounded.
TEUTONIC KNIGHTS
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Established hospitals primarily for nursing of the lepers
KNIGHTS OF SAINT LAZARUS
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● Founded in 1384 ● Established the Alexian Brothers Hospital School of Nursing in Chicago - Largest school of nursing under religious auspices. exclusively for men in the U.S ● Closed in 1969
ALEXIAN BROTHERS
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Founded by queens, princesses, and other royal ladies.
RELIGIOUS NURSING ORDERS
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Rise of Secular Orders
Augustinians - Poor Clares - Beguines - Benedictines - Ursulines - Tertiaries
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It is where Augustinian nurses nursed patients
HOTEL DE DIEU
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Arose in the 12th to 16th Century
NURSING SAINTS
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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. CLAIR
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The first to be called “Lady with a lamp” before Florence Nightingale.
ST. CATHERINE OF SIENNA
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Organized the works of charity to have directions
VINCENT DE PAUL
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an organization of women
LA CHARITE
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Founder of the “The Community of the Sisters Charity” a charity dedicated to serving God in caring for the sick, the poor, the orphaned, and the widowed.
VINCENT DE PAUL
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She was also known as de MARILLAC ● Co-foundress and the first superior of the charity.
LOUISE DE GRAS
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Head of the Reformation Movement - Initiated significant changes in the church and society to counteract some abuses
MARTIN LUTHER
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An era that gave arise to some violent conflicts ● Contributed to the rise of Protestantism.
THE REFORMATION
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Focused on the peaceful mean of change through prayers and witnessing to a life of sacrifice ● A movement that encouraged a virtuous Christian life but discouraged violent conflicts.
THE COUNTER-REFORMATION
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Also known as “Rebirth” ● Care of the sick was entrusted to those who were proven guilty of a crime of theft.
RENAISSANCE
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Also known as the dark nursing period
RENAISSANCE
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Writer who depicted the inhuman situation of the caretakers
CHARLES DICKENS
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1st organized training school for nurses
DEACONESS SCHOOL OF NURSING
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It was where Florence Nightingale received some of her training and inspiration for the establishment of a school of nursing.
DEACONESS SCHOOL OF NURSING
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First laywoman who worked as a nurse on the north american continent
JEANNE MANCE
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American nurse who founded the Sisters of Charity of Emmetsburg in Maryland in 1908
ELIZABETH SETON
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Not a nurse but appointed Superintendent of Female Volunteer nurses to take care of the wounded for US government
DOROTHEA LYNDE DIX
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Founder of the American Red Cross
CLARA BARTON
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OTHER VOLUNTEERS DURING THE PRE-CIVIL WAR
● Louisa May Alcott - Author ● Walt Whitman - Poet ● Mary Ann Bickerdyke - Humanitarian
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Recognized as the Mother of Nursing
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
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Believed to be the origin of nurse’s pin
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE BROOCH
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It is designed by Prince Albert (Husband of Queen Victoria of England) (Bears the word “Crimea” and “Blessed are the merciful”)
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE BROOCH
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Promotes professionalism, cleanliness, and pride.
NURSES UNIFORM
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Symbolizes the saying “what people wear in the heads can set them apart”
NURSES THE CAP
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Isabel Hampton Robb - 1st Principal of this hospital
JOHN HOPKINS HOSPITAL SCHOOL OF NURSING
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- appointed OR supervisor, had dermatitis ★ She was the first to wear gloves while working as an operating room nurse.
CAROLINE HAMPTON
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Designed the first rubber gloves
DR. WILLIAM HALSTEAD
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Engaged in medical research on yellow fever and malaria
CLARA LOUISE MAAS
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also helped organize and develop both groups
ISABEL H. ROBB
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