History of Nursing Flashcards
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History
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Nursing History
Primitive care
mothers-nurses worked with priests in providing care for the sick
4000 BC
without organization, ( formal) education, social status.
Women stayed at home, reared children, were good housewives and caring mothers.
BEFORE MID 1800
Built temples to honor HYGEIA, the goddess of health
Priestesses (who were not nurses) attended to those housed in the temples (religious responsibility)
ANCIENT GREECE
wealthy matrons (FABIOLA) of the Roman Empire used their wealth to provide houses of care & healing.
3RD & 4TH CENTURY
Caregivers had no formal training in therapeutic modalities and cared for the sick as a religious duty.
Roman Empire
Military, religious, and lay orders (religious sectors) of men provided care
In the rural parts of Eastern Roman Empire & the West — nursing was viewed as a natural nurturing job for women.
Middle Ages
The Protestant Reformation (AD 1500-1700) dissolved Catholic hospitals in many European countries -> the sick no longer had institutional care.
Renaissance
medical schools were founded
London
barbers functioned as surgeons (leeching - believed to have anesthetic effect, enemas - emptying colon, extracting teeth)
France
women (alcoholics & prostitutes) made beds, scrubbed floors, & bathed the poo
Early Mid 1800s
only men were considered “pure” enough to be nurses - girls are the one who court the guy
India
who revived the Church Order of Deaconesses –opened a small hospital and KAISERSWERTH training school in Germany - where florence nightingale had her training
THEODORE FLIEDNER
when was the Crimean War
1854-1856