History of Spiritual Nursing Care Flashcards
Nursing in Pre-Christian times, religious beliefs had great bearing on the attitude towards the sick and the mode of caring for the sick and the suffering.
Pre-Christian Era
“Code of Hammurabi” is an important law code made in Mesopotamia during the reign of the Babylonians
Babylonia
Christianity believed that one should render services of love to humanity without any reward. It was equal to one’s sincere love of God. This principle was absorbed in nursing and helped to improve the status of a nurse.
Pre-Christian Era
This code was special because it was the first code that included laws to deal with everyone in the current society.
Code of Hammurabi
Early Buddhist discovered in China the curative value of many plants led to nursing therapeutics employing herbology.
China
Perfected the art of handwashing and included a role for the male nurse
India
Ancient druidic priests and priestess advised on care and healing in illness
Ireland
A country where medicine contained a strong element of religious magic in its origin.
Egypt
Perfected the art of embalming
Egypt
Produced the first physician
Imhotep
Produced medical textbook
Ebers Papyrus
Instinctive nursing care existed at this time
Egypt
Nursing care in the Greco-Roman era was largely the responsibility of members of the patient’s own family or slaves
Greece
The Ancient Greek Physician
Hippocrates
He is an Ancient Greek Physician who instructed caregivers to “use their eyes and ears, and to reason from facts rather than from assumptions
Hippocrates
Hippocrates taught
“Fluid diet only should be given in fevers”
“Cold sponging for high temperatures”
“Hot gargles for acute tonsillitis”
The god of Healing
Aesculapius
Goddess of Health
Hygeia
Restorer of Health
Panacea
Natural of folk remedies was used in the care of sick in Roman households
Rome
He is a Roman Elder and found the treatment and care of gout, colic, indigestion, constipation, and pain in the side
Cato
They were offered libations in petition for favors related to health and illness needs
Roman Gods
One of the first recorded acts of nursing heroism and courage
Veronica of Jerusalem
Present during Christ’s painful journey to Calvary and cleansed the bleeding face of Jesus with her veil
Veronica of Jerusalem
Often cited as a model for nurses
Veronica of Jerusalem
Among the first “titled” followers of Jesus for whom care of the sick and infirm was identified
Deacon & Deaconesses