History of Spiritual Nursing Care

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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.

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Pre-Christian Era

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“Code of Hammurabi” is an important law code made in Mesopotamia during the reign of the Babylonians

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Babylonia

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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.

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Pre-Christian Era

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This code was special because it was the first code that included laws to deal with everyone in the current society.

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Code of Hammurabi

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Early Buddhist discovered in China the curative value of many plants led to nursing therapeutics employing herbology.

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China

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Perfected the art of handwashing and included a role for the male nurse

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India

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Ancient druidic priests and priestess advised on care and healing in illness

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Ireland

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A country where medicine contained a strong element of religious magic in its origin.

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Egypt

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Perfected the art of embalming

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Egypt

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Produced the first physician

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Imhotep

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Produced medical textbook

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Ebers Papyrus

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Instinctive nursing care existed at this time

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Egypt

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Nursing care in the Greco-Roman era was largely the responsibility of members of the patient’s own family or slaves

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Greece

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The Ancient Greek Physician

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Hippocrates

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He is an Ancient Greek Physician who instructed caregivers to “use their eyes and ears, and to reason from facts rather than from assumptions

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Hippocrates

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Hippocrates taught

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“Fluid diet only should be given in fevers”
“Cold sponging for high temperatures”
“Hot gargles for acute tonsillitis”

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The god of Healing

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Aesculapius

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Goddess of Health

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Hygeia

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Restorer of Health

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Panacea

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Natural of folk remedies was used in the care of sick in Roman households

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Rome

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He is a Roman Elder and found the treatment and care of gout, colic, indigestion, constipation, and pain in the side

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Cato

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They were offered libations in petition for favors related to health and illness needs

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Roman Gods

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One of the first recorded acts of nursing heroism and courage

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Veronica of Jerusalem

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Present during Christ’s painful journey to Calvary and cleansed the bleeding face of Jesus with her veil

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Veronica of Jerusalem

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Often cited as a model for nurses

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Veronica of Jerusalem

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Among the first “titled” followers of Jesus for whom care of the sick and infirm was identified

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Deacon & Deaconesses

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Jesus exhorted to give a “cup of cold water” in His name so these early disciples of Christianity opened their homes to those in need of physical and emotional care

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Deacon & Deaconesses

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One of the first recorded acts of nursing heroism and courage

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Deacon & Deaconesses

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Women who converted to Christianity and used their power and wealth to support charitable work of nursing the sick

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Roman Matrons

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Founded hospitals and convents, living ascetic lives dedicated to the care of the ill and infirm

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The Matrons

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Roman Matrons are

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-St. Helena -Paula -Marcella

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Started the first “gerokomion” or home for the aged infirm in the Roman Empire

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St. Helena (Flavia Helena)

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founded the first hospice for pilgrims in Bethlehem.

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St.Paula

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She managed the institutions and personally nursed the tired and the sick for almost 20 years.

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St.Paula

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She founded a community of religious women whose primary concern was care of the sick poor.

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St. Marcella

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Devoted her life to charitable works and prayer.

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St. Marcella

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Founded the Holy Cross Monastery. Established a hospice and cared lovingly and tenderly those afflicted with leprosy

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St. Ragunde

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A cultured and scholarly woman, directed her monastic community in the care of the sick including the lepers

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St. Hilda

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Founded the great monastery of Kildare, where the ill were received with charity and compassion

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St. Brigid

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Learned a great deal on illness and healing during internship of nursing in Disibodenberg infirmary.

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Hildegard of Bingen

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Considered the patron of those who tend the sick. Gave words of sympathy when he could not give words of hope.

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St. Francis of Assisi

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St. Francis would be sending the diseased and deformed to St. Clare and her nuns who nursed them in little huts of mud and branches.

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St. Clare of Assisi

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A princess of Thuringia who, after her husband’s death in the Crusades, entered the Third Order of St. Francis and committed her life to the care of the sick poor.

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St. Elizabeth of Hungary

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Known to contemporary healthcare providers as the “Patroness of Nursing,” entered the Tertiaries of St. Dominic while still in her teens

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St. Catherine of Siena

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During the Black Plague epidemic in 1372, she walked night and day in the wards, only resting for a few hours and then in an adjacent house

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St. Catherine of Siena

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He became concerned about the lack of care for the poor and needy especially the sick poor in 17th century France

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St. Vincent de Paul

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He began gathering together a band of laity to visit and care for the sick and the poor, naming them the Confraternity of Charity

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St. Vincent de Paul

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A wealthy widow, was directed by Vincent to become the first leader of the small community.

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Louise de Marillac

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The American Sisters of Charity followers of the vision of St. Vincent de Paul was founded by

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Elizabeth Bayley Seton

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She is an Episcopalian, who served the poor first with the Protestant Sisters of Charity then later converted to Catholicism.

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Elizabeth Bayley Seton

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Established a building of classrooms, dormitories, a clinic, and a chapel labeling it the “House of Mercy”

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Catherine McAuley

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She obtained permission to visit the wards of several Dublin hospitals with her nuns to bring consolation to the patients

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Mother Catherine

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They were sent to the Crimea by the English government and labored with Florence Nightingale

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Sisters of Mercy

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Protestant community of women with a primary ministry of nursing the sick was founded by a young Lutheran Minister, Theodore Fleidner

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Kaiserswerth Deaconesses

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Together with his wife, Frederika Munster, they gathered a group of women who would visit and nurse the sick poor in their homes

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Kaiswerswerth Deaconesses

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What are the four key branches of work of Kaiserswerth Deaconesses

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1. Nursing 2. Relief of the poor 3. Care of Children 4. Work among unfortunate women

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What is the role of the contemporary Lutheran deaconess

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The role of the contemporary Lutheran deaconesses is to “serve God’s people through spiritual care and works of mercy.’

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Their ministry centers on the concepts of “agape love and love of neighbor” as well as a sense of “mercifulness and community”

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Kaiserswerth Deaconesses

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A community is not considered a religious “order”

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Florence Nightingale's community

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She was one of the first to bring spirituality and science together to improve the care of the sick

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Florence Nightingale

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Central to Nightingale’s spirituality was her belief in the greatness of God, as the

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"Spirit of Truth"

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She is the World War 1 Nurse

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Edith Cavell

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Was one of the greatest nursing heroines during the first world war who moved to Brussels, Belgium in order to become director of a new school of nursing.

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Edith Cavell

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She began to cooperate with underground efforts to try and save the lives of wounded Allied soldiers whom the occupation forces planned to either kill or imprison.

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Edith Cavell

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What were the Edith Cavell's last recorded words before her death?

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“I have nothing to regret. If I had to do it over again, I would do just as I did.”

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Sisters of Mercy

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Catherine McAuley

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Sisters of Charity

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Elizabeth Bayley Seton