KEY QUESTION 5 Flashcards
1
Q
patient care
A
people who are being looked after and by whom
2
Q
medieval hospitals
A
- religious instutions
- run by the church
- look after people, pray
- no true medical treatment
3
Q
leper hospitals
A
- leprosy patients
- leprosy edidemic in 13th and 14th century
- built on outskirts of town
4
Q
almshouses
A
- response to ageing population
- essentially care homes
- contained widows with young children
- single pregnant women
5
Q
impact of closure of monastries
A
henry v||| closed down all hospitals
- public demanded royal family pay
- new hospitals built funded by royals and rich businessmen
6
Q
conditons of modern era hospitals
A
- poor
- cramped stuff wards
- untrained nurses, known for being rude and drunk
7
Q
florence nightingale
A
- crimean war
- make changes to nursing
- beds changed reguarly, wash wounds, dress wounds properly
- nursing schools
- made nurses go in pairs and record everything in a book
8
Q
workmens compensation act, what year?
A
1906
9
Q
when was the national insurance act?
A
1911
