Lecture 1 - History of Nursing Profession Flashcards
Greek and Romans –> health system
Reactive, not proactive Documentation of illness & more treatments Still spiritual component
Nursing BF –> Health
Preventing illness & maintaining health Good diet, use of herbs, spiritual
Christianity and Middle Ages
Nuns called community nurses
More structured nursing care
Church
The Crusades
Catholic order nurses
Renaissance and Enlightenment
“Why are people getting sick?
18th C.
Advancement in science
germ theory (Klebs, Pasteur, Lister, and Koch)
More healthcare advancements, not nursing
Industrial Revolution
Hazardous workplace
Crowding cities
Child labour
Little public health policy/law
•Nightingale: Five Essential Points for Health of Houses: 1) Pure air, 2) pure water, 3)efficient drainage, 4)cleanliness, 5) light
What are Nightingale’s 5 Essential Points for Health of Houses
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- air
- water
- drainage
- cleanliness
- light
What’s sooooo good about Florence Nightingale?
- Founder of professional nursing
- Love & caring alone not sufficient (knowledge + skills)
- Crimean War caregiver
- decreased mortality and morbidity rates with simple nursing care (handwashing)
- 1st to look @ Pt’s enviro
- 1st nurse Statistician
New France
- 1st nurses = males & Jesuit priests
- M. Hébert - Lay nurse (care to settlers)
- Marguerite d’Youville - formed Sisters of Charity (1st visiting nurses)
- help sick, “educate” Natives
What’s the difference b/w how nurses were regarded in France & Britain?
- Nurses well-regarded in France
- Nurses disrespected in Britain
British Regime
- Grey Nuns (cared for soldiers on BOTH sides Fr-En war)
- Infectious disease spread quickly from immigrants to travelers
- Providers lacked knowledge
Opening of West for Nursing
- Grey Nuns from Montreal to West
- Care for new settlers
- Established missions in Man, Sask, NWT
Nursing Education Development
- Nightingale founded 1st financially independent schools
- •schools spread across Euro and N.A
- educational model lost as hospital schools of nursing developed
What about them nursing hospital school!?!
- Students provided nursing care for education and COL.
- Poor living condition for students
- Questionable education
Who brought about Education Reform?
Mary Agnes Snively
What happened in the Education Reform
- Snively
- Superintendent at Toronto General Hospital School of Nursing
- Made proper living conditions, curriculum, criteria for clinical/ education time
Uni Program development
- WWI
- Influenza epidemic (1918)
- Community Health promotes
- UBC - 1st undergrad program (1919)
Who found VON
Lady Ishbel Aberdeen
Nursing Organization in Canada
- Lady Ishbel Aberdeen - Victorian Order of Nurses (VON)
- established education standards
- Women’s Right’s Movement contributed