Module 1 (Week 2) Flashcards
Is a set of propositions (statements /opinions), suppositions (assumptions/hypotheses), or constructs (ideas), that purport to explain, describe and predict a reality. It is an abstraction of reality.
Thoery
The Evolution of Nursing
A. Intuitive Period
B. Apprentice Period
C. Educational Period
D. Contemporary Period
Nursing was “untaught” and instinctive. It was performed of compassion for others, out of the wish to help others. Nurse’s role was instinctive and directed toward comforting, practicing midwifery and being wet nurse to a child.
Intuitive Period
(Primitive era – 6th Century)
▪Nursing was a function that belonged to women.
▪No caregiving training is evident.
▪Primitive men believed that illness was caused by the invasion of the victim’s body of evil spirits.
▪Believed that medicine man was called shaman or witch doctor having the power to heal using white magic.
▪Trephining
Intuitive Period
▪Music and singing was often used to chase away spirits.
▪In some cases, TREPHINING was used.
▪TREPHINING is cutting a hole in the head of the afflicted to let out the evil spirit.
Intuitive Period
▪Different prehistoric medical practices
▪Use of mercury
▪Blood Letting with the use of leeches
▪Lobotomies
▪Heroin for headaches
▪Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
▪Trephining
▪Cannibalistic Medical Practices
Prehistoric Medical Practice
*Radium Water
*Ecraseur
*Plombage
*Peg Legs
*Morphine for teething
*Starvation for Aneurysms
*Hydroelectric Baths for Migraines
Prehistoric Medical Practices
- Diagnostic Handbook
- Asipu & Asu
- No distinction between rational science and magic
- Mental Illness is associated
with Deities
Mesopotamia
introduced the methods of
therapy and cause. The text contains a list of medical symptoms and often detailed empirical observations along with logical rules used in
combining observed symptoms on the body of a
patient with its diagnosis and prognosis.
Diagnostic Handbook
is cutting a hole in the head of the afflicted to let out the evil spirit
TREPHINING
Medical Authority
Asipu
Healer
Exorcist
Medical doctor that treat symptoms and injury
Mesopotamia
Asu
- “The Healthiest of all men”
- Edwin Smith Papyrus
- The Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus
- (“Chief of Dentists and Physicians”
for King Djoser in the 27th century BCE) - Peseshet
Egypt
What country is considered to be “The Healthiest of all men”
Egypt
- Medical information may date to a time as early as 3000 BC. It details cures ailment and anatomical observation.
- is an ancient textbook on
almost completely devoid of magical surgery thinking and describing in exquisite detail the examination, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis
of numerous ailments.
Egypt
Edwin Smith Papyrus
treats women’s complaints, including problems with
conception.
The Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus
The earliest known physician is also credited to ancient Egypt
(“Chief of Dentists and Physicians” for King Djoser in the 27th century BCE)
Earliest known woman physician
Peseshet
India
- The Atharvaveda
- Ayurveda
- Charaka and Sushruta
- Susrutasamhita
Ancient text dealing with Medicine
India
The Atharvaveda
“Complete knowledge for long life” Medical system of India with 8 branches of medicine
Ayurveda
2 most famous medical
texbooks that describes physical examinations,
diagnosis, treatment and prognosis and several
surgical procedures.
India
Charaka and Sushruta
Describes several surgical procedures
India
Susrutasamhita
China
- Huangdi neijing
The foundational text of Chinese medicine written 5th century to 3rd century BC- Basis of traditional Chinese medicines, acupuncture
and moxibustion
Huangdi neijing
Greece and Roman Empire
- Wound treatment
- Illness was a sign of weakness
- Slaves or Greek physicians
Period of “on the job” training.
From the founding of the Religious orders in the 11th century up to 1836 with the establishment of the Kaiserwerth Institute for training of Deaconesses.
The Apprentice Period
(6th Century- 18th Century)
What is intuition?
Instinctive
- Nursing performed without any formal education and by
people who were directed by
more experienced nurses - Founding of religious order
The Apprentice
Period
is a war primarily caused or justified by differences in religion.
Religious war or Holy war