Nursing as a Profession Flashcards
Definition of Nursing
Both Art and Science
is the art of caring for the sick and well individual
Art: Definition of Nursing
it refers to the dynamic skills and methods in assisting sick and well individual in their recovery and in the promotion and maintenance of health
Art: Definition of Nursing
is the scientific knowledge and skills in assisting individual to achieve optimal health
Science: Definition of Nursing
it is the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential problem.
Science: Definition of Nursing
Actual health problem - this are the health problem that is already existing
Potential healht problem - have capacity on the developing
medical condition
hypertension
medical condition
asthma
medical condition
urinary tract infection
medical condition
diabetes
medical condition
UTI
medical condition
anemia
Example of medical condition
hypertension
Asthma
urinary tract infection
UTI
Diabetes
anemia
Nursing process: 5 steps
A-D-P-I-E
A-D-P-I-E
What is the meaning of A
Assesment
A-D-P-I-E
What is the meaning of D
Diagnosis
A-D-P-I-E
What is the meaning of P
Planning
A-D-P-I-E
What is the meaning of I
Intervention
A-D-P-I-E
What is the meaning of E
Evaluation
(4) Four Eras in the Nursing history
Intuitive, Apprentice, Educative, and Contemporary Period
Practiced since pre-historic times among primitice tribes and lasted through the early Christian era
Period of Intuitive Nursing
Nursing was untaught and instinctive
Period of Intuitive Nursing
6500 BC
Trephining
the first known surgery was probably trephininh,or drilling the skull
Trephining
this may have been a cure for headache
Trephining
the remains of skulls where the hole has healed suggest that some patients even survived the operation
Trephining
to free the evil spirit or to remove the evil spirit they create a hole they drill a hole the skull, they use sharpened stone
Trephining
they move from one area to another after they consume the resources from the area
nomadic life
important events during intuitive nursing
Growth of Religion
Growth of Civilization
Growth of Civilization
- Near East
- Far East
- Ancient Greece
- Ancient Rome
Nursing in the Near East
Mode of Nomadic Life -
Agrarian Society
Nursing in the Near East
Agrarian Society
Gradual development of urban community life
Nursing in the Near East
Nursing as a duty of
Slaves and wives
Birth of 3 religious ideologist
- Judaism
- Christianity
- Mohammedism or Islam
Contributions to Medicine and Nursing
contributed the code of Hammurabi
Babylonia
Contributions to Medicine and Nursing
1st recording in the medical practice
Babylonia
Contributions to Medicine and Nursing
establised the medical fees
Babylonia
Contributions to Medicine and Nursing
Discouraged experimentation
Babylonia
Contributions to Medicine and Nursing
Specific doctor for each disease
Babylonia
Contributions to Medicine and Nursing
Right of patient to choose treatment between the use of charms, medicine, or surgical procedure
Babylonia
Contributions to Medicine and Nursing
Art of Embalming
Egypt
Contributions to Medicine and Nursing
mummification, removing the internal organs of the dead body, instillation of herbs and salts to the dead
Egypt
Contributions to Medicine and Nursing
used to enhance their knowledge of the human anatomy
Egypt
Contributions to Medicine and Nursing
Documentation about 250 diseases and treament
Egypt
Contributions to Medicine and Nursing
slaves and patient’s families nursed the sick
Egypt
Contributions to Medicine and Nursing
attracts, extracting, and pulling the water
salt
the tissue of the body dehydrate by using salt to cover the body so that it will not decompose
Contributions to Medicine and Nursing
able to contribute the teaching of Moses
Israel
Contributions to Medicine and Nursing
the **Father of Sanitation **
Moses
Moses wrote the 5 books of the old testaments. he supported the practice of hospitality and charity. Moses grew as an egyptian. during the time that he learns that he an israelite and god talk to him and ordered him to move his people out egypt to go to the promise land. they will stop in a particular area and they will move again. during that time there was an outbreak of diarial diseases. the place where they stop there was no proper area to depicate so that time there was an outbreak of diarial diseases, moses and his cousin aaron they were able to think of digging on the soil they created a pit so that the people can move there vowels and cover some soil. they discovered also the artisan well, when they are digging for a pit for a toilet, they notice the water just go down and then when they live that water for a bit of time theres a sedimentation of soil or sand the water became clear. during the time of moses condom was discover it is the intestine of a sheep. moses was a able to create laws of the control of the spread of the communicable diseases and the ritual of the circumsition of thea male child,it just a ritual it marks as a transition of being a child to becoming an adult.
Contributions to Medicine and Nursing
able to create laws of the control of the spread of the communicable diseases and the ritual of the circumsition of the male child,it just a ritual it marks as a transition of being a child to becoming an adult.
Moses (Israel)
Contributions to Medicine and Nursing
the time of Israel the nurses are referred to as
Midwives
Wet nurse
Child’s nurse
Nursing in the Far East
was known to contribute Materia Medica (Pharmacology)
China
Nursing in the Far East
during this time they use herbs, barks and roots as a source of treatments to different diseases
China
Nursing in the Far East