Periods of Nursing History Flashcards
Period before the Great Flood
A. Intuitive Period
B. Apprentice Period
C. Educative Period
D. Contemporary Period
Intuitive Period
What are the other names of your intuitive period?
- Prehistoric period
- Early Christian era
Since there was no science nor formal education during the intuitive period, people base their everyday activities on ____
- Intuition
- Instinct
During the intuitive period, ____ travel from one place to another. They practice “survival of the fittest rule”.
Nomads
In the intuitive period, sickness was believed to be caused by ____, and ____ were employed to cast out these evil spirits.
- voodoo/curses
- shamans
Why are women the main healers during the intuitive period?
- natural nurturers
- desire to help
- feelings of compassion
What was the 1st recorded surgery in time?
Trephining (drilling the skull)
Trephining (drilling of the skull) was used to treat what?
Used to treat psychotic patients believed to be possessed by evil spirits
What was the most important thing that happened during intuitive period?
Growth of religion
Greatest leap in intuitive period was?
Growth of civilization
Near East – birth place of 3 religious ideologist: ____, ____, and ____
- Judaism
- Christianity
- Mohammedism or Islam
____ is a tiny area known as birth of monotheism that lies between Tigris and Euphrates River in the Nile River arose the cultures of Babylonia, Egypt and Hebrew
New World
Civilizations
For the Babylonians, the 1st recording on the medical practice was called?
Code of Hammurabi
Civilizations
Egyptians were famous for 2 things in the medical community. What are they?
- Mummification
- 250 diseases
Civilizations
Egyptians were so focused in learning about human anatomy that was performed on their dead that they did not learn ____
- philosophy