tfn Flashcards
Master’s degree programs in nursing emerged to meet the public need for nurses
THE CURRICULUM ERA
NURSING AS A PROFESSION
Occupation is job or career, profession learned vocation
The mother of modern nursing
May 12,1800 / Florence Nightingale
The school served as model for other training schools
St. Thomas Hospital in London/ 1860
Study of problem that are ultimate, abstract and general
PHILOSOPHY
Method for describing, explaining, and predicting causes or outcomes of interventions
SCIENCE
Kaiserswerth Institute for deaconesses
Theodor Fliedner and Friederik in 1836
Licensure of nurses started
CONTEMPORY NURSING 20TH CENTURY
From general to specific
DEDUCTIVE REASONING
Specific to general knowledge
INDUCTIVE Reasoning
Based on the central idea that scientific knowledge can be derived only from sensory experience
EMPIRICISM
Emerged as dominant view of modern science were two approaches that would produce scientific knowledge
Positivism
Worked together with Florence Nightingale
Mary Grant Seacole
“The Moses of her people”
Harriet Tubman
America’s First Trained Nurse
Linda Richards