Week 1 Flashcards
Nursing was untaught and instinctive, it was performed out of compassion for others
Period of Intuitive Nursing
It was practiced since prehistoric times among primitive tribes and lasted through the early Christian era
Period of Intuitive Nursing
-Nursing was a function that belonged to women.
-They believed that illness was caused by invasion of the victim’s body by evil spirits through the use of black magic or voodoo
Period of Intuitive Nursing
Magic
Voodo
They believed that the medicine man was a shaman or witch doctor.
Period of Intuitive Nursing
The medicine man who has the power to heal using white magic. Among others, he used hypnosis, charms, dances, incantation, massage, fire, water, and herbs as means of driving illness away from the victim
Shaman or witch doctor
The “shaman” also practiced drilling a hole in the skull with a rock or stone without anesthesia as a last resort to drive evil spirits away from the victim’s body.
Trephining
The shaman also practiced trephining in this period.
Period of Intuitive Nursing
-In this period, nursing remained the duty of slaves, wives, and mothers.
-The care for the sick was related to religion, superstition and magic.
-And at the same time, astrology and numerology was also used in medical practice.
Period of Intuitive Nursing
-Contributed the Code of Hammurabi
-No mention of nurses or nursing.
Babylonia
-It provided laws that covered every facet of Babylonian life including medical practice.
-The medical regulations established fees.
-Discouraged experimentation.
-Recommended doctors for each disease and gave patients the right to choose between the use of charms, medication, or surgical procedures to cure the disease.
Code of Hammurabi
Introduced the art of embalming which enhanced their knowledge of human anatomy
Egypt
-Developed the ability to make keen observation left a record of 250 recognized diseases.
-Slaves and patient’s families nursed the sick.
Egypt
Here it has Moses who wrote the five books of the Old Testament which emphasized the practice of hospitality to strangers and acts of charity.
Israel
The father of Sanitation
Moses
Promulgated laws of control on the spread of communicable disease and the ritual of circumcision
Israel
Referred to nurses as midwives, wet nurses or child’s nurses whose acts were compassionate and tender
Israel
They strongly believed in spirits and demons
China
Practiced ancestor worship which prohibited the dissection of dead human body
China
They gave the knowledge of “materia medica” or pharmacology which prescribed methods of treating wounds, infections and muscular afflictions.
China
There was no mention of nursing in their records
Care of the sick- done by female members of the household
China
Built hospitals, practiced an intuitive form of asepsis (sterilization) and were proficient in practice of medicine and surgery
India
For the first time in history, there was reference to the nurses taking care of patients. These nurses were described as combination by physical therapist and cook
India
For the first time in history, there was reference to the nurses taking care of patients. These nurses were described as combination by physical therapist and cook
India
They had sushurutu who made a list of function and qualifications of nurses
India
Made a list of function and qualifications of nurses
Sushurutu
Made a list of function and qualifications of nurses
Sushurutu
-Nursing was the task of untrained slave.
-They have Hippocrates who was born in Greece, made a major advancement in medicine.
Ancient Greece
-Nursing was the task of untrained slave.
-They have Hippocrates who was born in Greece, made a major advancement in medicine.
Ancient Greece
He was born in Greece and was given the title of “Father of Scientific Medicine” as he made a major advance in medicine by rejecting the belief that the diseases had supernatural causes.
He also developed assessment standards for clients and recognized a need for nurses.
Hippocrates
The insignia of the medical profession today
Caduceus
The romans attempted to maintain vigorous health, because illness was a sign of weakness.
Care of the ill was left to the slaves or Greek physicians (both were looked upon as inferior by the roman society)
They have Fabiola
Rome
She was converted to Christianity and made her home the first hospital in the Christian world.
Fabiola
