Week 1 Flashcards
The Evolution of Nursing Theories
Intuitive Period
Apprentice Period
Educational Period
Contemporary Period
Nursing was “untaught” and instinctive. It was performed of compassion for others, out of the wish to help others.
Intuitive Period
(Primitive Era - 6th Century)
Nurse’s role was instinctive and directed toward comforting, practicing midwifery and wet nurse to a child.
Intuitive Period
(Primitive Era - 6th Century)
Is a woman who breastfeeds and cares for another’s child.
What period is this?
Wet Nurse
Intuitive Period (Primitive Era - 6th Century)
_____ was a function belonged to women.
Nursing
No care giving training was evident
Intuitive period (Primitive Era - 6th Century)
Primitive men believed that illness was caused by the invasion of the victim’s body of evil spirits
Intuitive Period (Primitive Era - 6th Century)
Believed that medicine man is called, having powers to heal using white magic.
Shaman
Witch Doctor
Gain their power from spirits
Shaman
Gain their power from life and health
Witch Doctor
In this period, ______ or ______ was often used to drive away spirits
Music or Singing
Is one of the oldest surgical procedures known ti humanity and refers to a surgical procedure in which a circular piece of bone is drilled and excised, most commonly from human skull.
Trephination
It has been a medical technique used to relieve intracranial pressure and headaches
Trephination
Prehistoric Medical Practice in Intuitive Period (Primitive Era - 6th Century)
1.) Use of mercury
2.) Blood Letting with the use of leeches
3.) Lobotomies
4.) Heroin for headaches
5.) Electroconvulsive Therapy
6.) Cannibalistic Medical Practice
7.) Radium Water
8.) Ecraseur
9.) Plomage
10.) Peg Legs
11.) Morphine for teething
12.) Starvation for Aneurysms
13.) Hydroelectric Bath for Migraines
It is used as anti-parasitic drug, anti-syphilis, anti-pruritic, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory drug, diuretics, dental amalgams, and substitutes.
Mercury
Used of Mercury
The application of a living leech to the skin in order to initiate blood flow or deplete blood from localized area of the body
Blood Letting
Blood letting with the use of leeches
The consumption of part of the human body, dead or alive, to treat or prevent diseases.
Cannibalistic Medical Practice
The medical trade and pharmacological use of human body parts and fluid often arose from the belief that because human body is able to heal itself, it can also help heal another human body.
Cannibalistic Medical Practice
Rise of the early civilization and ancient cities and their contributions to medicine
Mesopotamia
Egypt
India
China
Greece and Roman Empire
No distinction between rational science and magic
Mesopotamia
Introduced the method of therapy and cause.
Which ancient city contributed this?
Diagnostic Handbook
Mesopotamia
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 patient with its diagnosis and prognosis
Diagnostic Textbook
Medical Authority / Exorcist - Healer
Asipu
An attempt to prevent diseases
Prophylaxis
