Week 1: History/Imagines of Nursing Flashcards
A nurse who displays self-less concern for others is exhibiting one of the following?
A. Accountability
B. Altruism
C. Responsibility
D. Autonomy
Altruism
In early civilization women were _______________
hired by privileged families to care for the sick and to assist with childbirth; Shiphrah and Puah were midwives who saved the baby Moses
___________ carried a staff intertwined with serpents, representing wisdom and immorality
Aesclepius
____________→ father of medicine
Hippocrates
In early civilization in India public hospitals were staffed by ______
males nurses
The first military hospital was in Europe in Rome.
Military hospitals were exclusively ______
men who, developed to care for the injured
During the first bubonic plague, the ______ took care of people
Catholic church: Nuns, and monks cared for the bulk of sick or orphaned
In the middle age, wives of emperors and other wealthy women could become nurses: mostly midwives. seen as_______
Seen as charitable works
_________ were orders during Crusades to be nurses
Male Military
The cross used during the _______became a badge and forerunner for the design of many health care emblems and nursing pins.
Crusades
During the dark ages of nursing ______
Nursing no longer appealed to women of high social status; care of the sick was regulated to common women who wer perceived as no better than prisoners, thieves, alcoholics, and prostitutes
Reformation decreased availability of monks & nuns who cared for sick in middle ages
In the _______Nursing was considered an undesirable job with poor pay, long hours, and strenuous work that was considered menial.
renaissance period
Religious nursing orders grew out of great concern for _______
social welfare
Sisters of Charity—recruited _______ for nurse training, developed educational programs and cared for abandoned children. For centuries to follow nurse training came from religious orders.
young women
In _____ Florence Nightingale attended Kaiserswerth to train as a nurse
1851
In 1854 Florence nightingale
lead nurses in the Crimean War
________ ended military men being nurses
Florence Nightingale
Nightingale required her nurses to be _______
white women who is single
___________ was a Black nurse from Jamaica who played a major role in the Crimean War
Was denied the opportunity to join Nightingale’s nursing brigade because she was Black
Opened a lodging house with her own money to care for sick and wounded soldiers
Contributed to control of the cholera epidemic through extensive knowledge in tropical medicine
Honored by the Jamaican government and the British Commonwealth with a medal for saving the lives of countless sick and wounded soldiers
Mary Seacole
white women were accepted before
black men and black women
______ was the founder of prof nursing. Introduced principles of asepsis and infection control, a system for transcribing physician’s orders, and a system to maintain patient records
Florence Nightingale
In the civil war period there were _____ nurses that served in the war
2,000
__________ A teacher appointed to organize military hospitals, provide trained nurses, and disperse supplies; she received no official status and no salary for this position
- she was much into mental health
Dorothea Dix
_____was a teacher originally, then a social reformer. Age 39 helped in civil war as superintendent of nurses in the army, no formal nurse training available yet. Also founded asylums for the indigent and mentally ill.
Dorthea Dix
