Week 2 Flashcards
Why does Nursing History matters?
- enhance professional identity
- gives context to practice
Who were the original nurses
Nuns. (called sisters). They provided care for those who did not have a physician - the normal people. Associated w/ religion
Mary Rollet Herbert
- first lay nurse in New France (Quebec)
- was pointed by Jesuit Priests to provide settlers and Indigeneous people w/ nursing care
- she wasn’t in the nursing field
- wasn’t directly associated with a religion (didn’t attempt to save the soul of the patient)
- created her own herbs and chemicals to treat the people (indigeneous peoples’ knowledge of herbs and treatment)
Male Attendants originally called in the sick bay
Carers = care giver
Catholic Nursing Tradition
- Female religious order
- no training
- still just caregivers; nursing wasn’t seeing as a profession
- Jeanne Mance, Hotel Dieu de Quebec (1642, canada’s first hospital)
- 146 hospitals by 1946
- hospital administrators/ leaders were women
- St Augustinian Nurses (nuns) 1639 - care for the sick
: St Augustinan Nurses managed Hotel Dieu de Quebec
Jeanne mance
- Director of hotel de Lieu in 1642 (first hospital in canada)
- Came to New France 1641 (french nurse)
- the only actual person with healthcare knowledge at the time
St. Augustinian Nuns
- the first nurses in Canada
- 3 of them arrived in quebec in 1639
- religious related (FYI: this order was called to care for the sick as they would christ )
- The Augustinian community managed the Hotel de Lieu for more than three centuries
Nursing sisters (Catholic hospitals)
- nursing sisters put mission before profit
- they viewed their work as a spritual ministry
; they found creative ways to push against the hierachical boundaries of the church (where women were expected to be subservient to bishops and priests)
Expansion of Catholic Hospitals Across Canada
- Female religious orders in the province of Quebec
- Charitable institutions
- Devoted to the care of the ill
- Spiritual Ministry “were out to win souls through hospital care”
- Nuns assigned to diff caregiving roles
- Sister Saint Martin - excelled at sugery: performed an amputation
- Nursing sisteres’ religious identities - leaders - few employment opportunities
Sister St. Martin
Perforemd an amputation successfully as a lay-person (non-surgeon)
Indian Hospital (1890s-1945)
- an initial purpose was to reduce the prevalence and tuberculosis spread
- grey nuns = the sister of charity of montreal
- unequal health care/ underfunded, overcrowded, understaffed
- many of them housed in residential schools & military barracks
- lacked basic amenities (e.g. laundry and kitchen facilities)
- some of the highest morbidity/ mortality rates in the country (tuberculosis crisis)
Grey Nuns
- Founded by Marie-Margueirte d’Youville
- Formed in 1738
- Provided care with charitable intentions
How is Indian Hospital similar to residential schools?
- assimlate indegnous peoples into the Euro-Canadian society
- Taking away their own healing practices, replacing w/ biomedicine
- segregation/ colonial practices negatively influenced individuals, fam, and communities
Decolonizing health care
- Canadian nurses indigenous association
- Advocated for Indigenous control over indigenous health care
- Expanded indigenous Nurses caring for their people
- Transformed the relationship between the indigenous people and the gov
- more work can be done to address inequities in nursing and health care
Florence Nightingale
- founder of modern day nursing
- nurded during the war in Crimea
- Also known as the Lady w/ the lamp
- believed in aseptic technique to reduce mortality rates
- the Nightingale fund was used to create the first school of nursing
- contributed in a hygine (hand-washing and cleaning) knowledge development
Name two areas of nursing care that Florence Nightingale influenced
- infection rates; implemented hygiene standards and hand washing
- advocated for education for nurses; apprenticeship training model
