Week 1-2

Middle eastern culture

• China
• Palestine
• India

Nursing as we think of it today began to develop.

There is a strong relationship between religion and nursing

• Several non-monastic orders were developed in Europe.

• Many Catholic monasteries were destroyed
• during the rise of Protestantism.

• Barbers, without medical training, were
• performing surgeries and medical treatment.

Protestants established hospitals.

• KAISERWORTH GERMANY.

• established training for private duty nurses in England and, in 1840 some of the nurses
• would accompany Florence Nightingale to the CRIMEAN war.

• established the first U.S. nursing training school in New York in 1857. She was known as the first United
• States Woman to Receive her M.D.

Known for her work with the mentally ill.

• Community Health Nursing was established in
• the United States and England.

• organized the American Red Cross. Earlier, at the age of forty she had given care to the
• wounded and ill soldiers during the Civil War.

She was well thought of and was referred to as the “ Angel of the Battlefield “.

• She was so loved by the soldiers that many of them went home from the war and named
• children after her.

• This was the precursor to the American Nurses Association.

• Expanded Nurses training to three years. This met with much opposition. Mary also is
• credited with shortening the workdays for nurses.

• was a school teacher but changed to a Nurse and trained in New York. She Authored a Nursing Textbook that became a standard book for Nursing schools in America

• In Florence Italy in 1820

• The Crimean war was fought in Turkey (England, France and Turkey against Russia.)

• Florence is credited with decreasing the death rate from 42% to 2% by simply giving humane care and using soap, water and clean linen.

• was a black Jamaican nurse who worked alongside Florence Nightingale.

The British government so that an institute of training nursing could be established.

Her focus was on Nursing Education!

nursing is a art and science

education is fundalmntal

• 1. Natural Laws
• 2. Nursing is a calling
• 3. Nursing is an art and a science
• 4. Nursing is achieved through environmental alterations
• 5. Nursing is distinct and separate from medicine
• 6. Environment
• 7. Person

Dr Blackwell school of nursing (1857) had very little in common with Florence Nightingale's. This was the time period where they took advantage of nursing students cheap labor.

First used in 1893 with graduates from a school in Detroit, Michigan.

Still used today.

•Caring for the soldiers in the Crimean war.

•Emphasis on Cleanliness.

• •Developing an educational model for training
• nurses worldwide.

• •A statistician and conducting nursing
• research.

died in 1910 at the age of 90.