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Nursing History

Nursing History. Nursing Concepts. Why history?. "Connecting the past with the present allows us to catch a glimpse of the future.". Job description: floor nurses 1887. In addition to caring for your 50 patients, each nurse will follow these regulations:. Job description: floor nurses 1887.

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Nursing History

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  1. Nursing History Nursing Concepts

  2. Why history? • "Connecting the past with the present allows us to catch a glimpse of the future."

  3. Job description: floor nurses 1887 • In addition to caring for your 50 patients, each nurse will follow these regulations:

  4. Job description: floor nurses 1887 • Daily sweep and mop the floors of your ward, dust the patient's furniture and window sills.

  5. Job description: floor nurses 1887 • Maintain an even temperature in your ward by bringing in a scuttle of coal for the day's business.

  6. Job description: floor nurses 1887 • Light is important to observe the patient's condition. Therefore, each day fill kerosene lamps, clean chimneys and trim wicks. Wash the windows once a week.

  7. Job description: floor nurses 1887 • The nurse's notes are important in aiding the physician's work. Make your pens carefully; you may whittle nibs to your individual taste.

  8. Job description: floor nurses 1887 • Each nurse on day duty will report every day at 7 a.m. and leave at 8 p.m. except on the Sabbath on which day you will be off from 12 noon to 2 p.m.

  9. Job description: floor nurses 1887 • Graduate nurses in good standing with the director of nurses will be given an evening off each week for courting purposes or two evenings a week if you go regularly to church.

  10. Job description: floor nurses 1887 • Each nurse should lay aside from each pay day a goodly sum of her earnings for her benefits during her declining years so that she will not become a burden. For example, if you earn $30 a month you should set aside $15.

  11. Job description: floor nurses 1887 • Any nurse who smokes, uses liquor in any form, gets her hair done at a beauty shop, or frequents dance halls will give the director of nurses good reason to suspect her worth, intentions and integrity.

  12. Job description: floor nurses 1887 • The nurse who performs her labors and serves her patients and doctors without fault for five years will be given an increase of five cents a day, providing there are no hospital debts outstanding

  13. Nursing • “a woman employed to suckle and/or generally care for a younger child” • Wet nurse • Dry nurse • Nourishing • promoting quality of life.

  14. 17th century • Prior to the foundation of modern nursing • Nuns /monks • Prostitutes (women who followed the army) • Criminals

  15. Nursing • “The oldest of arts and the youngest of professions” • (Donahue,1996)

  16. Florence Nightingale • "The Lady with the Lamp", • Crimean War • book Notes on Nursing • Nursing  respectable profession • 1860 est school of nursing

  17. Theodore Fliedner • 1853 • Set up a hospital with nurses of a good nature • Led to “British Institute of Nursing Sisters”

  18. James Derham 1757-1802 • was the first African-American to formally practice medicine in the United States • Derham was born into slavery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • By working as a nurse, he purchased his freedom by 1783. • He opened a medical practice

  19. Mary Jane Seacole • 1805 – 1881 • Crimean War • "a woman who succeeded despite the racial prejudice of influential sections of Victorian society". • autobiography, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857),

  20. Clara Barton • Civil War Nurse • Organized the American Red Cross • 1881

  21. Louisa May Alcott • Author • Little Women • Civil War Nurse

  22. Linda Richards • 1st professionally trained American nurse • Est. nursing training programs • USA • Japan • created 1st individual medical records system

  23. DOROTHEA DIX • 1802 -1887 • American activist for mentally ill • homeless • created 1st American mental asylums • Superintendent of Army Nurses • Civil war

  24. Ellen Dougherty • 1844 to 1919, • first Registered Nurse in the world • 1st country to establish a nursing registry • New Zealand • 1901

  25. Mary Eliza Mahoney • 1st African American nurse graduate • 1879 • National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses • Co-founded 1908.

  26. Unite States Nursing Registry • 1st State to pass nursing licensure law • North Carolina • 1903

  27. The Nightingale • 1886 - The Nightingale, the first American nursing journal, is published.

  28. The Nightingale Pledge • 1893 – • composed by Lystra Gretter • is first used by the graduating class (at the old Harper Hospital in Detroit, Michigan)

  29. The Nightingale Pledge • I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully.

  30. I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug.

  31. I will do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession, and will hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping and all family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling.

  32. With loyalty will I endeavor to aid the physician, in his work, and devote myself to the welfare of those committed to my care.

  33. America Nurses Association • 1st meeting • 1897

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