Fundamentals of Nursing Care Concepts, Connections
Covers nursing history, scope of practice, education paths, professionalism, key theorists, Dr. Jean Watson’s caring theory, and QSEN patient-centered care focus.
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Fundamentals
of Nursing Care Chapter 1
Concepts, Connections & Skills
History of Nursing
■ Ancient history
• 1000 AD— Nursing provided by the family,
and priests
• Salerno, Italy— Allowed women to study midwifery
■ Christianity
• Convents trained people to care for the sick
• Deaconesses were the first public health nurses
■ Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
• "Sairey Gamps": Poor and the low class that
cared for the sick
Fundamentals
of Nursing Care Chapter 1
Concepts, Connections & Skills
History of Nursing
■ Ancient history
• 1000 AD— Nursing provided by the family,
and priests
• Salerno, Italy— Allowed women to study midwifery
■ Christianity
• Convents trained people to care for the sick
• Deaconesses were the first public health nurses
■ Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
• "Sairey Gamps": Poor and the low class that
cared for the sick
History of Nursing: Rise of Modern Nursing
■ 1836: First school of nursing
• Kaiserworth deaconesses
• Founder: Pastor Theodore Fliedner
■ Florence Nightingale
■ 1897
• Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United States,
Baltimore, Maryland: Oversaw nurses to protect
patients from incompetent nurses
■ Early twentieth century
• States begin to require licensure of nurses
• Requirements for entering nursing school were
established
• The American Journal of Nursing was published
• 1892: First training program for practical nurses
Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA)
- Established to meet the need for educated bedside
nurses
~ The program was 3 months long
- Focused on homemaking skills and caring for the sick
■ 1836: First school of nursing
• Kaiserworth deaconesses
• Founder: Pastor Theodore Fliedner
■ Florence Nightingale
■ 1897
• Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United States,
Baltimore, Maryland: Oversaw nurses to protect
patients from incompetent nurses
■ Early twentieth century
• States begin to require licensure of nurses
• Requirements for entering nursing school were
established
• The American Journal of Nursing was published
• 1892: First training program for practical nurses
Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA)
- Established to meet the need for educated bedside
nurses
~ The program was 3 months long
- Focused on homemaking skills and caring for the sick
Women Who Molded Nursing History
■ Clara Barton: First President of the Red Cross
Association
■ Dorothea Dix: Activist for better mental health
care
■ Florence Nightingale: First nursing theorist
started the Nightingale School of Nursing
■ Mary Mahoney: First African American nurse
in the United States
■ Linda Richards: First "trained nurse" in the US.
Founder of modern nurse's notes
■ Isabel Hampton Robb: Activist for nursing
reform in the late 1800s. Established 12-hour
shifts with meal breaks for nurses. Worked for
licensure examinations and nursing
registration
■ Mary Adelaide Nutting, Lillian Wald, Annie
Goodrich: Made great strides in nursing
education and community health nursing
■ Clara Barton: First President of the Red Cross
Association
■ Dorothea Dix: Activist for better mental health
care
■ Florence Nightingale: First nursing theorist
started the Nightingale School of Nursing
■ Mary Mahoney: First African American nurse
in the United States
■ Linda Richards: First "trained nurse" in the US.
Founder of modern nurse's notes
■ Isabel Hampton Robb: Activist for nursing
reform in the late 1800s. Established 12-hour
shifts with meal breaks for nurses. Worked for
licensure examinations and nursing
registration
■ Mary Adelaide Nutting, Lillian Wald, Annie
Goodrich: Made great strides in nursing
education and community health nursing
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