Past, Present, Futures of Nursing Flashcards
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A calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long/intensive academic preparation
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Profession (Valued profession)
The need for RN’s is expected to increase by 16% from 2014-2024
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The work that a person does regularly in order to earn money
Work done regularly for pay
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Job/Occupation
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Professions -
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College or Uni Prolonged Education Mental Creativity Strong Commitment Autonomous Unlikely to change professions Individual Accountability
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Occupations -
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On the job training Length varies Largely manual work Guided decision making Commitment may vary Supervised Often change jobs Motivated by $ Employer is primarily accountable
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- Educated for 3 months in Germany in a church-run hospital
- Founder of modern nursing
- Led nurses to Crimean War to care for soldiers
- “The Lady of the Lamp”
- She is a statistician/developed rose diagram
- Improved sanitation in hospitals
- published “Notes on Nursing”
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Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
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- Jamaican healer/doctress
- Offered her services to Florence Nightingale during Crimean War but was denied
- Worked voluntary with her own resources
- Recognized as a significant minority nurse
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Mary Seacole (1808-1881)
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- Author, teacher, and social reformer
- reformed conditions of mentally ill and prisoners (The Asylum Movement)
- During Civil War she was the superintendent of Nurses for the Union Army
- After war she continued to reform the treatment of mentally ill
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Dorothea Dix (1802-1887)
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- Was a teacher, not a nurse
- Cared for her brother which inspired her
- opened a free public school in 1852
- Distributed food and medication during Civil War
- Head nurse w/o formal training
- Founded American Red Cross in 1881
- 1st president of American Red Cross
- Founded the National First Aid Associations of American in 1905
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Clara Barton (1821-1912)
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- Graduated and worked at New England Hospital for Women and Children
- 16 month program; only 4 of 42
- First African American to earn a nursing license
- Leader for the Howard Orphan Asylum for Black Children
- 1st A.A trained nurse in U.S
- Broke barrier so minority nurses could be accepted into school
- Members of American Nurse Association (ANA)
- 1908, co-founded National Association of Color Graduate Nurses (NACGN)
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Mary Elizabeth Mahoney (1845-1926)
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- Graduate of New York Hospital School of Nursing - 1891
- Wealthy woman w/ social conscience
- Went to Med school at Woman’s Medical College
- Home visit changed her life, dropped medical school
- Founded Henry Street Settlement w/ Mary Brewster
- 1st public health nurse
- Devoted life to public health and a vision of a better world
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Lillian D. Wald (1867-1940)
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- Nursing school at Uni of Colorado
- Nurse for US military (different bases in WWII)
- Recognized: shortage of pediatricians and family practices, lack or rural and urban healthcare, rise in healthcare costs
- started first nurse practitioner program in the U.S beside Dr. Henry Silver
- BSN, MSN, FNP, DNP - certified public nurse
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Loretta Ford (1920-)
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- Graduate 1st class of Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing in 1891
- Expanded curriculum in the school of nursing from 2-3 years
- added preclinical training period
- Limited number of hours nurses worked
- established professional and historical library at the school
- After the Spanish American War, assisted in establishing the Army Nurse Corps
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Mary Ann Nutting (1858-1948)
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- First trained nurse in America
- Graduated from New England Hospital for Women and Children Training
- Reorganized nursing program there
- Rallied against physician opposition in the training of nurses
- Mentored by Nightingale
- Created Night shift nursing
- Contributed to creation of first written patient reports
- Started Japan’s 1st nursing proram
- started nursing programs in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Massachusetts
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Linda Richards (1841-1930)
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History
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- earliest nurses were nuns, monks, and priests
- Sisters of Mercy Order originated in 1830s by Roman Catholic Church in Dublin
- Nursing care was delivered in monasteries
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History cont.
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- The value of nursing was diminished during the Protestant Revolution
- Was considered unrespectable
- Daughters of Charity
