Nursing and the healthcare system L1 Ch1

Florence Nightingale, Founder of modern nursing did this:

• Crimean war

• lowered mortality from 60 to 1%

• funded by family and service members

• Had recordkeeping + holistic beliefs in sanitation, nutrition and therapy

• Had a distinction between nursing and medicine

Nighteningale curriculum was based on the following beliefs:

• Nutrition

• Clean air

• occupational + recreational therapy

• Nurses should identify + meet patients personal needs

• health + illness

• nursing is distinct, and separate from medicine, and should be taught by nurses

• continuing education

Nurses in North America had:

• No set curriculum

• Hospitals staff were worked without pay, no classes, education was achieved through work

Who were the pioneers of nursing in North America?

• Dorothea Dix

• Clara Burton

• Lillian Walk with Mary Brewster

Ballard school in North America

• open in 1892

• 3 month course training to take care of: infants, children and older adults in homes

League of nursing in North America

• 1893

• issued standard curriculum for practical nursing education

What happened in the 20th century

• moved out into the communities

• worked with the poor

• provided: midwifery, taught prenatal, obstetric, + child care

• Present during wartime