Early Christian Influences On The Development Of Professional Nursing

Nursing as it is today was not during the primitive years. . There was no formal education for the people during the primitive years. During those times, people always believe that illnesses and death were caused by the evil spirit, although some countries such as Africa still believe that evil spirit is responsible for illness and death today. In those times caregiving role were assigned to females. Women were presumed to be nurturance to their infant and therefore should provide care to the sick, poor and injured in the community. Mothers would gather herbs and other remedies to care for their sick family members. . The role of early Christians is one of the factor that influenced the development of professional nursing. During the early Christian period, nursing began to have a formal and more defined role in the society” (Taylor, Lillies, Lynn, Lemone, 2010 p. 7). Helping and caring for others were the main focus of the early Christians. Women who called “deaconess” were send to care for the sick, poor and the injured. They organized visit to the sick and poor people and give nursing …show more content…
Nursing profession as we know today begin in the middle of the 19th century and the 20th century because of social reforms which changed the roles of nurses and of women in general ((Taylor, Lillies, Lynn, Lemone, 2010 p. 7 ). “In the 19th century, Florence Nightingale, daughter of wealthy British parents, was educated in history, philosophy, literature, mathematics (statistics), French, German, Italian, Greek and Latin” (Chernenko S., 2013). She leave her traditional female role and found comfort in her religious belief. Her religious belief was to end human suffering. Despite her family against nursing, her parents believed that caring for the sick and poor was improper for a woman of her class. That did not stop her from to training as a nurse at the age of