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Learning disintigrated
Nursing care given by friends & families
there was no scientific basis
Dark ages
Medicine was taught to women as well as men
growth in christianity
Convents performed health care
First public health nurse
Unable to meet basic needs, lacked fresh air, virtually nonexistant lighting, heating & plumbing, clothes washed in the river
Middle ages
Martin Luther opposed teaching in the church, nursing as a profession, Womans role
scientific method existed
convents closed religous orders abolished
Renaissance Period
Health problems; child labor, industrial accidents, poor working conditions
rats carried the bubonic plaque
poor died in plague the rich fled
women went to the hospitals for childbirth
increased mother & infant mortality rates
1st asceptic technique 1818-1865
After asceptic technique mother infant mortality rates started going down
Industrial Era
Ben Franklin initiated the building of the first hospital
conditions in hospitals were poor
People went to the hospital to die
insane people were sent to jail or the poorhouse
appalling living conditions
mortality rates increased
nursing was not a defined profession & had no supervision
it was disapproved for the upper class woman to work that was left to the poor
people with money kept their sick at home for care
Modern Nursing
Do you hate mindmaps as much as me?
yes
Known as the mother of modern medicine & also the lady with the lamp
Florence Nightingale
What war was Nightingale a part of
Crimean war
Nightingale decreased death rates by ____%
70 %
Nightingale established formal______ & the first three hospital schools in the US
schools
How long did Nightingale go to school for
3 months
Nightingale was known for her work with______
statistics
Clara Barton had no_____ _______
formal education
The Angel of the Battlefield was a nickname for
Clara Barton
During the civil war Barton treated ______on ______ ______of the war
wounded on both sides
Clara Barton was the first president of
the Red Cross
Barton based her work on the work of ________
Nightingale
Dorothea Dix was a ______ _____ _______
retired school teacher
Dix championed the developement of ________hospitals
psychiatric hospitals
Dix made improvements in healthcare in _______
prisons
Dix was appointed the ______superintendent of Nursing
Army
______staffed & equipted army hospitals
Dorothea Dix
____ _____was the first trained nurse to graduate after one year of schooling
Linda Richards
Richards was appointed superintendent of schools ____after graduating
1 yr
Richards served a medical mission in_____ & established the first hospital there
Japan
Developed the first format for patient charting
Richards
Richards worked as night supervisor at ____Hospital
Believe
Changed shifts from 24 hours to 12 hours for nurses
Isabelle Hampton Robb
Hampton-Robb fought for _____exams & _______
licensing & registration
graduated from the first class from John Hopkins school of nursing
Mary Adelaid Nutting
Nutting continued ______'s reform issues
Robb's
Nutting started the Nursing & Teaching College in _______
Columbia
Was instrumental in the ICN International Counsel of Nursing
Nutting
List 5 nursing trends
lethal viruses, terrorism, cultural diversity, telehealth, nursing shortages
What are 3 lethal viruses
HIV/Aids, Hanta virus, SARS
The treatment of this virus in Africa is a top priority of WHO
it is the most common virus
HIV/Aids
this virus is recent in North America, it is carried by rodents in their droppings, it is often mistaken for the flu but is not passed from person to person
Hanta Virus
This was the new deadly virus of 2003
started in Asia
manifests with a fever of 100.4 degrees or greater, it is flu like, use universal precautions
SARS
Name some examples of terrorism
9-11
embassy bombings
antharax
we must find ways to provide care no matter ____,_____, or socioeconomic status
race, ethnic
delivery of _____is a big issue in Cultural diversity
language
telehealth uses
technology
telephones can track
vitals
name some benefits of telehealth
cost effective
convenient
flexible
reduces costs
Nursing shortages are an _______event
international
by the year 2020 it is estimated we will have 20%____the nurses needed
less than
Why are there nursing shortages
woman have more emplyment options
lethal viruses
terrorism
what percent of nurses are women
90%
What does LPN stand for
Licensed Practical Nurse
What does LVN stand for
Licensed Vocational Nurse
What states use the term LVN instead of LPN
Texas & California
Which instructor was from CA & was called a LVN
Mrs Collier
How old is nursing
as old as humanity itself
_____comes from the Latin word nutricitus which means nourishing
Nursing
The _____model is focused on illness & cure
Medical Model
Who is the father of medicine
Hippocrates
Hippocrates was a _____scholar
Greek
In the Dark ages nursing care was practiced by
friends & family
Florence Nightingale was born in
Italy
Nightingale followed the nursing model which was focused on helping the patient to_____with their illness & promote______"caring"
cope health
wrote two books called
Notes on Nursing
Notes on Hospitals
Florence Nightingale
by what year did all states have licensure laws
1955
LPNs must be supervised by
RN, MD or dentist
the education required for an LPN is ___to___months
9-12mo