Many things this semester have influenced new thoughts and feelings for myself towards nursing. The history of nursing was interesting and not what I had predicted. Before this semester, I was concerned with retaining the majority of my education in order to practice safe nursing. I have learned that critical thinking, teamwork, and evidence based practice can be more effective. I have accomplished things I thought I couldn’t and grown from those experiences. My first semester has been positive. Nursing history was very interesting. I wasn’t shocked to learn it developed out of a need. I was surprised to learn the great sacrifice early nurses made to help people. I never applied the connection between safety and knowledge of diseases to the roots of nursing. I did not know the number one cause of death was infectious disease up until the 1950’s. (Wilkinson p. 5). People must have been aware of the dangers of early nursing, yet some still did it. For many years nursing was mostly voluntary work. It must have been difficult to care for others with no monetary compensation in time periods where life was harder. Organized nursing care must have required
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I just imagined the history of nursing containing only sacrificing, dedicated, women of integrity. I guess my image of nursing history was mainly of Florence Nightingale. She is inspiring in many ways. She was intuitively smart and pioneered many positive changes for nursing as a profession. So I was also surprised to learn that so many men were involved in the early history of nursing. Learning about the history of nursing makes me realize people of the past and today go into nursing for many different reasons and motivations. Regardless, people still deserve impeccable care, and the nurse should treat each patient as if they are their child, mother, or
I just imagined the history of nursing containing only sacrificing, dedicated, women of integrity. I guess my image of nursing history was mainly of Florence Nightingale. She is inspiring in many ways. She was intuitively smart and pioneered many positive changes for nursing as a profession. So I was also surprised to learn that so many men were involved in the early history of nursing. Learning about the history of nursing makes me realize people of the past and today go into nursing for many different reasons and motivations. Regardless, people still deserve impeccable care, and the nurse should treat each patient as if they are their child, mother, or