11-20 Flashcards
Common image of a nurse, serene and content, shown with halo and other religious symbols.
Angel of mercy
treated ill with mixture of physical care, prayer, and magical spells
Priests and priestesses
most ancient books of the Hindu Faith, provide a detailed description of Indian Healthcare Practices, and distinct nursing occupation.
Vedas
physician, surgeon team, details the roles of the physician, drugs and patient
Characa and Samhita
They indicated that nurses of that period were always male and part of the priestly order
Characa and Samhita
the oldest continuously existing hospital in the US, early Christian Hospital in the 1st century, where all training programs for nurses were affiliated with religious orders until well after the Civil war.
Hotel Dieu in Lyons, France
Depicts the nurse as a woman assisting a male physician at the bedside of a patient.
Handmaiden
Physician in a dominant role, nurse awaiting in anticipation for the physician’s orders or supporting the patient while physician provides car
Handmaiden
The values of service and devotion were lost when, from the 14th-16th century (Renaissance period), the influence of Christianity faded.
Battle-ax
personifies the contemporary image of the nurse as the battle-ax or torturer, treating her patients with cruelty and disdain.
Nurse Ratched
personified the view of nurses that people held at that time - she was corrupt, harsh, and frequently intoxicated.
Sairy Gamp
Municipal authorities took over hospitals, and criminals, sentenced to care for the sick in the hospitals in lieu of going to jail, assumed the nursing role.
Battle-ax, Renaissance period
he sexy, risque nurse was an image that arose in the early part of the 20th century with burlesque shows and persists in popular culture today.
Naughty nurse
Nursing imagery is often military, nurses, throughout the century, were frequently portrayed in uniform providing support at the battlefield.
Military battlefield caregiver
her contributions in public health and epidemiology (study of distribution and origins of disease) were among the first in such efforts.
Florence Nightingale
year when Nightingale stated that air, lighting, nutrition, and adequate ventilation and space assist the patient to recuperate.
1853
founded the Henry Street Settlement
Lilian Wald and Mary Brewster 1893
To be safe providers of care, nurses must carefully consider their actions, in reality a substantial portion of the nursing role involves thinking.
Full-spectrum nurse
(thinking skill)
observing, comparing, contrasting, evaluating client condition
clinical judgment
(thinking skill)
collecting and analyzing information and carefully considering options for action.
critical thinking, reflecting thinking
(thinking skill)
considering an issue and attempting to find a satisfactory solution
problem-solving
diseases and their causes and treatments were shrouded with mysticism and superstitions.
Early beliefs and practices
→ early Filipinos subscribed to superstition beliefs and practices in relation to health and sickness.
Early care of the sick
herbmen who practiced witchcraft, persons suffering from diseases without any identified cause were believed to be bewitched by the “mangkukulam” or “mangangaway”.
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