HISTORY OF NURSING Flashcards
(115 cards)
instinctive or untaught; largely based on common sense based on effects of past experience, not based on scientific training or formal education
INTUITIVE NURSING
custodian or nurse in nomadic tribes
women
evil invasion; voodoo or black magic
illness
( witch doctor/medicine man) – has white magic ( healing power )
Shaman
hole drilled in the skull via rock or stone without anesthesia
Trephination
- Roots of Western civilization
- Birthplace of Judaism, Christianity, and Mohammedanism
NURSING IN THE NEAR EAST
Metropolis of the near East
Babylonia
ruler from 1945 B.C. to 1902 B.C.
King Hammurabi
no mention of nursing; provided laws that covered every facet of Babylonian life including medical practice
Code of Hammurabi
Embalming was introduced; Record of 250 diseases; Still no mention of nursing
Egypt
strongly believes in spirits and demons
china
❖Prescribed methods of treating wounds, infections, and muscular afflictions
Materia Medica ( Pharmacology )
No mention of nursing but presumed female as in-charge of nursing the sick
China
- Men of medicine built hospitals
- Practice intuitive form of asepsis
INDIA
absence of bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms.
Asepsis
Proficient in the practice of __________ and _________.
medicine
surgery
Nursing was first mentioned in this era, by the first
lay brothers or the priest nurses
India
(written 200 or 300 B.C.) made a list of functions and qualifications of the priest-nurses
Sushurutu/Susruta
described as combination of pharmacists, masseurs, physical therapists and cooks.
priest-nurses
Contributed to the decline of medical practice
when the religion itself fell in this era.
Buddhism
- Nursing was task of untrained slave
- Women were considered inferior to men.
GREECE
Father of Medicine in Greek Mythology
Aesculapius
- Symbol of identity of medical profession today.
- Composed of the staff travelers intertwined with 2 serpents
Caduceus
Father of Medicine in Reality
- Was given the title father of medicine due to his
notable contributions to medical practice.
- Developed philosophy of medicine and
practiced medical ethics.
- Rejected the belief that the origin of disease
could be found in the supernatural.
- Did not entrust care of the sick to untrained lay
persons but to medical students; so the role of nurses wasn’t also mentioned.
Hippocrates