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Lesson 1 - History of Spiritual Care in Nursing Flashcards

1
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is an important law code made in Mesopotamia during the reign of the Babylonians

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Code of Hammurabi

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the first law code that included laws to deal with everyone in the current society.​

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Code of Hammurabi

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discovered the curative value of many plants led to nursing therapeutics employing herbology

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China

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Perfected the art of handwashing and included a role for the male nurse

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India

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Ancient druidic priests and priestess advised on care and healing in illness

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Ireland

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contained a strong element of religious magic in its origin

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Egypt

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Egyptians perfected the art of ___

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embalming or mummification

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the first physician

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Imhotep

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was a medical textbook on instinctive nursing care

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Ebers Papyrus​

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was largely the responsibility of members of the patient’s own family or slaves​

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Greece

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instructed caregivers to “use their eyes and ears, and to reason from facts rather than from assumptions

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Hippocrates

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some things that Hippocrates taught

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fluid diet only should be given in fevers

cold sponging for high temperatures

hot gargles for acute tonsillitis

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13
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religious mythology introduced the concept of women’s involvement in the healing arts

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Greece

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14
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the God of Healing

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Aesculapius

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the Goddess of Health

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Hygeia

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the Restorer of Health

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Panacea

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17
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Natural or folk remedies was used in the care of the sick in households​

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Rome

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Roman Elder found the treatment and care of gout, colic, indigestion, constipation, and pain in the side​

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Cato

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some conditions Cato cared for

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gout
colic
indigestion
constipation
pain in the side​

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gods were offered libations in petition for favors related to health and illness needs​

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Rome

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21
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One of the first recorded acts of nursing heroism and courage

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Veronica of Jerusalem

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22
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Present during Christ’s painful journey to Calvary and cleansed the bleeding face of Jesus with her veil​

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Veronica of Jerusalem

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23
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Often cited as a model for nurses

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Veronica of Jerusalem

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24
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Among the first “titled” followers of Jesus for whom care of the sick and infirm was identified​

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Deacons and Deaconesses

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25
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Jesus exhorted to give a ___ so these early disciples of Christianity opened their homes to those in need of physical and emotional care​

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“cup of cold water” in His name

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One of the first recorded acts of nursing heroism and courage​

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Deacons and Deaconesses or giving a cup of cold water in His name

27
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Women who converted to Christianity and used their power and wealth to support charitable work of nursing the sick​

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Roman Matrons

28
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founded hospitals and convents, living ascetic lives dedicated to the care of the ill and infirm​

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Roman Matrons

29
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Some Roman matrons were ___

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St. Helena
St. Paula
St. Marcella​

30
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started the first “gerokomion” or home for the aged infirm in the Roman Empire

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Flavia Helena or St. Helena

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means home for the aged infirm in the Roman Empire

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gerokomion

32
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founded the first hospice for pilgrims in Bethlehem

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St. Paula

33
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She managed the institutions and personally nursed the tired and the sick for almost 20 years.

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St. Paula

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Founded a community of religious women whose primary concern was care of the sick poor.​

Devoted her life to charitable works and prayer.

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St. Marcella

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Founded the Holy Cross Monastery. Established a hospice and cared lovingly and tenderly those afflicted with leprosy

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St. Ragunde

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A cultured and scholarly woman, directed her monastic community in the care of the sick including the lepers

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St. Hilda

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Founded the great monastery of Kildare, where the ill were received with charity and compassion

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St. Brigid

38
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Learned a great deal on illness and healing during internship of nursing in Disibodenberg infirmary.

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Hildegard of Bingen

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Considered the patron of those who tend the sick. Gave words of sympathy when he could not give words of hope

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St. Francis of Assisi

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St. Francis would be sending the diseased and deformed to her and her nuns who nursed them in little huts of mud and branches.

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St. Clare of Assisi

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A princess of Thuringia who, after her husband’s death in the Crusades, entered the Third Order of St. Francis and committed her life to the care of the sick poor.

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St. Elizabeth of Hungary

42
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Known to contemporary healthcare providers as the “Patroness of Nursing,” entered the Tertiaries of St. Dominic while still in her teens​

During the Black Plague epidemic in 1372, she walked night and day in the wards, only resting for a few hours and then in an adjacent house

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St. Catherine of Siena

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became concerned about the lack of care for the poor and needy especially the sick poor in 17th century France​

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St. Vincent de Paul

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He began gathering together a band of laity to visit and care for the sick and the poor, naming them the ___

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Confraternity of Charity​

45
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Vincent de Paul’s order

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Daughters of Charity of ​ St. Vincent de Paul​

46
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a wealthy widow, was directed by Vincent to become the first leader of the small community.

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Louise de Marillac

47
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The American Sisters of Charity, followers of the vision of St. Vincent de Paul was founded by ___, an Episcopalian, who served the poor first with the Protestant Sisters of Charity then later converted to Catholicism.​

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Elizabeth Bayley Seton

48
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established a building of classrooms, dormitories, a clinic, and a chapel labeling it the “House of Mercy”​

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Catherine McAuley

49
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obtained permission to visit the wards of several Dublin hospitals with her nuns to bring consolation to the patients​

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Catherine McAuley

50
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___ were sent to the Crimea by the English government and labored with Florence Nightingale​

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The Sisters of Mercy

51
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Protestant community of women with a primary ministry of nursing the sick was founded by a young Lutheran Minister

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Theodore Fleidner​

52
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Protestant community of women with a primary ministry of nursing the sick

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Kaiserswerth Deaconesses

53
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Together with his wife, ___, they gathered a group of women who would visit and nurse the sick poor in their homes​

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Frederika Munster

54
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The four key branches of Kaiser and Frederika’s work were described as:

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nursing
relief of the poor
care of children
work among unfortunate women

55
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The role of the contemporary Lutheran deaconess is to ___

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“serve God’s people through spiritual care and works of mercy.’​

56
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Kaiserwerth Deconesses’ ministry centers on the concepts of ___ as well as a sense of ___

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“agape love and love of neighbor”

“mercifulness and community”​

57
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Is Florence Nightingale’s community considered a religious “order”​?

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No

58
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was one of the first to bring spirituality and science together to improve the care of the sick​

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Florence Nightingale

59
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Central to Nightingale’s spirituality was her belief in ___

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the greatness of God, as the “Spirit of Truth”​

60
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was one of the greatest nursing heroines during the first world war who moved to Brussels, Belgium in order to become director of a new school of nursing.​

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Edith Cavell

61
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She began to cooperate with underground efforts to try and save the lives of wounded Allied soldiers whom the occupation forces planned to either kill or imprison.​

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Edith Cavell

62
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Edith Cavell’s last recorded words before her death were contained in this assertion:

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“I have nothing to regret. If I had to do it over again, I would do just as I did.”​

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