Nursing History Nursing Concepts
Mar 13, 2016
Nursing History
Nursing Concepts
Why history?
• "Connecting the past with the present allows us to catch a glimpse of the future."
17th century
• Before modern nursing–Nuns / monks–Prostitutes –Criminals
Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910)
• Founder of Modern Nursing• "The Lady with the Lamp", • Crimean War – book Notes on Nursing
• 1860 est school of nursing
Theodore Fliedner(1800-1864)
• 1853 - Set up 1st hospital with nurses
• Led to “British Institute of Nursing Sisters”
James Derham 1757-1802
• 1st African-American to formally practice medicine in the U.S.
• Born into slavery • Owned by several doctors - worked as a nurse• Purchased his freedom 1783 • Opened a medical practice
Mary Jane Seacole(1805 – 1881)
• Crimean War • succeeded despite racial
prejudice • autobiography,
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857)
Clara Barton(1821 – 1912)
• Civil War Nurse• Organized the
American Red Cross
• 1881
DOROTHEA DIX1802 - 1887
• Am. activist for mentally ill• created 1st Am. mental
asylums• Civil War: Superintendent
of Army Nurses
Louisa May Alcott(1832 – 1888)
• Civil War Nurse• Author–Little Women
Linda Richards(1842 – 1930)
• 1st professionally trained American nurse• Est. nursing schools –USA & Japan
• Created 1st individual medical records system
Mary Eliza Mahoney(1845 – 1926)
• 1st African American nurse graduate - 1879
• Co-founded: National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (1908)
Ellen Dougherty(1844 – 1919)
• first Registered Nurse in the world
• 1st country to establish a nursing registry–New Zealand–1901
Unite States Nursing Registry
• 1st State to pass nursing licensure law
• North Carolina– 1903
• All US states– 1923
The Nightingale
• 1886 - The Nightingale, the first American nursing journal, is published.
The Nightingale Pledge
• Composer–Lystra Gretter
• 1st used by the 1893 graduating class –Michigan
The Nightingale Pledge
• I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully.
The Nightingale Pledge
• I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully.
serious
The Nightingale Pledge
• I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully.
Binding Promise
The Nightingale Pledge
• I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully.
Free from guilt
The Nightingale Pledge
• I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully.
Devoted, trustworthy
• I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug.
Having a harmful effect; injurious
• I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug.
Troublesome; irritating: Causing harm, injury,
or damage
• I will do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession, and will hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping and all family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling.
• I will do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession, and will hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping and all family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling.
Trust that privacy maintained
• With loyalty will I endeavor to aid the physician, in his work, and devote myself to the welfare of those committed to my care.
• With loyalty will I endeavor to aid the physician, in his work, and devote myself to the welfare of those committed to my care.
Allegiance, devoted, steady
America Nurses Association
•1st meeting–1897
Nursing Today (RN)
•Median pay–$66,640 / yr–$32.04 / hr
Nursing Today (RN)
• # Jobs–2, 751,000
• Growth rate–16%