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History Of Nursing: An Ongoing Story
Author : Marianne Conway
Nursing emerged as a profession during the Dark Ages in Europe, when Catholic monks provided a broad spectrum of medical care for plague victims. As a discrete discipline within the practice of medicine, nursing can trace its roots to the year 1633 with the advent of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. Calling themselves “Servants of the Sick Poor,” the Daughters of Charity provided health assistance to the poor in their homes and in the wards of the city hospital in Paris, France. Their primary purpose was to provide comfort, hygienic assistance and emotional support to people who had no way of paying for necessary home health care.
The history of nursing was changed forever in the 1800s during the Crimean War by one woman: Florence Nightingale. Because of her nightly rounds with a lantern, Florence Nightingale became affectionately known by the soldiers as the “Lady with the lamp.” It was Florence Nightingale who made the discovery that providing adequate sanitation and clean air could significantly reduce mortality in hospitals. She is credited with exerting a positive influence in sanitary hospital design which permanently reduced patient mortality around the world. Since Florence Nightingale was well-educated and because she was from an affluent family, her professional dedication suddenly thrust nursing on the world stage as a socially acceptable vocation for women. Her final gift to the history of nursing was to open the Nightingale Training School for Nurses in 1860. Graduates of the Nightingale School for Nurses and Midwifery, now a part of King's College in London, are still highly valued today by hospitals around the world.
While home health care continues to be a major nursing specialty, other specialties now include psychiatric, pediatric, geriatric, obstetric, cardiac and palliative care. Because the practice of nursing is defined by the needs of the individual patient, these specialties are always expanding and changing as health care needs expand and change. With the world facing an increasingly critical international shortage of nurses, the next chapter in the history of nursing is waiting to be written by the nurses of tomorrow.
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Nursing emerged as a profession during the Dark Ages in Europe, when Catholic monks provided a broad spectrum of medical care for plague victims. As a discrete discipline within the practice of medicine, nursing can trace its roots to the year 1633 with the advent of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. Calling themselves “Servants of the Sick Poor,” the Daughters of Charity provided health assistance to the poor in their homes and in the wards of the city hospital in Paris, France. Their primary purpose was to provide comfort, hygienic assistance and emotional support to people who had no way of paying for necessary home health care.
The history of nursing was changed forever in the 1800s during the Crimean War by one woman: Florence Nightingale. Because of her nightly rounds with a lantern, Florence Nightingale became affectionately known by the soldiers as the “Lady with the lamp.” It was Florence Nightingale who made the discovery that providing adequate sanitation and clean air could significantly reduce mortality in hospitals. She is credited with exerting a positive influence in sanitary hospital design which permanently reduced patient mortality around the world. Since Florence Nightingale was well-educated and because she was from an affluent family, her professional dedication suddenly thrust nursing on the world stage as a socially acceptable vocation for women. Her final gift to the history of nursing was to open the Nightingale Training School for Nurses in 1860. Graduates of the Nightingale School for Nurses and Midwifery, now a part of King's College in London, are still highly valued today by hospitals around the world.
While home health care continues to be a major nursing specialty, other specialties now include psychiatric, pediatric, geriatric, obstetric, cardiac and palliative care. Because the practice of nursing is defined by the needs of the individual patient, these specialties are always expanding and changing as health care needs expand and change. With the world facing an increasingly critical international shortage of nurses, the next chapter in the history of nursing is waiting to be written by the nurses of tomorrow.
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Submitted : 2011-06-12 Word Count : 700 Popularity: 20 Times Viewed: 51
