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IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR

PROJECT RESEARCH

THE DEVELOPMENT OF TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT

NEEDED IN THE PRACTICE OF NURSING PROFESSION :

A HISTORICAL RESEARCH

STEM 12-B

SUBMITTED BY:

QUEENY T. COTEJAR

SUBMITTED TO:

ENGR. REYNANTE PONAY

INTRODUTION
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Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individual

families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and

quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their

approach to patient care,training, and scope of practice. Nurses practice in many

specialties with differing levels of prescription authority. Many nurses provide care within

the ordering scope of physicians, and this traditional role has shaped the public image of

nurses as care providers. However, nurse practitioners are permitted by most jurisdictions

to practice independently in a variety of settings. Since the postwar period, nurse

education has undergone a process of diversification towards advanced and specialized

credentials, and many of the traditional regulations and provider roles are changing.

Nurses develop a plan of care, working collaboratively with physicians, therapists, the

the patient's family and other team members, that focuses on treating illness to improve

quality of life. In the United States and the United Kingdom, advanced practice nurses,

such as clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners, diagnose health problems and

prescribe medications and other therapies, depending on individual state regulations.

Nurses may help coordinate the patient care performed by other members of a

multidisciplinary health care team such as therapists, medical practitioners and dietitians.

Nurses provide care both interdependently, for example, with physicians, and

independently as nursing professionals.

History

History of nursing and Timeline of nursing history

Traditional

Nursing historians face the challenge of determining whether care provided to the sick or

injured in antiquity was nursing care.[3] In the fifth century BC, for example, the

Hippocratic Collection in places describes skilled care and observation of patients by male

"attendants," who may have been early nurses. Around 600 BC in India, it is recorded in

Sushruta Samhita, Book 3, Chapter V about the role of the nurse as "the different parts or

members of the body as mentioned before including the skin, cannot be correctly

described by one who is not well versed in anatomy. Hence, any one desirous of acquiring

a thorough knowledge of anatomy should prepare a dead body and carefully, observe, by

dissecting it, and examine its different parts."

Before the foundation of modern nursing, members of religious orders such as nuns and.

monks often provided nursing-like care. Examples exist in Christian, Islamic and Buddhist

traditions amongst others. Phoebe, mentioned in Romans 16 has been described in many

sources as "the first visiting nurse". These traditions were influential in the development of

the ethos of modern nursing. The religious roots of modern nursing remain in evidence

today in many countries. One example in the United Kingdom is the use of the historical

title "sister" to refer to a senior nurse in the past.

During the Reformation of the 16th century, Protestant reformers shut down the
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monasteries and convents, allowing a few hundred municipal hospices to remain in

operation in northern Europe. Those nuns who had been serving as nurses were given

pensions or told to get married and stay home.[12] Nursing care went to the

inexperienced as traditional caretakers, rooted in the Roman Catholic Church, were

removed from their positions. The nursing profession suffered a major setback for

approximately 200 years.

19th century

Russian Sisters of Mercy in the Crimea, 1854-1855

During the Crimean War the Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna issued the call for women to

join the Order of Exaltation of the Cross (Krestodvizhenskaya obshchina) for the year of

service in the military hospitals. The first section of twenty-eight "sisters", headed by

Aleksandra Petrovna Stakhovich, the Directress of the Order, went off to the Crimea early in

November 1854.

Florence Nightingale was an influential figure in the development of modern nursing. No

uniform had been created when Nightingale was employed during the Crimean War.

Often considered the first nurse theorist, Nightingale linked health with five environmental

factors: pure or fresh air, pure water, efficient drainage, cleanliness, and light, especially

direct sun light. Deficiencies in these five factors resulted in lack of health or illness. Both the

role of nursing and education were first defined by Nightingale.

Florence Nightingale laid the foundations of professional nursing after the Crimean War.
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Her Notes on Nursing (1859) became popular. The Nightingale model of professional

education, having set up the first school of nursing that is connected to a continuously

operating hospital and medical school, spread widely in Europe and North America after

1870. Nightingale was also a pioneer of the graphical presentation of statistical data.

Other important nurses in the development of the profession include:

Agnes Hunt from Shropshire was the first orthopedic nurse and was pivotal in the

emergence of the orthopedic hospital The Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Hospital in

Oswestry, Shropshire.

Agnes Jones, who established a nurse training regime at the Brownlow Hill infirmary,

Liverpool, in 1865

Linda Richards, who established quality nursing schools in the United States and Japan,

and was officially the first professionally trained nurse in the US, graduating in 1873 from

the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston.

Clarissa Harlowe "Clara" Barton, a pioneer American teacher, patent clerk, nurse, and

humanitarian, and the founder of the American Red Cross.

Saint Marianne Cope, a Sister of St. Francis who opened and operated some of the first

general hospitals in the United States, instituting cleanliness standards which influenced the

development of America's modern hospital system.

Catholic orders such as Little Sisters of the Poor, Sisters of Mercy, Sisters of St. Mary, St.
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Francis Health Services, Inc. and Sisters of Charity built hospitals and provided nursing

services during this period.[citation needed] In turn, the modern deaconess movement

began in Germany in 1836.NWithin a half century, there were over 5,000 deaconesses in

Europe.

Formal use of nurses in the modern military began in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Nurses saw active duty in the First Boer War, the Egyptian Campaign (1882), ] and the

Sudan Campaign (1883).

20th century

Further information: Women in nursing

A recruiting poster for Australian nurses from World War I

Hospital-based training came to the fore in the early 1900s, with an emphasis on practical

experience. The Nightingale-style school began to disappear. Hospitals and physicians

saw women in nursing as a source of free or inexpensive labor. Exploitation of nurses

was not uncommon by employers, physicians, and educational providers.

Many nurses saw active duty in World War I, but the profession was transformed during

the Second World War. British nurses of the Army Nursing Service were part of every

overseas campaign. More nurses volunteered for service in the US Army and Navy than

any other occupation. The Nazis had their own Brown Nurses, 40,000 strong. Two dozen

German Red Cross nurses were awarded the Iron Cross for heroism under fire.
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The modern era saw the development of undergraduate and post-graduate nursing

degrees. Advancement of nursing research and a desire for association and organization led

to the formation of a wide variety of professional organizations and academic journals.

Growing recognition of nursing as a distinct academic discipline was accompanied by an

awareness of the need to define the theoretical basis for practice.

In the 19th and early 20th century, nursing was considered a women's profession, just as

doctoring was a men's profession. With increasing expectations of workplace equality

during the late 20th century, nursing became an officially gender-neutral profession,

though in practice the percentage of male nurses remains well below that of female

physicians in the early 21st century.