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    The nursing profession has its origins in providing infant care but later referred to those caring for the sick in the 16th century. While patient care has existed throughout history, the earliest documented mention of nursing as a profession was around 300 AD in the Roman Empire. Significant changes in the mid-11th century led to the growth of nursing homes incorporated into churches and religious institutions. More recently, the profession was advanced by Florence Nightingale in the mid-19th century, who established nursing education programs and principles that have guided nursing's progress. Today, nurses are the most relied upon and numerous healthcare professionals in the US.

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    The nursing profession has its origins in providing infant care but later referred to those caring for the sick in the 16th century. While patient care has existed throughout history, the earliest documented mention of nursing as a profession was around 300 AD in the Roman Empire. Significant changes in the mid-11th century led to the growth of nursing homes incorporated into churches and religious institutions. More recently, the profession was advanced by Florence Nightingale in the mid-19th century, who established nursing education programs and principles that have guided nursing's progress. Today, nurses are the most relied upon and numerous healthcare professionals in the US.

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    The nursing profession has its origins in providing infant care but later referred to those caring for the sick in the 16th century. While patient care has existed throughout history, the earliest documented mention of nursing as a profession was around 300 AD in the Roman Empire. Significant changes in the mid-11th century led to the growth of nursing homes incorporated into churches and religious institutions. More recently, the profession was advanced by Florence Nightingale in the mid-19th century, who established nursing education programs and principles that have guided nursing's progress. Today, nurses are the most relied upon and numerous healthcare professionals in the US.

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    HISTORY OF THE NURSING PROFESSION.

    The word nurse derives its origin from the term nature, Latin, and translates to 'suckle' in

    English. This was mainly because, in the early days, it referred to a nurse who provided infant care but

    later came to mean a person who was interested in the sick at the end of the 16th century (Whelan,

    2011).

    There has always been a patient care profession throughout history, although approximately 300 A.D. is

    dated when the earliest scripted documents mentioning nursing as a profession were initially recorded.

    The Roman Empire made efforts to create a hospital in every town under its jurisdiction, which would

    mean that doctors would be very much in need of the nurses to provide medical assistance (Smith,

    2019).

    Due to significant changes in European legislation in the mid-11th century, the nursing trade

    grew exponentially. Nursing homes came to be incorporated into churches and other religious

    institutions, and nurses offered a wide array of health care services, even that surpassed traditional

    medical care, as required. This all-encompassing model gained popularity and is still used today to cover

    the wide variety of responsibilities that a nurse is accountable for.

    The more recent history of professional nursing is said to have commenced with Florence

    Nightingale in the mid-nineteenth century. Nightingale, the elite daughter of a noble class British family,

    defied societal opinions by following a nursing career path (Smith, 2019).

    Nursing strangers, whether in hospitals or at home, were hardly considered an appropriate profession

    for noble class women at the time, who were expected to nurse only sick family and close relatives. In a

    significant shift from traditional views, Nightingale believed that elite women could dramatically
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    upgrade the care of the sick by incorporating scientific methodologies and offering informed teaching

    regarding healthy living.

    She considered that nursing presented women with more opportunities to be independent, who

    otherwise had few other options at the time. Nightingale also set a benchmark when she led nurses to

    Crimea to tend to wounded soldiers on October 1854 where she greatly captivated the public's

    Ierception about nursing (Whelan, 2011). Nightingale returned to England and started programs aimed

    at teaching and training the nursing profession programs in hospitals.

    Those particular educational facilities were built around a series of principles created by

    Nightingale regarding how nurses ought to be educated, colloqually known as the "Nightingale

    Principles," which have led to considerable progress in the nursing sector over time. Nurses now play a

    crucial role as some of the most relied upon healthcare professionals in the modern healthcare system,

    and they play an essential part in the medical care and treatment of the sick. Nurses have now

    surpassed physicians as the most numerous members of the healthcare profession in the United States;

    the country currently has over 3.1 million nurses who serve in various capacities and are at the forefront

    of health care provision.


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    References:

    Whelan, J. C. (2011). American nursing: An introduction to the past.  •  History, Health, and

    nursing Care •  Penn Nursing. Retrieved September 15, 2021, from

    https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/nhhc/american-nursing-an-introduction-to-the-past/.

    Smith, Y. (2019, February 27). History of nursing. News. Retrieved September 15, 2021, from

    https://www.news-medical.net/health/History-of-Nursing.aspx.

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