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%