I was wondering if someone could help me with the nursing profession. I need to know some information on the history of this profession. Who started it? When it started? Can someone help?
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Google it. Too much info to type here.
Florence Nightingale, a very important figure in the nursing profession’s history… that all i know.
other’s may include Dorthea Dix, Susan B. Anthony maybe, and maybe people like Elizabeth Cady Stanton or Harriet tubman…
Until very recently, the caring for the sick and elderly has been primarily a function for the family. In the distant past the exceptions to this were time of battle and epidemic.
In Rome, in the third century, there was an organization of men called the Parabolani brotherhood that provided care to the sick and dying during the great plague in Alexandria. During the crusades, groups of men known as Knighthood orders, such as the Knights Hospitalers of St.John of Jerusalem, the Teutonic Knights, and the Knights of Larzarus, comprised of brothers in arms who provided nursing care to their sick and injured comrades. These orders were responsible for building, organizing and managing great hospitals, setting a standard for the administration of hospitals (predominantly in the battlefield) in Europe at the time. In addition to the male religious and military orders, there were female religious orders.
Another male group, the Alexian Brotherhood, was organized in 1431. Knighthood orders of the Middle Ages combined religion, chivalry, militarism, and charity. Their original purpose was to carry the wounded from the battlefield and to provide care.
In times of war, there were often not extra healthy men available to help care for the military wounded. In addition to women of religious orders helping, resulting in the British calling nurses sisters to this day, women of lower classes were employed and women of upper classes volunteered as health care workers.
The term nurse was taken from the family caretakers, who also in the past had been “wet nurses” and thus were called nurse, they would take care of the sick children, and often remain with people throughout their lives.
Seventy years before the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, Fray (Faiar) Juan de Mena was shipwrecked off the south Texas Coast. He is the first identified nurse in what was to become the United States.
Florence Nightingale is credited with developing the first nursing theory, which was the beginning of nursing as a semi- or emerging profession. Though she never actually wrote a theory, her personal notes were later felt to be the basis for a theory.
During the US Civil War, both sides had both men and women working as nurses, but both used men as nurses assigned to the units.
In the late 1800s in the US, after the Civil War, and with the change to industrialization, men went to work in factories, leaving almost all “nursing” positions open for the women who were just beginning to assert themselves. The Superintendants of the Female Schools of Nursing and their alumni, started meeting and formed the Nurses Associated Alumnae, which changed its named to the American Nurses Association. One of the early accomplishments of the female nursing organizations was to exclude men from nursing in the military. In 1901 the United States Army Nurse Corp was formed and only women could serve as nurses. At this point in history military nursing which had been mostly males changed to being “exclusively female.”
It would be a long time before males were again allowed to be nurses in the military. It was not till after the Korean War that men were permitted back into nursing.
The result of this was a group started primarily by men dropped to approximately 98% female by the 1960s. In the year 1808, Lazaro Orranti and Martin Ortega were two men that were employed as nurses at a hospital in San Antonio. The hospital employed only men as nurse. A Century later a sign above the door to the San Antonio hospital nurse quarters said “Entrance to No Mans Land.”
Nursing became for many years a “blue collar” occupation for women. It was taught essentially in an apprenticeship model at hospitals, and the nurses and students would live, often at the hospital in nursing dorms. This kept them available to the hospital when needed. Nurses would be expected to clean the hospital, in addition to caring for the sick. There also developed a significant evnironment of subservience to the physicians.
As nurses began to get more education, and nursing programs moved from hospital based programs to college and university based programs, the nursing theorist began developing new theories and models for how nursing should be performed.
Once males were again permitted into military nursing, the numbers within the civilian population also started to increase. The chances of having an all male team of nurses is more than five times as likely to occur in the Military than in the civilian healthcare world. One of the little known facts of military nursing is the high percentage of men in all three services. In the Army 35.5% of its 3,381 nurses are men; in the Air Force, 30% of 3,790 nurses are men; and in the Navy, 36% of the 3,125 nurses are men. One must remember that in the nursing profession that only 6% is male. In the Army, 67% of CRNAs are men, 40% of the OR nurses are men, 34% of ED nurses are men, 29% of critical care nurses are men and 39% of medical/surgical nurses are men.
Currently, there has been a resurgence in nursing as both a profession with new theorists, and a mix of female and male. A recent shift in the economy has made nursing a draw, with a decent income potential. A recent survey showed over 25% of many BSN programs were male.
Nursing is currently considered to be an emerging profession. It has transformed from a blue collar occupation in the early 1960s to a semi profession in the 1970s, and is now an emerging profession. This is rapid development.
The development of advancing educational preparation, is part of the development of nursing as a profession. But there is also the emergence of women as equals in society, which has made a significant change. The overwheling air of Dr. Nurse subservience is diminished. Though many people in the lay public are ignorant and still feel the role of the nurse is to “help the doctor, and do what the doctor orders’”. Most health care professionals now see nurses as a separate part of the team. The work with the physicians, and perform nursing functions. Physicians write medical prescriptions. Nurses write nursing care plans, part of which includes carrying out some of the physicians prescriptions. Some of the other prescriptions are carried out by other parts of the health care team.
As this concept continues to develop, nursing will continue to emerge as a profession.
Wow I would be typing forever. Nursing goes way back. You will have to do the work. Sometimes life isn’t as easy as sitting back with yoru feet kicked up while other people scramble around doing all the work for you. Go to the library and get a nursing textbook. The first chapter always talks about the history of nursing because its the foundation of what nursing is today. Or google it.