405 Matrix Essay

Historical time period Nursing role in community Major health issues Partnerships used Watson’s theory
Past period 1 1800’s

American Revolution

Industrial Revolution

American Civil War
Providing nursing
care at home

Florence Nightingale Training School for Nurses
established at St. Thomas Hospital in London,
England

Community based nursing emphasis on teaching the family prevention measures for disease control. Epidemics of smallpox

Yellow fever

Cholera

Typhoid

Typhus

Tuberculosis

Malaria

Infant mortality was about 200 per 1000 live births
Sisters of Mercy established in Dublin, Ireland, where nuns visited the poor

Lutheran deaconesses; provide home visits in Kaiserwerth, Germany

Quarantine Board established in New Orleans; beginning of tuberculosis campaign in the United States

Red Cross in US

Sisters of Charity
Caring is more “healthogenic” than is curing. A science of caring is complementary to the science of curing ("Nursing Theories", 2011). Nurses in this time period were unaware of the impact they would make worldwide; nevertheless, many risked their own health by caring for the ill in their   homes.
Past period 2 1900’s

WW I

WW II

Great Depression

Civil Rights Movement

Active participation in immunization campaigns, education in improved nutrition, and provision of better hygiene and sanitation.

Coordinated home care
Programs for long term care

Public health nurses sought a
comprehensive approach to mental health that avoided
dividing persons into physical components and emotional
components
(Abramovitz, 1961).

Florence Nightingale dies

Nurses serve in the armed forces

Standards of care developed Cancer

Cerebrovascular disease

Ringworm

Pneumonia

Diarrhea

Stroke

Scabies

Smoking

Scarlett Fever
Publication of the Visiting Nurse Quarterly in 1909; initiated a professional medium of communication for clinical and organizational concerns....