Today there is several levels of education of nursing. Nursing degrees include associate and baccalaureate degrees where one can advance to nursing doctoral degrees. Treatments have changed over time along side of the new equipment made available due to the latest technology. Some of the equipment and tools used in the past for medical treatment was quite scary looking and unsanitary. This includes knifes, saws, and augers.
My Contribution to the History of Nursing Throughout the history of nursing, there have been many remarkable individuals who have made great contributions to this field and profession. Some made vast differences in improving the work of nursing, while others made huge differences in the everyday lives of their patients, with their comforting and nurturing ways. So as I sit here and try to imagine my future ahead of me as a nurse, I can’t say for certain that I’m going to drastically change the nursing profession with some big contribution or development. I can say however, that I am going to put my heart and soul into being the kind of nurse who will be there for my patients, making contributions to better their lives every day. I made the decision to pursue the field of nursing because it embraces so many aspects of a career that I have been looking to be a part of.
Florence Nightingale: Description of Nursing Concepts and Legacy Florence Nightingale: Description of Nursing Concepts and Legacy It is not possible to receive any formal education in the practice of nursing without either learning about or being influenced by the concepts and theories established by Florence Nightingale. Nightingale was “a nurse, statistician, sanitarian, social reformer, and scholar”, and her concepts and theories greatly influenced nursing in its early development as an accredited medical profession (Burkhardt & Nathaniel, 2008, p. 18). Her theoretical concepts and conceptual model are still referenced in nursing practice throughout the world, and Nightingale’s legacy still thrives to this day. The Legend Herself Florence Nightingale was born in the year 1820 in Florence, Italy. She grew up in a wealthy family in an era when young women were to grow up to be proper homemakers, respectable society members, and civilized, obedient wives to their husbands.
Having knowledge of the foundations and history of nursing provide a context in which to understand current practice, and how it has evolved and developed as a profession throughout the centuries. By understanding the history and foundation of nursing, we the present day nurses has no choice but to appreciate the nurses of the past centuries for their effortless contributions that got us to where we are today. We have many theories such as Florence Nightingale and host of others to be appreciated for paving the way for us. One of the trends in the nursing practice demonstrated by the interactive timeline is nursing education. In the early stage of nursing, most of the people engaged in this profession were uneducated and unrecognized people in the society.
Introduction In the American civil war, thousands of women were involved as volunteer nurses in different military hospitals and the battle field. Although social taboos prohibited women from working outside their homes, women sought direct and convention involvement in the civil war. They focused on participating in the national struggle and pursuing career opportunities in the military rather than the traditionally confined domestic support roles. Women nurses experienced the detrimental and depressing constants of the civil war, such disease, as mutilated bodies, amputated limbs as well as death. In addition, they offered invaluable aid to the wounded and sick soldiers as well as medical authorities.
Once I started researching a career in nursing I realized that there were a lot more types of nurses then I had originally imagined. I have not decided on which field of nursing I would like to specialize in yet but I just imagine myself as a general nurse, working in a hospital setting. A Registered Nurse (RN) is not a doctor assistant; a RN gets to treat wounds, give IV’s and basically get to treat their own patients. Right now my main priority is to stay focused on taking all necessary steps to pursuing Nursing as a career.Gwendolyn Mink describes most Registered Nurses as working directly with the patients and their families. They are the families’ contact with the medical world, in the hospital and at the patients’ home.
Over the years, the nurse anesthesia specialty evolved to meet the demands of surgeons in quest of a solution to the high morbidity and mortality caused by anesthesia. As pioneers in anesthesia, nurse anesthetists actively participated in the fine-tuning of anesthesia delivery techniques and equipment improvement. The AANA (2009) recognizes Sister Mary Bernard as the first nurse who chose anesthesia as a specialty. She was a Catholic nun who entered St. Vincent's Hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania, to assume the duties of anesthetist in 1877 (AANA). At the end of the nineteenth century, the art of anesthesia improved greatly with the contribution of Alice Magaw.
They include the work of the suffragettes’ who caused chaos and grabbed the spotlight away from the suffragists’ after a group of women decided it was time to make a militant stand. Also woman’s work war work was a massive contribution to them gaining the vote, it showed that woman could work just as well as the men could and respect was gained. Women worked on the front line as bearers for the injured soldiers, this showed tremendous bravery and strength they also worked in the medical areas helping men recover or heal from their injuries. Finally the changing attitudes of the government and society helped women with their stand, the women’s persistence was important, they showed heart and character in continuing to maintain their support, time and effort to gain
Evidence based practice emerged in the early 1990s. It has developed over the last 10 years and has a huge impact on health professionals all over the world, in the form of the Cochrane Collaboration. Not only is it just medicine based but it’s also supported in different professional activities such as social work, probation, education and human resource management (Trinder & Reynolds, 2000). There are two main purposes of nursing research, the first one is that it improves the nurse’s clinical judgement and decision making and the second is that it helps to expand an exclusive body of nursing knowledge for the development of the profession (Miller & Babcock, 1996). Review of Evidence The article which has been selected to review is titled “Are sedatives and hypnotics associated with increased suicide risk of suicide in the elderly?” The authors of this article are Anders Carlsten and Margda Waern.
Introduction Nursing is a profession that was known even before our year count started. In history, nursing has been described as caring for those in need of support due to poor health. In the past nursing was not the task of professionals but of those surrounding the ill (Verberk and Kuiper, 2006). Around 1859 a description of nursing as a profession was created from the writings of Florence Nightingale. Due to Nightingale’s efforts to develop nursing into a profession and to provide those practicing with proper education, nursing was professionalised.