NSG 252 - History

- Industrial Rev: new technologies

-Sisters of Charity (catholic)

-Florence Nightingale 1820-1910 (ENG) - first nurse researcher

- Crimean War

- Sanitation and disease

- Epidemiologist

- Education of other nurses

-Lillian Wald: Henry St. Settlement

- Revolutionary War:

-Bellevue Hospital in NY 1658

-People went to hospitals to die, last resort

- Civil War:

-Amputations

-More volunteers

-American Medical Association (ACA) - wanted well trained nurses

-Red Cross - Clara Barton

-Mary Mahoney - 1st AF Amer, orphanages

- Demand for nurses rose

- WW1 & WW2:

-Nurse shortage; demand for nurses

-Army and Navy nurses

-Annie Goodrich - recruited nurses, Vassar Training Camp 1918

-More nursing diversity

-More formal education

-More tech. Improvements/hospital care

-Nursing became a profession, people paid WW2

- Licensed practical nurses

- 20 & 21st Century:

- higher acuity patients - more conditions that take longer to treat, sicker

- More technology

- Need for nurse self-care

NSG History - Rhonda Cooper NSG 252

Fdtns Of Professional Nursing (NSG 252)