Nursing History

Nursing History
Nursing History
Chamberlain College of Nursing NR393 Nursing History
Course Project Milestone 2 Template
Prior to completing this template, carefully review Course Project Milestone 2 Guidelines, paying particular attention to how to name the document and all rubric requirements. After saving the document to your computer, type your answers directly in this template, and save again. This assignment is due by the end of Week 4 at 11:59 p.m. MT.
Your Name: _________
Assignment Criteria Answers
Note: See Milestone 2 Rubric for details required in each area.
Scheduled Date and Location of Interview
30 points
Date for interview (must be after Friday of Week 5):
Location:
Interview Recording Method
20 points
Select one: Written notes, audio, or audio/visual
Hardware and/or software used:
Milestone 3 Submission Method
20 points
Select one: Typed on Milestone 3 Template, audio, or audio/visual
Questions to Be Asked
Remember that all questions must be open ended and clearly related to this nurse.
Follow-up questions must be clearly related to the associated primary question.
Primary Questions
30 points
(Type Question #3 below.)
Follow-Up Questions for Each Primary Question
80 points
(Type questions below; see guidelines and announcements for details.)
1: What are some of your favorite memories of nursing school? a.
b. How did classmates or instructors impact your development as a nurse?
2: How have you improved the quality of nursing practice during your career? a.
b.
3: a.
b.
4: How have you contributed to the profession of nursing and to nursing history? a. Why has work in that area become your passion?
b.
5: Who is your favorite nurse from nursing history? a.
b. How has that nurse influenced your own nursing practice?
NR393 Course Project Milestone 2 Template.docx 9/10/2018 CJM 1
Nursing is a career that is responsible for providing ongoing care to the sick, injured, disabled, and dying.
In hospital and community contexts, nursing is also responsible for promoting the health of individuals, families, and communities.
Nurses are involved in health care research, management, policy debates, and patient advocacy on a daily basis.
Nurses who have completed a postbaccalaureate program are responsible for providing primary health care and speciality services to people, families, and communities on their own.
Nurses operate both alone and in partnership with other health-care professionals, such as physicians.
Nurses with limited licensure, such as licensed practical nurses (LPNs) in the United States and enrolled nurses (ENs) in Australia, are supervised by professional nurses.
Nursing assistants operate under the supervision of professional nurses in a variety of situations.
Nursing is the most populous, diversified, and well-respected of all the health-care professions.
In the United States alone, there are over 2.9 million registered nurses, with many more millions around the world.
Nursing has a larger relative representation of racial and ethnic minorities than other health-care professions, while real demographic representation remains elusive.
Men, on the other hand, are still underrepresented in several countries.
Nursing is still in high demand, and estimates indicate that demand will continue to rise.
Advances in health-care technology, increased patient demands, and health-care system reform all necessitate a larger number of highly trained workers.
This need is also fueled by demographic trends, such as significant aging populations in several nations throughout the world.
Nursing’s history
Despite the fact that nursing dates back to the mid-nineteenth century, Florence Nightingale is regarded as the founder of professional nursing.
Nightingale, the well-educated daughter of wealthy British parents, defied social expectations by deciding to pursue a career as a nurse.
Nursing strangers, whether in hospitals or at home, was not considered an acceptable profession for well-bred females at the time, who were supposed to nurse only sick family and close friends.
In a major departure from traditional views, Nightingale believed that well-educated women could dramatically enhance the care of sick people by applying scientific principles and providing informed teaching about healthy lifestyles.
Furthermore, she believed that nursing offered women, who had few other career options at the time, an ideal independent calling full of intellectual and social freedom.
During Britain’s Crimean War in 1854, Nightingale had the opportunity to put her principles to the test.
Newspaper stories claiming that religious orders nursed sick and wounded Russian soldiers fared far better than British soldiers inflamed public opinion.
In response, the British government requested that Nightingale transport a small group of nurses to Scutari (modern-day Üsküdar, Turkey).
Nightingale and her nurses reorganized the barracks hospital according to 19th-century science within days of their arrival: walls were cleaned for sanitation, windows were opened for air, nutritious food was prepared and given, and medications and treatments were promptly provided.
Within weeks, death rates dropped dramatically, and soldiers were no longer plagued by infectious diseases caused by poor sanitation.
Within months, the “Lady with the Lamp,” who made nocturnal rounds consoling the sick and wounded, had gained a grateful public’s attention.
By the end of the nineteenth century, the whole Western world agreed with Nightingale on the importance of well-educated nurses.