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What Are the Attributes of Being a "Good" Nurse?
-caring (show you genuinely care)
-communication skills (speak and listen well)
-emotional stability
-empathy
-problem-solving skills
-attention to detail
4 Pillars of Molloy
-studies
-community (participate)
-spirituality (help pt connect w higher being)
-service
Molloy's Humanistic Framework for Nursing
-we believe that valuing the individual in the context of humanity, environment, and
health gives meaning to humanistic nursing practice
Humanistic Framework of Nursing
-valuing
-humanity
-health
-environment
valuing
-holding in high esteem the inherent worth and dignity of all individuals
humanity
-unique human being, functioning as an integrated whole, reflecting bio-psycho-socio-
cultural dimensions
environment
-sum total of all internal/external dimensions that influence human beings
health
- a dynamic state of bio-psycho-socio-cultural well being
nursing
-a science and an art which focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of human
responses
Early Civilization of Nursing
-Egyptian physicians are believed to have specialized in certain diseases
-midwives assisted with childbirth = first recorded nurses
Ancient Greece and Nursing
-Apollo = god of healing
-400 BC = Hippocrates believed disease had natural, not magical causes
diagnosis
-identifying disease scientifically
prognosis
-predicting possible outcomes
, cure
-restoration of health
Roman Empire and Nursing
-influenced by Egyptians and Greeks
-known for advances in public health
Ancient India and Nursing
-male nurses needed 4 qualifications:
1. knowledge of drugs for administration
2. cleverness
3. devotedness to pt
4. purity of mind and body
Christianity and Nursing
-nursing had a more formal/defined role
-led by belief that love and caring for others is most important
-women: visit sick pts
-men: nursing care and bury dead
-nursing became respected vocation
Middle Ages and Nursing
-more hospitals
-nurses delivered custodial care and depended on physicians for direction
-nurse midwifery flourished
Crusades and Nursing
-hospitals developed on battlefield
-Knight Hospitaliers = bright red cross
-nursing became a female-dominated proffession encouraged by Catholic Church
15th-19th Century and Nursing
-extensive population growth in cities, lack of hygiene and sanitation, increase in
poverty = serious health problem
-closure of monasteries and convents = shortage of people to care for sick
-women who committed crimes were able to become nurses instead of serving
sentences
Renaissance and Nursing
-dark ages of nursing
-average family dreaded hospitals
-limited number of nurses
-limited women's freedom
-doctors did most of nurses jobs
-nurses did majority of cleaning, laundry, and scrubbing
-hospitals were source of epidemics
Nursing Caps
-keep hair neat
-caps and aprons = respectability, cleanliness, servitude
Nursing Uniforms
-symbolic of servant
-sign of respectability
Nursing Pins