1. Professionalism: Behaviours, skills, and attributes required or expected of mem- b b b b b b b b b
bers of a profession.
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- Conduct, aims or qualities that characterize or make up a profession or profession-al.
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-Requires specialized knowledge, accountability, autonomy, inquiry, collegiality, col-
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laboration, innovation & ethics and values
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2. How do nurses display professionalism?: Provide quality care to patients thru:
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- Commitment to profession led regulation b b b b
- Professional ethics b
- Personal health & fitness to practice
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- Legal & ethical dimensions to nursing
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3. What year did nursing start in Canada?: 1639 - Hotel Dieu Quebec
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4. Florence Nightingale: - b b
founder of modern nursing and a reformer of hospitalsanitation methods
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5. What did Florence Nightingale do?: - Insisted on better hygiene in field hospi-
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tals and founded the first school of nursing
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- Crimean war: reduced mortality from 42-2.2%.Hand-
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washing/nature working on patient's body was her mainstay. First health statistician (c
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ollected & analyzed healthdata).
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- improved standards of nursing care in the mid-nineteenth century
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- known for reducing mortality during the Crimean war through improved sanitationm
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easures
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,- triggered a shift in public attitudes towards the acceptability of women doing nursingout
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side of the home
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6. Florence Nightingale and Crimean War: -
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She went to the war and helped turnthe mortality rate around.
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1854, she and 38 nurses entered the battlefield near Scutari, Turkey and cared forthe
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sick and injured. They had few supplies and little outside help. She insisted on establi
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shing sanitary conditions and providing quality nursing care.This immediatelyreduced
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the mortality rate. Her dedicated service both during the day and night whenshe and her
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nurses made rounds carrying oil lamps created a public image if the lady with the lam
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p.
7. Nightingale Fund: - b b
established by the English government to promote nurse'straining in England
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- used to establish the first Nightingale school of Nursing, at St Thomas' Hospital inLo
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ndon
8. Nightingale System of Education (Nightingale Model): -
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1860: Nightingalecreated a financially independent school of nursing associated
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with St. Thomas'Hospital in London, England.
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,- Became standard of nursing education in England and worldwide for next century.
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-This was a hospital-
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based model overseen by a trained superintendent, trained staffmembers acting as ins
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tructors, and a cadre of nursing students who provided the bulk of the care
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9. What was the results of Nightingale's success in the public attitudes?: -
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Thistriggered a remarkable shift in public attitudes toward the acceptability of women
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during nursing work outside the home. Nursing became an instrument of women's e
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mancipation against the prevailing middle- b b b b
class restrictions on women working outside the home.
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10. What advocate role did Nightingale take on?: - the health of people
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- health care reform b b
- education preparation for nursing b b b
- She became an advocate for the health of people, healthcare reform, and educa-
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tional preparation for nursing through voluminous writings and lobbying of membersof
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parliament to act on these views. These views were from health data that she collecte
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d and analyzed.
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She responded viscerally to situations that frustrated and angered her including the l
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ack of active role for women in Victorian society and the lack of social action byreligiou
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s men and women in general.
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11. Nightingale Model of Nursing Education: - Hospital based. b b b b b b b
- Overseen by trained superintendent. b b b
- Trained staff members who also acted as instructors.
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, - Many student nurses who performed bulk of nursing care.
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- Nightingale model missing from new nursing schools because they had no financ-
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- Nursing students had to provide care for hospitals in return for education & livingex
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penses
- Result: Hospitals able to provide nursing care for minimal cost
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12. Sister of Charity of Montreal: -1738
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-Grey Nuns b
- Formed by Marguerite D'Youville
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-Basically the birth of home nursing
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-Pledged their lives to helping the poor and the sick (home visits)
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Establish hospitals across Canada, making separate wings and establish a healthsy
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stem.
- cared for both the poor and the wealthy
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