4. PRIMITIVE TIMES
- Women practice nursing because of low
status in society.
- Took care of children and sick members of
the family.
- Personalistic cause of disease.
- Superstitious and believes in magic.
- Slave society “slave nurses”
5. PRIMITIVE TIMES
- Sickness is due to active intervention of:
a. human – caused by witchcraft.
b. non human – caused by ghosts.
c. superhuman beings – caused by
deities.
- Superstitious and believes in magic.
6. PRIMITIVE TIMES
- Slave society “slave nurses”
- Wet nursing, take care of babies/children
of their masters
- Women also practices midwifery.
- Masters/healers are the people who are
responsible in decision making when it
comes to health.
7. 6th CENTURY
- Founding of religious orders.
3 Attributes of Nurses
1. Self denial
2. Devotion to hard work and duty.
3. With spiritual calling.
8. 6th CENTURY
Main Guiding Principles
1. “Love thy neighbor as thy self”.
2. Parable of the Good Samaritan.
- Beneficence (doing good to others).
2 Types of Beneficence
1. Ordinary – doing good to others.
2. Ideal – entails sacrifice.
10. 6th CENTURY
- founding of religious orders.
- women practiced nursing.
- Daughters of Charity/Sisters of Charity
founded by St. Vincent de Paul and
Augustinian Sisters.
11. 6th CENTURY
CRUSADES
- Men practiced nursing.
- Knights of St. Lazarus
a. established a standard among
hospitals in Europe.
b. took care of clients with skin
problems like leprosy.
12. 6th CENTURY
- Knights of St. John of Jerusalem
a. also known as Knights Hospitalers.
b. founded hospitals.
13. 18th CENTURY
1836
- Theodore Fleidner reestablished order of
Deaconesses.
- Founded school of nursing in
Kaisserwerth, Germany where Florence
Nightingale was the most known student.
14. 18th CENTURY
1854-1856 (CRIMEAN WAR)
- Florence Nightingale was known as the
Lady with a Lamp.
- Compiled the “Notes on Nursing: What it
is and What is not” and became the first
nurse theorist.
16. 18th CENTURY
- Florence Nightingale established a nursing
school in St. Thomas Hospital in London
which adopted the Nightingale System.
- Made Florence Nightingale the mother of
modern nursing.
17. 18th CENTURY
Philosophy of Nightingale System
1. Government funds should be allotted to
nursing education.
- earned her the title of being the
first nurse political activist.
2. Training schools of nursing should be in
close affiliation.
18. 18th CENTURY
3. Professional nurses should train nurses
4. Nursing students should be provided
with residence near their training hospitals.
- written orders of doctors insisted.
- nurses should go with doctors
during rounds.
19. Late 20th CENTURY
- Specialization in medicine.
- Conceptualization of the role of clinical
nurse specialist.
- Increase clinical content of education
(1900’s).
21. Late 21st CENTURY
- Globalization of nursing.
- Period after world war II.
- Borderless nursing or transcultural
nursing.
- Professionalization of nursing.
