The High Middle Ages(1000–1475)
•Collapse of the Roman empire
•Catholic Church fills vacuum
•Cathedrals built and universities founded
The Early Middle Ages
•Medicine and health associated with
religious groups
•Emphasis shifted to personal care and
comfort
•Hospitals f...
The High Middle Ages(1000–1475)
•Collapse of the Roman empire
•Catholic Church fills vacuum
•Cathedrals built and universities founded
The Early Middle Ages
•Medicine and health associated with
religious groups
•Emphasis shifted to personal care and
comfort
•Hospitals founded at monasteries (war
left monks and nuns caring for sick)
•First nursing order of nuns—Augustinian
Sisters
Changes in the social climate of the 1700's that affected healthcare
•Industrialism replaces agricultural society*.
• Living, health, and sanitary conditions deplorable.
Early Reformers
• Londoner John Howards and prison reforms
• Londoner Elizabeth Fry and the Sisters of Charity
•German Theodor Fliedner opens Kaiserswerth Deaconess
Institution
• First real nursing school
Florence Nightingale
• Considered the founder of modern nursing
• Became an authority on public health and hospitals
• Heroine of the Crimean War
• Her practices still appropriate for today's nurses
• Transformed nursing from a profession for poor women to a noble
occupation
• Nursing based upon trial and error
Linda Richards (1841-1930)
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