Egyptians - Answer-valued health, exercise, and cleanliness. Specific laws regarding health. women were hired by privileged families to care for sick/childbearing. 700 natural remedies. Contained public health and organized methods of disease control and were the first o use surgical procedures and...
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Egyptians - Answer-valued health, exercise, and cleanliness. Specific laws regarding
health. women were hired by privileged families to care for sick/childbearing. 700
natural remedies. Contained public health and organized methods of disease control
and were the first o use surgical procedures and sutures.
Palestinians - Answer-mosaic code about disease control/prevention. Hebrew priests
took role of health inspectors. Made up law about not eating animals after they had
been dead for 3 days.
Greece - Answer-believed gods and goddesses control health and illness. Hippocrates
"father of medicine" . first attribute to illness and natural causes. Today we use the
caduceus that came from Greek medicine
India - Answer-Veda (Hindu book) emphasized hygiene/prevention. Major and minor
surgeries preformed. Understood need for prenatal care. Hospitals were staffed by male
nurses.
Chinese - Answer-balance between yin and yang meant good health. Yin was the
feminine side and negative. Yang was the masculine and positive side.
Romans - Answer-enslaved physicians from conquered countries. First military hospital.
Both males and females cared for the sick. Military orders exclusively for men. Practiced
hygiene and sanitation .
nursing orders established during the Renaissance period - Answer-sisters of charity
and St. Vincent de Paul
Florence Nightingale - Answer-founder of modern/professional nursing (Crimean war)
Mary Seacole - Answer-Jamaican nurse who was refused the right to work with
Nightingale, and opened a house with her own money to care for the sick and wounded
soldiers (Crimean war)
Dorthea Dix - Answer-appointed to organize military hospitals, provide trained nurses,
and disperse supplies; she received no official status and no salary for this position (civil
war period)
Harriet Tubman - Answer-cared for wounded soldiers and conducted an "underground
railroad" to lead slaves to freedom
, Sojourner Truth - Answer-known for her abolitionist efforts, as well as her nursing
efforts, was an advocate of clean and sanitary conditions so patients could heal
Susie Taylor - Answer-although hired in the laundry, worked full time as a nurse on the
battlefront with no pay or pension; not considered an official Union Army nurse
Clara Barton - Answer-operated a war relief program; credited with founding the
American Red Cross
1896 John D. Rockefeller established the first school of nursing for African American
women, where? - Answer-Atlanta Baptist Seminary, now known as Spelman College
Lillian Wald - Answer-developed a viable practice for public health nursing. Purpose
was to provide well baby care, health education, disease prevention, and treatment of
minor illnesses.
Mary Breckinridge - Answer-Established the Frontier Nursing Service
After WWII:social issues - Answer-unemployment dropped to all time lows because
women were encouraged to return to childbearing and marriage rather than to continue
employment outside the home
After WWII: advanced in nursing - Answer-emerges as a true profession with minimum
national standards for nursing education established
Nursing care during the era of the Civil War was: - Answer-plagued by communicable
diseases made worse by unsanitary conditions
nurses became an essential part of the military advance in - Answer-WWII
medicare and Medicaid changed rules to follow drgs in - Answer-1983
Barbra Nichols - Answer--ANA's first elected African-American president (1970s)
Discuss some of the changes in healthcare and nursing that occurred in the 1990s -
Answer-Health of the nation
Healthy people 2000 initiate was written focuses in disease prevention and health
promotion
Saw more deaths from heart disease, cancer, cerebral vascular disease, copd, etc.
AIDS epidemic for infection control-wearing latex gloves, using isolation procedures
Exposure to hazardous material became a large issue
Increase in coast of Medicare and Medicaid
Sairy Gamp (1843) - Answer-was portrayed as unkempt, drunk, used sick patients as
profit by Charles Dickens in literature.
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