History and Evolution of Nursing

Mrs.GREESHMA NAIR
MKSSS CON
HOW DID NURSING START?
WHERE DID IT BEGIN?
WHO FOUNDED NURSING?
WHAT IS NURSING?
______________________________?
ANCIENT
CIVILIZATION
NURSING WAS NOTED TO BE AS OLD
AS TIME.

IT BASICALLY STARTED FROM :

INSTINCT

- HUMAN NATURE

NURTURING

CARING

NURSING
EGYPTIAN RITES
HEALTH AND HEALING BELIEFS OF
ANCIENT CIVILIZATION.

SUPERSTITION AND BLACK MAGIC

INJURIES FROM WARS AND OTHER

TRAGIC EVENTS.
BIBLICAL RECORDS
JESUS HEALING THE WOUNDED AND
THE INFLICTED

GOOD SAMARITAN LAW

 CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATIONS AND ORDERS
“CRUSADES”

Knights of St. John of Jerusalem Sisters of Charity

• a.k.a Knights of Hospitallers
• Established by St. Vincent de Paul in France
• Decendants are the Knights Templars
• The first nursing orders – Monastic Order of St.
Augustine
Monastic Orders
 CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATION AND ORDERS

Order of the Deaconesses Founders of the Order

• Founded in Kaiserwerth, Germany. • Kaiserwerth Institute for Deaconesses
• Recognised the role of women in taking
care for the sick.
• Initiated the establishment of training
school for nurses.
• Founders of the training school : Pastor
Theodore Fliedner & Frederika Fliedner
(wife)

..and one of the students of this

training school is …
 A lady named…
Florence Nightingale
• An English lady from a
wealthy family during the
Victorian era
• During the Crimean War-
known to be the “Lady with
the Lamp”
• A nursing theorist, writer
and statistician.
 Prior to Florence Nightingale
Is the Dark Age for Nursing because…

Nursing is considered as Who are the nurses?

• A very low job in terms of social hierarchy.
• A job for the uneducated and poor.
• A desperate occupation.
• Women of lowest social standing
• Wayward women of low status, instead of
going to prison, they were asked to served
as nurses.
• monastic women or untrained helpers of
low repute.
• Poor unmarried woman with no family or
no chance of getting married.
 FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Changed the image of nursing

• Dubbed as the “Lady with
the Lamp”
 FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

NOTES on NURSING(1859)

“What it is
and What it
is not”
 FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Nightingale Training School at St.
School of Nursing Thomas’ Hospital
• In 1860, Nightingale laid
the foundation of
professional nursing when
the first school of nursing
was established.
 FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Environmental Theory
Maintaing the a safe and
clean environment to
Promote well-being
 Transformation of Nursing into a Profession

Nightingale Nurses
• Linda Richards- the first American
trained Nurse (1870) became a great
nursing pioneer in USA and Japan.

• Some nurses became the matrons at

several leading hospital (St. Mary’s,
Westmisnter Hospital, Royal Victoria
Hospital, Sydney Hospital)
Transformation of Nursing into a Profession

Nightingale describes Nursing as:

SCIENCE
Nursing is a body of scientific
knowledge using empirics.
ART
Nursing has its own way
proper way of doing things
and applying knowledge.
(Example the interaction between a health
consumer and the nurse)
 Milestones in Nursing
Training and Education
• Development and
Establishments of Nursing
Schools all over the world.
 Milestones in Nursing
Regulating Agency/ Body
• Existence of Regulating
Body for Nurses that sets
that the conduct of nurses
and regulates safe nursing
practice
 Milestones in Nursing
A Professional Organization
• Development of Nursing
Organizations from local to
international levels
 Milestones in Nursing
Continuing Education
• Continuing professional
education and training for
nurses for competency
(Trainings, Masters degree in
Nursing, Doctorate in Nursing)
 Milestones in Nursing
Publication
• Nursing has a voice, has free
medium of expression and
has the right to be heard in
the discussion of issues
pertaining to the healthcare
delivery system and the like
 Milestones in Nursing
Community Involvement
• Nursing has extended roles
and has various
participation in the
community service and
industry.
 Milestones in Nursing
Community Service Eg. Health Expo
 Milestones in Nursing
Development of New Nursing Knowledge
• Development of Nursing
Theory and applied it into
nursing practice.
 Milestones in Nursing
Involvement in Research
and geared research
outputs results towards
Evidenced-Based Practice.
Is Nursing A Profession?

YES
VERY
NOBLE PROFESSION
 WHY DO WE SAY SO?
WHAT MAKES NURSING A
PROFESSION?
Characteristics of a
profession

Education and Training

Regulating Body

Code of Ethics

Professional Organization

Publication and Representation

Research and Application (EBP)
Autonomy

INDEED NURSING IS A PROFESSION.

…THEREFORE EVERY NURSE IS EXPECTED TO HAVE

PROFESSIONALISM.
 HOW ABOUT THE NURSES OF TODAY?

WHAT WILL YOU BECOME THREE YEARS FROM

NOW?
OR
Pathway of Nursing Professionals
Elderly Care
Pathway of Nursing Professionals
Emergency Nursing
Pathway of Nursing Professionals
Acute Ward Nursing (Medical/ Surgical)
Pathway of Nursing Professionals
Pediatric Nurse
Pathway of Nursing Professionals
Military Nursing
Pathway of Nursing Professionals
Theater Nurse
Pathway of Nursing Professionals
Industrial Nursing (School Nurse, Company Nurse)
Pathway of Nursing Professionals
Nurse Educators
Pathway of Nursing Professionals
High Dependency Unit
Pathway of Nursing Professionals
Mental Health Nurse
 The EVOLUTION OF THE NURSING
PROFESSION
FROM TO
ITS JUST LIKE THIS..
Through the years…
Nursing has gone a long way

Because of
her legacy..
FLORENCE
NIGHTINGCALE

Founder of
Modern Nursing
LONDON, "May, 1872.

FOR us who Nurse, our Nursing is

a thing, which,
unless in it we are making
progress every year,
every month, every week, take
my word for it
we are going back.

The more experience we gain,

the more progress
we can make. The progress you
make in your
year's training with us is as
nothing to what you
must make every year after your
year's training
is over.

-Florence Nightingale
THANK YOU!

Jed Ray Montayre, RN, MSN, PhD(c)

February 2013