-provides an informed and critical understanding of our society
- Helps us understand the meaning of nursing and nursing experiences on a conceptual level
- Facilitates a sharper reflection on the current system and who the stakeholders are
-Influences current research about nursing as a discipline and profession
- teaches us about who we are, and where we are going - ANS✔✔ Importance of of
understanding history when thinking about nurses today
- helps develop professional identity
promote group cohesiveness and pride
- offers us knowledge about practices relationships
-Can serve to challenge conventional wisdom
- provides understanding of political, social and economic influences that affect the profession
today
- Contributes to the advancement of the nursing profession
- all about patient outcomes
-reflection so we can move forward
-participate in policy change and development - ANS✔✔ Important reasons to know your
nursing roots
-mid 1800s through WW1
- nurses as noble, moral, religious, virginal and self-sacrificing
- comfort the sick and dying
- looked at as a vocation or for poor people
- informal care givers - ANS✔✔ Whats the "The Angel of Mercy" Nurse
, - Turning point
- Looked at patient outcome and patient care
- Considered to be the 1st nursing research, epidemiologist
- Advocated for patients
-believed nursing to be an art and science with it own knowledge base
-innovator in care
-developed an apprenticeship training model - ANS✔✔ Florence Nightingale
- broke through cultural norms to offer care to their communities
-Championed the rights of all people
-Canada was very behind on accepting black nurses into nursing school (1948) - ANS✔✔ Harriet
Tubman, Mary Eliza Mahoney and Lillian Holland Harvey
-indigenous women healers played vital role as nurses and midwives in settler communities
- after the confederation, gov pursued a policy of assimilation of indigenous people and
eradication of their culture, including the suppression of healing knowledge and practice
- was barred from entering training schools until the 1930s - ANS✔✔ indigenous caregivers
- symbiotic relationship between professional image and socio-political-economic contexts
- stereotypes can influence professional image and credibility
- plays role in attracting and socializing new nurses to the profession
-the nursing 'umbrella' is expanding, placing mire pressure on nursing to define itself and its
outcomes - ANS✔✔ Why does the nursing image matter?
- media
-public perceptions
-history