COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF NURSING
Foundation of modern
Nursing
By: Yohannes Tesfay (BSc,MSc)
Oct. 2016
,EXPECTED OUTCOMES
Discuss the historical development of nursing
Explain the professional growth within nursing
Identify the critical attribution of professionalism in
nursing
Discuss the difference between occupation and
profession
, INTRODUCTION
Florence Nightingale, 1858 , the goal of nursing is
“to put the patient in the best condition for nature to
act upon him,”
Nursing is an Art and a Science
ANA defined nursing as the diagnosis and treatment
of human responses to health and illness.