Fundamentals of Nursing Chapter 1 The Vista of Nursing exam with complete solution graded A+

Nursing in 1000 AD - all women allowed to study midwifery Deaconesses - religious women who served by helping the poor and sick and administered care similar to today's public health nurses In 1700s to 1800s, - very little known about anti-sepsis, hospitals were not clean, nor were places hope, educated women did not pursue nursing because it was considered beneath them, it was left to the poor to, low class "Sairey Gamps" to care for the sick "Sairey Gamps" - fictional character, a drunken midwife, created by Charles Dickens Nursing in 1836 - first school of nursing established in Kaiserworth, Germany, nurses referred to as Kaiserworth deaconesses, by Pastor Theodore Fliedner in the mid-1800s - modern nursing began Kaiserworth deaconesses - were many women who were educated at Kaiserworth were assigned to various places around the world to teach other women to be nurses, the most famous of them all was Florence Nightingale Nursing in 1892 - the first training program established for practical nurses in New York City at the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) Ballard School - the first official school of nursing for practical nurses, through the YWCA Nursing in 1897 - Nurses association Alumnae of the U.S. was formed in Baltimore, Maryland to oversee training to protect patients from incompetent nursesAmerican Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses - was established, later became the National League for Nursing Education, their role is to set standards and rules in nursing education and continues that function today Nursing in early 1900s - Licensure required in some states Nursing in 1955 - all states require nurses to be licensed Licensed Vocational Nurse, or LVN - used in California and Texas