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, Educated women did not pursue nursing because it was Sairey Gamps
considered beneath them it was left to whom?
"Sairey Gamps" means... a term used to describe the poor-low class people who cared for the sickly
Sairey Gamp was a fictional drunken midwife created Charles Dickens
by?
Whose name became synonymous with low-class, Sairey Gamp
poorly qualified health care workers.
What people cared for sick family members at home Wealthier
because it was considered a disgrace to send one's
family away to a hospital.
Modern nursing began in what? mid-1800s
In what year was the first school of nursing was 1836
established in Kaiserworth, Germany
Who created the first school of nursing in Kaiserworth, Pastor Theodore Fliedner
Germany
Many women who were educated there were then Kaiserworth deaconesses
assigned to various places around the world to teach
other women to be nurses. They were referred as what?
The most famous Kaiserworth deaconesses is whom? Florence Nightingale
In what year, the Nurses Associated Alumnae of the 1897
United States was formed in Baltimore, Maryland, in an
effort to oversee training so as to protect patients from
incompetent nurses.
Soon afterward, the American Society of the National League for Nursing Education
Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses was
established this group later became what?
What is the purpose of the National League for Nursing To set standards and rules in nursing education, and it continues to fulfill that
Education? function today.
In what year, did some states began to pass laws early 1900s
requiring the licensure of nurses. Requirements for
entering nursing school also were established.