NURS 3150 Exam 1 Study Guide | 105 Questions with 100% Correct Answers | Verified | Latest Update 2024

From what years was Florence Nightingale alive? - . Describe Florence Nightingale's background - - Victorian era during the Industrial Revolution. - Felt nursing was a calling from God. - High school education, statistics class (parents thought data would help her run a household better). - Introduced research during the Crimean war. - Believed men and people of color should not be nurses. When did Nightingale open her school of nursing? - 1860. Discuss early history of nursing - - Women assisted in childbirth. - Hebrews kept records and developed a code of hygiene. - Greeks sought out - Hippocrates oath (father of medicine). - Greeks viewed health as a balance between body and mind. How did nursing progress in the Middle Ages (rise of Christianity)? - - Became more structured. - Church set up a system to care for the sick (Nuns, who lived in worked in convents, cared. Safe places for women). - Men in crusades cared for sick and injured. - Lived in cramped quarters (disease became prevalent). - Paid for things through pennants (used money to set up churches and hospitals)