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Hippocrates - ✔✔"Father of modern medicine."
His beliefs focused on harmony with the natural law instead of on
appeasing the gods.
He emphasized treating the whole client—mind, body, spirit, and
environment—and making diagnoses on the basis of symptoms rather than
on an isolated idea of a disease.
He was also concerned with ethical standards for physicians, expressed in
the now-famous Hippocratic Oath.
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,Florence Nightingale - ✔✔Founder of modern nursing, in 1851.
Nightingale supervised 125 nurses in several large hospitals, and
advocated a program of at least 1 year that included basic biological
science, techniques to improve nursing care, and supervised practice.
Isabel Adams Hampton Robb - ✔✔Dedicated her life to raising the
standards of nursing education in the United States, and was the first as
director of the Illinois Training School for Nurses, headed the new Johns
Hopkins Training School for Nurses. Some of her unique ideas for the time
were to develop and implement a grading policy for nursing students that
required nurses to prove their abilities in order to be awarded a diploma.
Advocate for reducing long hours for nurses.
In 1896, she became the first president of a group called the Nurses
Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada, which would later
become the American Nurses Association (ANA).
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,She later helped develop the American Journal of Nursing, the first
professional journal dedicated to the improvement of nursing, which is still
the official journal of the ANA.
Lillian Wald - ✔✔Opened the Henry Street Settlement (a storefront health
clinic in a poorer part of NYC. The nurses made home visits and focused
on sanitary conditions and children's health). She was an advocate for
wellness education, Founded the National Organization for Public health
nursing, in 1912. She was the first to place nurses in public schools.
Loretta Ford - ✔✔Credited with founding nurse practitioner practice.
Awarded the Blackwell Award (named for the first female doctor in
America).
Importance of Interpersonal Education for Nurses - ✔✔Local health needs
Fragmented health-care practices
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, Present and future health-care needs
Shortages in the health workforce
Collaborative practice
Improved health-care system
Ways a nursing license may be revoked - ✔✔Conviction for a serious crime
Demonstration of gross negligence or unethical conduct in the practice of
nursing
Willful violation of the state's nurse practice act
Failure to renew a nursing license while still continuing to practice nursing
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