History & Education of Nursing

History and Education of Nursing

Introduction

The paper aims to discuss the history and education of nursing in America. Nursing care is the health of human beings. It also receives the name of the office which, based on science that is devoted primarily to diagnosis and treatment of health problems or potential. Nurse's unique approach focuses on the study of the response of the individual or group to a health problem or potential, and, from another perspective, in addition to or substitution of the need of every human being to take care. Nurses are highly educated, skilled practitioners of the art and science of nursing who contribute to individual and community health and well being, the domestic economy, and the reproduction of community values.

Nursing as care work and individual and collective identity illustrate well the gendered, classed, and raced meanings of women's lives. The term nurse usually applies to the person who, having received special training, working as a member of a team of health care and the care of patients entrusted to their care, under the direction of a medical professional. The mission and training of the nurse have varied in time, according to scientific and technological development and demand for the company. Nursing is a profession of university degree that is dedicated to the care of the individual, family and the community at all stages of life cycle and its processes of development.

Discussion

History of Nursing

Nursing dates to the mid-1800s, although women's work as healers, herbalists, and midwives predates the professionalization of care work. Florence Nightingale, who was born into a wealthy British family, wrote about being called to nursing. Known as the “Lady with the Lamp” in recognition of her service to injured and dying soldiers during the Crimean War and elsewhere, she established the first professional nursing school in London in 1860.

Mary Seacole was a Jamaican-born woman of color who, like Florence Nightingale, traveled widely to care for populations hard hit by cholera and other epidemics and to serve for three years during the Crimean War. Unlike Nightingale, Seacole's contributions to nursing practice were largely forgotten. Some historians and feminists claim she fell into obscurity because race and class prejudice made Seacole a less fitting role model during the Victorian era. When Seacole's contributions were rediscovered, she became a symbol for minoritized nurses and the civil rights movement.

Until the mid-1950s, women learned the knowledge and skills that prepared them to be a nurse through apprenticeship. Their training typically occurred in a hospital setting under the watchful eye of a physician or senior nurse. The naturalness of these expectations was reinforced by educational institutions and religious-based hospitals that trained nurses. Schools of nursing operated by Catholic and Mormon churches, for instance, reinforced women's role in health and healing at work and at home. Nursing has been considered a “calling” for which an individual is chosen to serve God's plan in a unique or special way.

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