Nursing History Timeline

Peter Crosta M.A (2014) says that nursing is a healthcare profession focused on caring for the service user and their families giving the best possible quality of care to a service user no matter their condition until death. It will allow the service user to recover from illness, control their illness or reach an optimal status of health that they can control. Hunt et al (1994) suggests that the profession of a nurse would place great importance on nurse training and states that a nurse cannot be competent at something unless they have specific training on an area.

I already knew that Nursing is a health care profession that involves taking care of another person in which a person needs the formal education and training in the art of science of nursing. Nurses help individuals, families, and groups to achieve health and prevent diseases, and they care for the sick and injured using procedures based on

Florence Nightingale was an immense impact on nursing, who “became famous for her revolutionary work as a nurse during the Crimean War” (Kent 30). “She dedicated her life to improving conditions in hospitals, beginning in an army hospital during the Crimean War,” (3 Registered). Her actions were then used by “concerned individuals, rather than by professionally trained nurses” during the Civil War, (Registered 279). Many of Nightingale’s ideas were brought into modern times, but with the improvement of technology and licensed nurses. With the influence and patience of Florence Nightingale, nursing has evolved into an outstanding career.

Nursing is an act and science that deals with retaining, attaining and maintaining optimal client health (Sapountzi-Krepia, 2013). It is an activity that helps in the client care and alleviation of ailment. Florence Nightingale viewed nursing as the act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist in the recovering. She encouraged nurses to care for people beyond the sick bed, and campaigned for upgrades in healthcare by promoting wellness and prevention of death in the community. Florence Nightingale is considered as the first nurse theorist that raised the status of the nursing to an occupation and helps with the development of nursing theory (Alligood, 2014).

There have been many influential publications, agencies, and people in the field of nursing research. Write 1–3 sentences in each cell of the table below to describe the importance, goal, or influence of each item.

According to the American Nurses Association, “Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations” (ANA, 2010b). Nursing has come a long ways. From primitive times when caring for the sick was predominantly the rule of medicine-men who acquired the skills from their ancestors, to the era when it was viewed as a mean profession for prostitutes and nowadays when it is considered a noble profession with trained and skilled personnel.

Nursing – Nursing is a service to humanity intended to relief pain and suffering for those individuals who need healthcare. Nursing components apply principle of knowledge, skill, technology, judgement, critical thinking skills, communication to carry out the duties and responsibilities for achieving the best patient’s outcome.

Nursing is a self-motivated and multifaceted discipline, one that requires skilled, knowledgeable, and self-sufficient practitioners. The roots of nursing are firmly based on service to other individuals, groups, and communities.

In this paper we will explore many different things that effect and have contributed to the profession of nursing including but not limited to different agencies, nursing theories, and historical figures that have impacted the nursing profession.

* Defined Nursing: “The act of assisting others in the provision and management of self-care to maintain/improve human functioning at home level of effectiveness.”

Nursing history made the biggest impact on me. I like to read historical books and nursing history in the US is new to me. At Pima Medical Institute during my ADN education I prepared a presentation about a mid-wife Martha Ballard. As I wrote earlier I like to listen. Here I have a chance to read other students comments and some of them are very interesting. During the last 2 weeks we discussed about the importance of education, particularly getting a BSN degree. Learning about nursing theories and conceptual models is still continuing because this week we have to present our group work. It was amazing to work together with my team fellows, knowing they live in different states, chatting in forum and texting each other. The distance between

According to Webster’s Dictionary, Nursing is the job of taking care of people who are sick, injured, or old. Formalized nursing was established in 1872-1873 when it was set in the education system through training courses and classes in established schools. The first trained American nurse to graduate these

Nursing science was defined in 1978 by Donaldson and Crowley as “principles and laws that govern life process, well- being, and optimum functioning of human beings-sick or well…; patterning of human behavior in interaction with the environment in critical life situations… and process by which positive changes in health status are affected (Donaldson, S. K. & Crowley, M. 1978 p. 113).

Nursing science provides the basis for professional nursing practice. Nursing theories provide the critical thinking structures to direct the clinical decision- making process of professional nursing practice. The relationship between theory, research, and practice is circular in nature. As new knowledge and discoveries emerge in each of these realms, the cutting edge of the art and science of the discipline of nursing evolves.

Nursing refers to the profession within the healthcare sector that focuses on the provision of care to individuals, families and communities so that such groups may maintain or recover