The Role Of Nursing As A Profession

Changes in the late 1800's resulted in universities admitting women, thus allowing them to explore many more educational opportunities. These factors together provided the impetus for establishment of hospitals and schools to formally train nurses, with many schools opening for the first time in the 1870s. At the same time, though the need for nurses had been established and the importance of their role within the realm of medical care recognized, there was a great deal of opposition to the proposal that nurses should be formally educated. This attitude was epitomized by a well-known article of the time published in 1908, 'The over-trained nurse' in which the author asserted that nursing was not a “profession” but merely an “honorable calling”. Consistent with this notion, public perception viewed nursing as a job that women were generally suited to perform rather than one which required special skill and was even equated with a religious “calling”. This view, influenced by early nursing's relationship with religious orders remained far into the 20th century.(Lasseter, 1999).

One aspect of nursing that has changed since the early 1800’s is nursing education. There was no question about the credibility of the women providing care to soldiers after the war. For many years untrained nurses and consequently nursing students cared the sick without any supervision. In 1873, the need for educated nurses was sought but was opposed by untrained physicians who thought trained nurses would pose a threat to their jobs (Gary & Hott, 1988). “Nurses have evolved

The objective of this paper is to generally discuss nursing as perceived by some pioneers and specifically, it seeks to take the view that nursing is critical to effective healthcare delivery, and nursing is not just any profession.

Nursing may be one of the oldest known professions in human history. It is a well-respected profession that revolves itself around the care and comfort of patients who are in need of service. Since its establishment and the beginning of medicine, it has been an important component of patient care and recovery. There are many different types of nurses and nursing fields but they all share a common goal—the betterment of their patients.

Florence Nightingale is considered the founder of modern nursing. She was born to a wealthy family, and at a young age she felt called by God to help the poor and sick. While most people know that Nightingale was influential in the field of nursing, they might not know how much she truly impacted it. Nightingale essentially established the profession. Before she came along, nurses considered their jobs to be unimportant and of low-status, as they were untrained and were not taught properly about nursing, but learned through experience. Nightingale’s efforts turned nursing into a respectable profession raising the standards by incorporating education and responsibilities into the job. Nurses were no longer looked down upon, but became respected

With this paper the focus was on the authors focus on important nursing events from a historical perspective. In the early beginnings of nursing, religion played an important role since religious servants often provided healthcare services to the local communities. Nightingale obtained her education in Germany with Deaconess in Kaiserswerth (Gustafsson & Engström, 2011). The Deaconess movement founded several nursing schools and hospitals in the US at the same time as the Nightingale movement was established Roux & Halstead, 2009.

During the time of Elizabeth Frye, Pastor Fleidner and Florence Nightingale is when a system of nursing was established. Medical professions found it difficult to train women on the basic skills of nursing, however it was only due to hard work that many obstacles were overcome as they recognized order and cleanliness in the hospitals and they discovered that due to the cleanliness, deaths declined and the amount of people recovering increased and nurses were regarded more like assistants to doctors rather than servants.

It was interesting to know that even though nursing was a very old and necessary occupation, it was not considered as a proper profession until the mid 19th century. It is because from medieval times, the main source of nurses was the nuns but they were never trained professionally. At the time Edith pursuing her career, the nursing work was very hard. The hours were as long as from

In 1872-1873, the nursing programs where established. A lady named (“Linda Richards”) graduates from the new England hospital for woman and children training school for nurses and officially became the Americas first trained nurse. While researching, I found that in the sixteenth century, nursing started. The reason is because there was need of nursing care palliative needs of persons and families. Religious people were the care providers. I am writing this paper so I can show my goals to others and to never give up in life. It all just consist of hard work and passion. Linda Richards has inspired me to become a nurse. (http://www.nursing-theory.org).

The nursing profession is said to be during the Roman Empire around 300 A.D. That is when the empire wanted to find a hospital. Many nurses during that time assisted in in-patient medical care within the newly created hospitals, alongside doctors. During the dawn of the 10th and 11th century is when nursing began to expand. Florence Nightingale helped to change the nature of the profession forever. In the 1900’s nursing became more important. There were many nurses need on the front line there were wars being waged so nurses were sent to help the soldiers whom were sick. Florence Nightingale is one of the most popular nurses in history, it is not to be believed that she was the only notable figure in the field of nursing. Nursing in the U.S.

Between 1500 and 1860, it was considered the dark period of nursing. Nurses, at this time, was a role of servitude as menial, low-status work. Most women who filled these roles were illiterate, rough, inconsiderate, and often immoral and alcoholics (Master, 2014). It wasn’t until a woman named Florence Nightingale to come in a change the entire nursing world. Nightingale was born to a wealthy family and was not supported by her family when she pursued nursing. In 1852, Nightingale took her future into her own hands and moved to Kaiserwerth for her studies (Masters, 2014). From here, Nightingale was offered the position of female nursing establishment of the English General Hospitals in Turkey. When Nightingale sailed over seas to camps set up for wounded solider, she brought medical equipment, set up kitchens, recreation rooms, and reading rooms (Masters, 2014). More importantly, she provided humane health care. Years later, Nightingale used St. Thomas as her beginning of professional nursing school (Masters, 2014). Nightingale had high standards on who is accepted and who becomes a nurse. Students who were picked had to be of good moral character, sober, and honest with no possible ties to disgraceful associations of past nurses

Nursing was rumored to start 300 A.D. It all started in the Roman Empire were they desire to place hospitals with in every town under there rule. The romans created 2 fully-developed hospital that held both female and male nurses. At these time nurses were called hypourgoi and helped to push this occupation to a global scale. In the middle ages there were multiple advances and modernization that were achieved in the nursing industry. During this time the industry was based on religion, with most of the staff consisting on nuns and monks. Near the 500`s and early 600`s in Spain many nurses came from the catholic church. They were clearly told to care for all of the sick no matter the nation or origin or religion they

Throughout this year, I have had the chance to expand my knowledge of the nursing profession, as well as develop my own philosophy. In this paper, I will be discussing my personal journey through the year, as well as the thoughts and ideas that I have fostered to be my own philosophy. Each health profession is defined by their scope of practice, which lays out what the professional may accomplish in their practice. The Nursing Act (1991) defines nursing as “the promotion of health and the assessment of, the provision of, care for, and the treatment of, health conditions by supportive, preventive, therapeutic, palliative and rehabilitative means in order to attain or maintain optimal function.” I will be exploring this definition as well

The study of the history and evolution of nursing is necessary to understand the current situation in which the profession is about building your body of knowledge. In our history are the causes of most current situations and only seeking the reasons for those losses can be modified and improved response to social needs. If last is not known, we do not know where you come from, there are difficulties in identifying where you are and you can hardly choose where they want to go. We could say without fear of error, it is necessary to study the past, ponder this for, well, building the future.

The evolution of nursing as a profession had showed through time that it is both an art and science. Before the 19th century, the military and religious orders are the ones who perform the duties of how nurses work today. As time went by, different events throughout history such as wars and epidemics had shaped nursing to its present organization. Nowadays, nursing is pushing further towards the future in improving itself as a profession for better care and service to the community. The objective of this paper is to discuss the historical development of