University:
California State University, San Marcos
Course:
NURS 260 | Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
Academic year:

2019
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458

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2
Author:

rehinhea0c

Florence Nightingale ● Major accomplishments ○ Improved and reformed laws affecting health,morals and the poor ○ Reformed hospitals and improved workhouses and infirmaries ○ Improved medicine by instituting an army medical school ○ Improved the health of british citizens in wide flung colonies ● Nursing school ○ Established a nurse register for graduates of her school ○ Graduates were in great demand all over Europe ○ Did much to reform health care and hospitals ○ Not well accepted by physicians ■ Did not see the need for so much education Nursing in the United States ● First nursing school 1839 ● Civil War 1861-1865 ○ Untrained female volunteers ○ Not appreciated by medical corp ● AMA 1869 Nurses are recalled as useful ○ Hospitals befan nursing schools ○ Students provided free labor ○ Long hours and no time off ○ No classroom training ● WW1 ○ Demand for nurses ○ Army and navy nurse corps ○ Red cross began ● Vassar Training Camp 1918 ○ High quality ○ Better trained nurses ● WWII ○ Nursing shortage ○ 1943 Cadet Nurse Corps ○ Minimum education standards ○ LPN programs began Nursing Today ● 75-85% Women ● Consumer Revolution ○ No more paternalistic health care ○ Increase in malpractice ○ Patients have rights ○ Informed decision making ○ Increased cost Levels of Nursing ● Unlicensed Assistive Personnel ○ CNA/ Techs LPN Diploma Associate degree BSN ○ Critical care nurse certification ● MSN ● APRN ○ NP ○ CNS ● Doctoral education Notable Nursing Leaders ● Lillian Wald ○ First public health nurse ○ Henry Street Settlement ■ Nursing, basic sanitation, cooking and sewing ● Isabel Adams Hampton Robb ○ ANA first president ○ Raised standards for nursing education ● Loretta Ford ○ Founder of the first nurse practitioner program ○ University of Colorado 1965 ● ● ● ●