Mildred Montag - Founded ADN education 1952
Lillian Wald - Founded the Henry st. Settlement and public health nursing.
Hildegard Peplau - Pioneer in
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Mary Mahoney - First black trained nurse
Mary Breckinridge - Nurse midwife who founded the Frontier Nursing Service
Clara Barton - Who founded the American Red Cross
Mary Ann Bickerdyke - A civil war lay nurse who rallied the soldiers, cleaning up
the camps and soldiers.
Dorothea Dix - An avid reformer or care of the mentally ill
Florence Nightingale - Founder of modern nursing and nursing education
Adelaide Nutting - First professor of nursing in the world
Isabel Hampton Robb - Helped to form the National League Of Nursing and the
American Nurses Association.
Nursing Journals - Written for nurses; offer the latest info. Research results.
Non-Professional Magazines/Journals - Written for the public
Midlands Tech Colleges nursing program philosophy of nursing - Support the
mission of the college
Affirm the worth and dignity of the individual
Nursing is an art and a science with varying levels of practitioners
Education is a lifelong process
Nursing education includes preparation and general academics and technical skills
Contains the scope of practice for the LPN and the RN
Philosophy of nursing - Statement of beliefs about nursing
Expressions of values in nursingUsed for decision making and the practice of nursing
Individual nurses' philosophies
Collective philosophies- hospitals and schools of nursing
10 professional nursing values - Compassion/Caring
Accountability/Responsibility
Ethical
Knowledgeable
Teamwork
Patient advocate
Holistic
Competent
Openness to learning
Respectful
What are values? - Freely chosen principles, ideals, or standards
Gives meaning and direction to a person's life
Abstract representation of what is right or desirable
Values are developed as culture, society, and individuals change
Nurses need to understand their own value system. Non-judgmental approach
Beliefs - Intellectual acceptance of something as true or correct
Shown through attitudes and behaviors
It is important to know ones beliefs because the practice of nursing frequently
challenges a nurses beliefs
Most recent published set of beliefs is the Nursing Code Of Ethics
What is holistic nursing? - (Nourishes the whole person) (body, mind, and spirit)
Nursing is an open system
Nursing provided several health care services including maintaining health,
preventing disease, restoring health, and achieving a peaceful death
Involves collaborating with patients and families
South Carolina's definition of registered nursing - "Practice of registered nursing"
means the performance of health care acts in the nursing process that involve
assessment, analysis, intervention, and evaluation.
National League of Nursings definition of nursing - Not a specific def. based on 4
core valuesCaring- promoting health healing and hope
Integrity- respecting the dignity and moral wholeness of the individual
Diversity- affecting the uniqueness of and the differences among persons
Excellence- creating and implementing transformative strategies
American Nurses Association (ANA)definition of nursing - 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 and the care of individuals, families, communities,
and populations.
Virginia Hendersons definition of nursing - By 1960, this definition was
universally excepted and represented and emergence of contemporary nursing.
"The unique function of the nurses to assist the individual, sick or well, and
performance of those activities contributing to health or it's recovery (or to a
peaceful death)
Responsibility of care is shared by the patient and the nurse
Dorthea Orem's definition of nursing - Captures the "self-care" theory of nursing.
Nursing gives direct assistance to a person, as required, because of the person
specific and abilities and self-care resulting from a situation of personal health."
Believe that nurses only do for the patient what they would do for themselves
Martha Rogers definition of nursing - The first definition to mention the "nursing
process." Nursing aims to assist people in achieving their maximum health
potential. Maintenance and promotion of health, prevention of disease, nursing
diagnosis, intervention, and rehabilitation.
Defining nursing - Establishes purposes/functions
Differentiates from other occupations
Establishes parameters/boundaries
Florence Nightingale's definition - Simple
Dealt with basic needs of the patient
"Nature acting upon him"
Use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and proper first.
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