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IntrotonursingPPoverview20161.pptIntroduction to the Profession of Nursing
Let’s take a quick look at what & where nursing has been,
how it has traveled along the way,
and let’s speculate about where nursing
will go from here!
History of nursing
Religious orders, female relatives
Pest houses in colonial America
Who would the ‘new nurse’ be?
Florence Nightingale
https://www.biography.com/people/florence-nightingale-9423539
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‘Angel of the Battlefield’
Clara Barton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZODFBm3Sds
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New Training Schools
Minority nurses
Lillian Wald
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7x-vIia6Jo
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Expanding the reach of nurses
War and nursing
Influenza: the Spanish Flu*
On the frontlines
Nursing more respectable
Nursing students as hospital workforce*
What image?
Increased respect
Professional Organization*
Heroic image
Greater inclusion*
Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals/Korea
Nursing- starched and white
Does image limit role?
- ‘[nurses] think nothing of wearing clothing adorned with cartoon characters. What other professions that serve the public have cartoon characters on their uniform? Police officers, hospital staff, judges, fifefighters, others would not be seen with Snoopy, Sponge Bob, or animal characters covering their uniform…No wonder you have no authority’
Does the uniform matter?
Advances in education
Are you being ‘trained’ or ‘educated’?
Medical technology
State Boards and Licensure
Nurse Theorists
Nursing research
What is the profession of nursing like after 10 years?
Nurses at top
Nursing shortage
Wars
Aging population
Shortage of nursing faculty
Nursing infomatics
Health insurance changes/ ‘Obamacare’
Effects of limited access to care
Advanced Practice nursing: Filling a void in primary care
Image- who’s who?
Magnet status
- Where do nurses work besides hospitals nowadays?
Practice Settings
Long-term Care
Hospice
MD’s office/Clinic
School Nursing
Occupational (Industrial) Nursing
Community Nursing
Cruise ships, summer camp
Military Nursing
Academia
Laboratory/Research
Administration
Government
Business/Sales
Nurse Attorney
Nurse Anesthetist
Primary Care/Nurse Practitioner
Where do you see yourself?
Definition of Nursing
ANA Definition of Nursing
- ….the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, the prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations.
- From American Nurses Association website
Knowledge Base for Nursing Practice
Regulation of Nursing Practice
