Florence Nightingale Research Paper
Nursing History: Reformation
Arlyn Joy De Vera
Suzzete Joanna Quilang
Danica Blanca Sta Maria
University of Saint Louis
Abstract
Nursing encountered setback during the Reformation. The dispersion of religious orders, which had been the primary source of health care resulted in a serious deterioration in hospital conditions and nursing care. Attempts to improve nursing education and the image of nurses were abandoned. The role of women changed automatically during this time. Women were viewed as subordinate to men and were expected to remain at home caring for children; this decreased the number of qualified women practicing nursing.
The term ‘Reformation’ is generally used to describe this period of transformation. The Reformation …show more content…
In this, she rebelled against the expected role for awoman of her status, which was to become a wife and mother. In those days, nursing had a poor reputation, being performed mostly by poorer women, "hangerson" who followed the armies. In fact,nurses were equally likely to function as …show more content…
In December 1844, in response to a pauper 's death in a workhouse infirmary in London that became a public scandal, she became the leading advocate for improved medical care in the infirmaries and immediately engaged the support of Charles Villiers, then president of the Poor Law Board. This led to her active role in the reform of the Poor Laws, extending far beyond the provision of medical care. She was later instrumental in mentoring and then sending Agnes Elizabeth Jones and other Nightingale Probationers to Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary.
In 1850, she visited the Lutheran religious community at KaiserswerthamRhein where she observed Pastor Theodor Fliedner and the deaconesses working for the sick and the deprived. She regarded the experience as a turning point in her life, and issued her findings anonymously in 1851; The Institutionof Kaiserswerth on the Rhine, for the Practical Training ofDeaconesses, etc. was her first published work.
Florence Nightingale 's most famous contribution came during the Crimean War, which became her central focus when reports began to filter back to Britain about the horrific conditions for the wounded. On 21 October 1854, she and a staff of 38 women volunteer nurses, trained by Nightingale to the Black Sea from Balaklava in the Crimea, where the main British camp was
Arlyn Joy De Vera
Suzzete Joanna Quilang
Danica Blanca Sta Maria
University of Saint Louis
Abstract
Nursing encountered setback during the Reformation. The dispersion of religious orders, which had been the primary source of health care resulted in a serious deterioration in hospital conditions and nursing care. Attempts to improve nursing education and the image of nurses were abandoned. The role of women changed automatically during this time. Women were viewed as subordinate to men and were expected to remain at home caring for children; this decreased the number of qualified women practicing nursing.
The term ‘Reformation’ is generally used to describe this period of transformation. The Reformation …show more content…
In this, she rebelled against the expected role for awoman of her status, which was to become a wife and mother. In those days, nursing had a poor reputation, being performed mostly by poorer women, "hangerson" who followed the armies. In fact,nurses were equally likely to function as …show more content…
In December 1844, in response to a pauper 's death in a workhouse infirmary in London that became a public scandal, she became the leading advocate for improved medical care in the infirmaries and immediately engaged the support of Charles Villiers, then president of the Poor Law Board. This led to her active role in the reform of the Poor Laws, extending far beyond the provision of medical care. She was later instrumental in mentoring and then sending Agnes Elizabeth Jones and other Nightingale Probationers to Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary.
In 1850, she visited the Lutheran religious community at KaiserswerthamRhein where she observed Pastor Theodor Fliedner and the deaconesses working for the sick and the deprived. She regarded the experience as a turning point in her life, and issued her findings anonymously in 1851; The Institutionof Kaiserswerth on the Rhine, for the Practical Training ofDeaconesses, etc. was her first published work.
Florence Nightingale 's most famous contribution came during the Crimean War, which became her central focus when reports began to filter back to Britain about the horrific conditions for the wounded. On 21 October 1854, she and a staff of 38 women volunteer nurses, trained by Nightingale to the Black Sea from Balaklava in the Crimea, where the main British camp was