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Mooney Final
History of Nursing
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Medical
Undergraduate 2
12/09/2007

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Term
Prevention/Cure
Definition
Most ancient cultures emphasized ___ more than ___.
Term
Religious practices
Definition
Nursing was closely related to ____ ___.
Term

Egypt

Magician/Priest

Physician 

Definition

In ____(country),

Highest medicine______
Lowest_______

Term
Code of Hammurabi
Definition
Regulations for physician fees and practices were included in what?
Term
Jewish
Definition
The ____ people had quasi-universal health care with healing houses.
Term
India
Definition
_______(country) had the greatest specificity about nurses and nursing.
Term

Greeks

 

Hippocrates 

Definition
The beginning of scientific medicine is usually attributed to the _______s and in particular to _________.
Term
Hygia
Definition
Greek goddess of health
Term
Panacea
Definition
Greek goddess of health restoration
Term
Romans
Definition
______ adopted the Greek achievements and made contributions to public health.
Term
Growth of religious orders with their attention to care for the sick
Definition
In the Middle Ages, what led to major improvements in healthcare?
Term
St Bartholomew's
Definition
Hospital founded in 1123 that continues today.
Term

Bethlehem Hospital

- Bedlam - 

Definition
First institution for the mentally ill in 1330.
Term
The Reformation
Definition
This led to the suppression of monasteries in many places causing a decline in the state of health care and the virtual disappearance of men from nursing.
Term
Florence Nightingale
Definition
Founder of modern nursing.
Term
Dorthea Dix
Definition
Not a nurse -- superintendent of nurses in Civil War; improved lot of the mentally ill.
Term
Clara Barton
Definition
Civil War nurse, founder of American Red Cross
Term
Linda Richards
Definition
First trained nurse in 1873
Term
Mary Mahoney
Definition
First black nurse in 1879
Term
Isabel Hampton Robb
Definition
Dedicated life to raising standards of nursing education
Term
Sophia Palmer
Definition
First editor of AJN 1900
Term
Lillian Wald
Definition
Social reformer, graduated nursing school in 1901, started Henry Street Settlement House (visiting nurses)
Term
Lavinia Dock
Definition
Graduated from Bellevue 1885 - devoted life to getting right to vote for women
Term
Annie Goodrich
Definition
1910 appointed NY inspector of nursing schools, 1st dean of US Army nursing school
Term
Mildred Montag
Definition
Developed LPN
Term
Clara Maass
Definition
Researched cause for Yellow Fever
Term
Hippocrates
Definition
Father of Medicine
Term
Florence Nightingale
Definition
Inventor of biostatistics
Term
Queen Victoria
Definition
Prominent person at same time as Florence Nightingale
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