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Published: October 3, 2006
Nursing is one of history's oldest professional callings. The history of nursing goes back further than Florence Nightingale and the impact of the Red Cross. In fact, the Catholic Church officially created the nursing profession as a caretaking duty for women.
Caring for the sick rapidly became women's work and the spirit of community service was intensified by every condition under which Christians lived at the time. In A Short History of Nursing: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Lavinia Dock describes how early Christianity set the tone for women by encouraging them to follow the teachings of Christ as caretakers of the sick.
At this time, a nurse or caretaker was an acceptable role for both married and single women, allowing women social and economical stability while still maintaining a subservient role to their male counterparts. While deacons of the church would ordain the women as deaconesses for the sick, women often organized their own groups determined to aid others in Eastern parishes and abroad as missionaries. These early examples displayed independence and introduced missionary work as another important aspect of the history of nursing.
Florence Nightingale, whose name symbolizes and synchronizes with the word nurse, wrote letters, calling the nurse a traveling healer. Nightingale, hailed as the pioneer of nursing held missionary nursing at high importance. Much of her educational pieces were about her time as a missionary nurse during the Crimean War, where she took a group of nurses to aid soldiers and displaced victims. Nightingale's triumphs include missionary work as well as the over-all practice of medicine and the treatment of patients. Nurses today have studied Nightingale Nursing and great technological advancements have been made from the research she gathered more than a century ago.
In 1883, Nightingale was awarded the Royal Red Cross, a military decoration awarded by the United Kingdom for exceptional military service in nursing. Military nursing and the medical treatment of the displaced effortlessly flows into the next era in the history of nursing: The Red Cross.
Nursing and the Red Cross have been linked since the 1800s; however, the Red Cross' nursing service was formally established by Jane Delano in 1909. One cannot talk about the history or the evolution of nursing without looking at the Red Cross' contribution. Currently, more than 30,000 nurses are involved in Red Cross service.
The nursing profession has evolved over time as a life calling chosen by religious leaders to missionary work taking nurses around the world in medical and humanitarian capacities. But where does the profession stand today?
Nurses now hold a variation of different roles in the health care profession. Carmen Houston, RN and Research Coordinator of the MAC Study at the Core Center of Chicago, has more than 20 years of experience in the nursing profession. Most importantly, she said, nurses are vice-presidents, members of Board of Directors and administrative forces. Throughout history, the nursing field had been increasingly professionalized. It is one of the most in-demand careers to date.
Nursing came about as a need to take care of the ill. Past nurses paved the way and opened doors to other opportunities, bridging different occupations. Theirs was a life calling, first to the patient and then to mankind.
Caring for the sick rapidly became women's work and the spirit of community service was intensified by every condition under which Christians lived at the time. In A Short History of Nursing: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Lavinia Dock describes how early Christianity set the tone for women by encouraging them to follow the teachings of Christ as caretakers of the sick.
At this time, a nurse or caretaker was an acceptable role for both married and single women, allowing women social and economical stability while still maintaining a subservient role to their male counterparts. While deacons of the church would ordain the women as deaconesses for the sick, women often organized their own groups determined to aid others in Eastern parishes and abroad as missionaries. These early examples displayed independence and introduced missionary work as another important aspect of the history of nursing.
Florence Nightingale, whose name symbolizes and synchronizes with the word nurse, wrote letters, calling the nurse a traveling healer. Nightingale, hailed as the pioneer of nursing held missionary nursing at high importance. Much of her educational pieces were about her time as a missionary nurse during the Crimean War, where she took a group of nurses to aid soldiers and displaced victims. Nightingale's triumphs include missionary work as well as the over-all practice of medicine and the treatment of patients. Nurses today have studied Nightingale Nursing and great technological advancements have been made from the research she gathered more than a century ago.
In 1883, Nightingale was awarded the Royal Red Cross, a military decoration awarded by the United Kingdom for exceptional military service in nursing. Military nursing and the medical treatment of the displaced effortlessly flows into the next era in the history of nursing: The Red Cross.
Nursing and the Red Cross have been linked since the 1800s; however, the Red Cross' nursing service was formally established by Jane Delano in 1909. One cannot talk about the history or the evolution of nursing without looking at the Red Cross' contribution. Currently, more than 30,000 nurses are involved in Red Cross service.
The nursing profession has evolved over time as a life calling chosen by religious leaders to missionary work taking nurses around the world in medical and humanitarian capacities. But where does the profession stand today?
Nurses now hold a variation of different roles in the health care profession. Carmen Houston, RN and Research Coordinator of the MAC Study at the Core Center of Chicago, has more than 20 years of experience in the nursing profession. Most importantly, she said, nurses are vice-presidents, members of Board of Directors and administrative forces. Throughout history, the nursing field had been increasingly professionalized. It is one of the most in-demand careers to date.
Nursing came about as a need to take care of the ill. Past nurses paved the way and opened doors to other opportunities, bridging different occupations. Theirs was a life calling, first to the patient and then to mankind.
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