NURS1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Camillus De Lellis, Juan De Mena, Medicine Man
17-10-31
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History of Nursing
Brenda Hay, MN-ANP
INAP Program
History of Nursing
• History of men in nursing:
– John Ciudad (1495 -1550) founded the order
of the brothers of St. John of God or the
Brothers of Mercy in (1538). He opened a
hospital in Grenada and asked a group of
friends to assist in providing care to the
mentally ill, homeless, crippled, derelicts, and
abandoned children. Men of this order also
visited the sick in their homes.
History of Nursing
• St. Camillus de Lellis (1550 -1614)
founded the Nursing Order of Ministers of
the sick. Men of this order cared for the
dying, people stricken with the plague, and
alcoholics. St. Camillus opened a hospital
for alcoholics in Germany
History of Nursing
• Seventy years before the Pilgrims
landed on Plymouth Rock, Fray (Friar)
Juan de Mena was shipwrecked off the
south Texas Coast. He is the first
identified nurse in what was to become
the United States.
History of Nursing
• In 1783, James Derham, a black slave,
worked as a nurse in New Orleans and
saved the money to purchase his
freedom.
• He later studied medicine and became
a respected physician in Philadelphia.
History of Nursing
• Walt Whitman (1819-1892),
poet and writer, served as a
volunteer hospital nurse in
Washington, DC during the
Civil War. He recorded his
experiences in a collection of
poems called "DRUMTAPS"
and in his diary, "SPECIMEN
DAYS and COLLECT".
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