NSG 2113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cohort Study, Soo Line Railroad, Data Analysis
7 Nov 2016
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Goal: maintain health and provide comfort and care to the sick. Nursing is motivated by altruism; based on ethical standards. Ancient egyptians- preventing illness & promoting health. Good diet is important to maintaining health (fruit, veggies, fish, milk, seeds, oils). Greeks: hippocrates developed treatments based on symptoms. He is considered the father of scientific medicine. Romans: recognized importance of fresh water + public hygiene (public baths, toilets, sewers) Hebrews: dietary laws; how to safely eat meat of slaughtered animals. Christian period: nursing was seen as the act of loving and caring & was taken on by women. There were devastating epidemics: smallpox, diphtheria, cholera, scarlet fever. 1st laywoman in new france to provide nursing care was marie rollet. Nuns came to new france to care for sick + educate (battled smallpox. 1st nurses to tend to the sick= male attendants & jesuit priests (missionary immigrants to new france also wanted to convert aboriginals to christian)
