HSS 2121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Royal Infirmary Of Edinburgh, Royal Statistical Society, Canada Health Act
4 May 2016
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What she accomplished in public health care. Nursing always a component of the bigger picture. Her fame from the crimean war (1854-56) Funded the first (secular) training school for nurses". All her work based on faith, call to service, and statistics, to check what really happens; Founded the nightingale school at st thomas" hospital, first secular nursing school -- 1860. King"s college hospital: midwifery nurse training -- 1861. Vision of training schools incorporated into hospitals everywhere. Doctors trained medically, diagnose and direct treatment. Nurses were typically hospital cleaners, untrained, unskilled and poorly paid. In the army, nurses had the status of a private, reported to a sergeant, and were paid less than a cook or laundress. Nurses in 1854 at st bartholomew"s hospital, london, housed in wooden cages on the landing. Notorious for stealing their patients" food and drink. Took bribes, the cardinal sin of unreformed nursing. Recruits from unemployed servants & women of doubtful character .
