This provides a brief and colourful presentation about the history and evolution of nursing

1. History and Evolution of Nursing
Jed Montayre, RN, MSN, PhD(c)

2. HOW DID NURSING START?
WHERE DID IT BEGIN?
WHO FOUNDED NURSING?
WHAT IS NURSING?
______________________________?

3. ANCIENT
CIVILIZATION
NURSING WAS NOTED TO BE AS OLD
AS TIME.
IT BASICALLY STARTED FROM :
INSTINCT
- HUMAN NATURE
NURTURING
CARING
NURSING

4. EGYPTIAN RITES
HEALTH AND HEALING BELIEFS OF
ANCIENT CIVILIZATION.
SUPERSTITION AND BLACK MAGIC
INJURIES FROM WARS AND OTHER
TRAGIC EVENTS.

5. BIBLICAL RECORDS
JESUS HEALING THE WOUNDED AND
THE INFLICTED
GOOD SAMARITAN LAW

6. CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATIONS AND ORDERS
“CRUSADES”
Knights of St. John of Jerusalem Sisters of Charity
• a.k.a Knights of Hospitallers
• Established by St. Vincent de Paul in France
• Decendants are the Knights Templars
• The first nursing orders – Monastic Order of St.
Augustine

7. Monastic Orders

8. CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATION AND ORDERS
Order of the Deaconesses Founders of the Order
• Founded in Kaiserwerth, Germany. • Kaiserwerth Institute for Deaconesses
• Recognised the role of women in taking
care for the sick.
• Initiated the establishment of training
school for nurses.
• Founders of the training school : Pastor
Theodore Fliedner & Frederika Fliedner
(wife)
..and one of the students of
this training school is …

9. A lady named…
Florence Nightingale
• An English lady from a
wealthy family during the
Victorian era
• During the Crimean War-
known to be the “Lady with
the Lamp”
• A nursing theorist, writer
and statistician.

10. Prior to Florence Nightingale
Is the Dark Age for Nursing because…
Nursing is considered as Who are the nurses?
• A very low job in terms of social hierarchy. • Women of lowest social standing
• A job for the uneducated and poor. • Wayward women of low status, instead of
• A desperate occupation. going to prison, they were asked to served
as nurses.
• monastic women or untrained helpers of
low repute.
• Poor unmarried woman with no family or
no chance of getting married.

11. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Changed the image of nursing
• Dubbed as the “Lady with
the Lamp”

12. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
NOTES on NURSING(1859)
“What it is
and What it
is not”

13. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Nightingale Training School at St.
School of Nursing Thomas’ Hospital
• In 1860, Nightingale laid
the foundation of
professional nursing when
the first school of nursing
was established.

14. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Environmental Theory
Maintaing the a safe and
clean environment to
Promote well-being

15. Transformation of Nursing into a
Profession
Nightingale Nurses
• Linda Richards- the first American
trained Nurse (1870) became a great
nursing pioneer in USA and Japan.
• Some nurses became the matrons at
several leading hospital (St. Mary’s,
Westmisnter Hospital, Royal Victoria
Hospital, Sydney Hospital)

16. Transformation of Nursing into a
Profession
Nightingale describes Nursing as:
SCIENCE ART
Nursing is a body of scientific Nursing has its own way
knowledge using empirics. proper way of doing things
and applying knowledge.
(Example the interaction between a health
consumer and the nurse)

17. Milestones in Nursing
Training and Education
• Development and
Establishments of Nursing
Schools all over the world.

18. Milestones in Nursing
Regulating Agency/ Body
• Existence of Regulating
Body for Nurses that sets
that the conduct of nurses
and regulates safe nursing
practice

19. Milestones in Nursing
A Professional Organization
• Development of Nursing
Organizations from local to
international levels

20. Milestones in Nursing
Continuing Education
• Continuing professional
education and training for
nurses for competency
(Trainings, Masters degree in
Nursing, Doctorate in Nursing)

21. Milestones in Nursing
Publication
• Nursing has a voice, has free
medium of expression and
has the right to be heard in
the discussion of issues
pertaining to the healthcare
delivery system and the like

22. Milestones in Nursing
Community Involvement
• Nursing has extended roles
and has various
participation in the
community service and
industry.

23. Milestones in Nursing
Community Service Eg. Health Expo

24. Milestones in Nursing
Development of New Nursing
Knowledge
• Development of Nursing
Theory and applied it into
nursing practice.

25. Milestones in Nursing
Involvement in Research
and geared research
outputs results towards
Evidenced-Based Practice.

26. Is Nursing A Profession?
A
VERY
YES NOBLE PROFESSION

27. WHY DO WE SAY SO?
WHAT MAKES NURSING A
PROFESSION?
Characteristics of a profession
Education and Training ✔
Regulating Body ✔
Code of Ethics ✔
Professional Organization ✔
Publication and Representation ✔
Research and Application (EBP) ✔
Autonomy ✔

28. INDEED NURSING IS A PROFESSION.
…THEREFORE EVERY NURSE IS EXPECTED TO HAVE
PROFESSIONALISM.

29. HOW ABOUT THE NURSES OF TODAY?
WHAT WILL YOU BECOME THREE YEARS FROM
NOW?

30. OR

31. Pathway of Nursing Professionals
Elderly Care

32. Pathway of Nursing Professionals
Emergency Nursing

33. Pathway of Nursing Professionals
Acute Ward Nursing (Medical/ Surgical)

34. Pathway of Nursing Professionals
Pediatric Nurse

35. Pathway of Nursing Professionals
Military Nursing

36. Pathway of Nursing Professionals
Theater Nurse

37. Pathway of Nursing Professionals
Industrial Nursing (School Nurse, Company Nurse)

38. Pathway of Nursing Professionals
Nurse Educators

39. Pathway of Nursing Professionals
High Dependency Unit

40. Pathway of Nursing Professionals
Mental Health Nurse

41. The EVOLUTION OF THE NURSING
PROFESSION
FROM TO

42. ITS JUST LIKE THIS..

43. Through the years…
Nursing has gone a long way
Because of her
legacy..
FLORENCE
NIGHTINGCALE
Founder of Modern
Nursing

44. LONDON, "May, 1872.
FOR us who Nurse, our Nursing is a
thing, which,
unless in it we are making progress
every year,
every month, every week, take my word
for it
we are going back.
The more experience we gain, the more
progress
we can make. The progress you make in
your
year's training with us is as nothing to
what you
must make every year after your year's
training
is over.
-Florence Nightingale

45. THANK YOU!
Jed Ray Montayre, RN, MSN, PhD(c)
February 2013