SOSC 3113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: American Nurses Association, Public Health, Industrial Revolution
23 Feb 2015
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Nurses had to learn to face any type of patient in any condition. Historically the nursing profession resembled tasks that anyone could do. In the 19th century most people were cared for at home, only those who were desperate for care who go to a hospital. Back then most nurses were prostitutes or women from jail sentenced to go the a hospital and serve/work. Hospitals hired women to be nurses who were inexperienced and over worked. Nurses played the role of an assistant to doctors, but could never over step a doctors role. The bellview school looked for women who were mature, country women (so they knew they could work long hours), those who were not looking for sexual interests. They cleaned the buildings, bed, rooms, and patients. Black women were not welcomed in the nursing practice. Hospital trained nurses, they didn"t employ them. Once one nurse graduated, the hospitals brought in another.
