HE302 Lecture Notes - Allied Health Professions, Physician Assistant, Outline Of Health Sciences
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Duties of a hospital nurse are varies and specialized. Knights of st john of jerusalem admitted women into their order so that teyu. Thought to be the first woman to provide nursing care in canada thill a young country at the time. Nursing sisters aka nuns and members of carious religious orders emigrated to what is now quebec city and monreal to establish hospitals and treat those wounded in the wars. There nurses were more like modern nurses in that they administrated medicines: 18th and 19th centuries. Epidemics of smallpox, influenza, measles, scarlet fever, typhoid, typhus, and tb threatened the health of all canadians. In response nursing sisters from various other established hospitals as places where the sick could be segregated and cared for. 1919 the first canadian uni based degree program was established at ubc. The program emphasized technical skills following orders adhering to established medical practice --- not the development of nursing knowledge through research.
