Comparing The Difference Between Nursing And The Early 1900's

As an integral part of the healthcare team, nursing has evolved tremendously. In Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies a picture was painted of what the future of nursing looks like. From my own opinion I do feel that a reform or evolution in nursing education is required to create competent nurses of the future. Current nursing school programs are academic heavy with an emphasis on skills. While growing competency in clinical skills is necessary, there is much more to the future of nursing than being highly skilled.

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Throughout centuries we as a country have gone through all sorts of changes and developed laws and acts that have now to this day benefited one another in a sense of equality for receiving the same amount of chance as the next individual. The history of nursing dates back as far as the early 1700’s, when the first general hospital opened. The African American history of nursing started in 1793 when the “Free African Society” was founded, they recruited free African American volunteers to care for the citizens when a shortage of nurses occurred due to the outbreak of yellow fever. During this time instead of being rewarded for their help, a publisher named Matthew Carey bashed the volunteers and perceived them as drunks and cheats in his 1794 pamphlet, “A Short Account of the Malignant Fever Lately Prevalent in Philadelphia with a Statement of the Proceedings that Took Place on the Subject in the Different Parts of the United States”. The Free African society was not damaged but rather gave a positive outlook on protestant nurses and was later then acknowledge for civil equality and citizenship, all thanks to their leaders Absalom Jones and Richard Allen for taking a stand and defending them in their

Ask any healthcare professional if critical thinking is a necessary tool to have while working with patients and the answer would be an overwhelming YES! IF you ask those nurses how did they develop critical thinking the answer varies, Nurses would not be able to provide sound patient care without book knowledge which aids in critical thinking. In the article Brain Power: Critical thinking skills are nursing’s stock and trade (2011), the author points out that critical thinking is not the same as problem solving. Critical thinking is the process of taking information and applying it to a situation to solve or improve. As an operating room nurse, I utilize critical thinking on a daily basis.

The occupational field of nursing and the educational instruction associated with nursing has evolved from the past century due to the detail oriented research and scientifically developed contributions. The advancement of new technology and improved theory drastically upgraded nursing practices, allowing patients to experience an efficient and professional form of healthcare serves. To learn more about the changes in the field of nursing that has taken place in the last 60 years I interviewed nurses that graduated from nursing school in three different decades. Although changes have taken place in regard to educational setting, cost of education, dress code, clinical hours and state board exam, the overall core of nursing has remained the

Nursing practice in the 1900’s has changed immensely over the several decades. Education, roles, and hygiene has advanced tremendously since. Infection control started and has grown to be one of the most important roles in the medical field today. In the early 1900’s, nursing schools were directed by hospitals which provided a more useful practice for nurses to train efficiently.

Nursing, is a demanding and an exhausting career in the society. Because of the shortage and high demand on the medical treatment, there are some changes in this generation. Firstly, the gender stereotype of nurse is changing. The government had hiring more nurses not only the female but also the male so as to solve the problem of supply does not meet the demand. The popularity of male nurse is raising increasingly.

Alexandra Robbins was writing a book about the secrets of the nursing subculture in hospitals around the United States. One surprising thing that kept coming up was the practice of hazing. Hazing is when a person is put through tests or challenges normally to humiliate her. The practice has even turned deadly in some cases. Some examples of hazing in the hospital are colleagues keeping vital information to themselves, playing favorites, name-calling, spreading rumors, and even discrediting other nurses until they quit.

I have been working in the nursing home for three years now, and I have seen technological changes over the years. At first, we were using an old kiosking system to document activities of daily living (ADLs), intake and output (I&Os), vital signs (VS), and restorative nursing, while utilizing the paper MAR for medication administration and paper patients’ charts. We write our nurses’ notes in the paper chart. Our residents had been using call bells to notify staff whenever they need something. We also used an old bed alarm system, which was loud once a resident is out of bed.

All day long a nurse will use critical thinking, reasoning and judgement. These three go hand in hand and are a constant process. One cannot accomplish a task without using all three together. To perform all three, the individual performing the task must be able to use thought process to be able to perform the task safely and efficiently. After critical thinking and reasoning have been accomplished, the final step is being able to make a judgement call based on the outcome.