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Period: 500 to
Middle Ages
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Jan 1, 600
First Hospital
Around the late 500’s to early 600’s, the first Spanish hospital was created in Merida, Spain, with many of its nurses being supplied by the Catholic church. -
Jan 1, 764
Emperor Charlemagne
Medieval Emperor who ruled much of western europe from 764 to 814. -
Jan 1, 800
House Calls
Nurses were often asked to provide assistance and care by traveling to neighboring areas in order to make house calls. -
Jan 1, 800
Equipment
Emperor Charlemagne came to the decision to restore and equip these hospitals with all of the latest medical equipment of that time. -
Jan 1, 1000
Charitable Houses
The mid 1000’s also saw a rise in what are known as charitable houses, as they were brought over to England by the Normans during their conquest and eventual capture of that very country. -
Period: Jan 1, 1301 to
Renaissance
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Jan 1, 1400
Monks and Nuns
Monks and Nuns would take care of patients in a catholic church or at home because of the shut down. -
Jan 1, 1543
Andreas Vesalius
one of the most profound founders of advanced medical science, he had an impact in better understanding the anatomy of the body. -
Diseases
During the sixteen centuries, diseases like typhus, yellow fever, bubonic plague and syphilis to name a few killed thousands of people. The movement of new discoveries and learning had not affected the improvement of nursing and caring for the sick. -
Woman of care
Woman of higher class were forbidden to work as a nurse. They had no responsibilities but to just look pretty. Only nuns became nurses before the Reformation took place. After the reformation, people lacked hope and had not belief in the Catholic Church. -
Daughters of Charity
a man and women by the name of Saint Vincent de Paul and Louise de Marrillac came to existence in the early 1600s. They noted that the sick and poor needed help but wanted to help them physically and spiritually. He and Louise de Marrillac organized a group of nurses and founded the Daughters of Charity in 1633. The Daughters of Charity enlisted young peasant girls to be trained for six months on how to care for patients physically and spiritually. -
The shut down
as Europe entered the beginning of the 17th century, nursing as a whole became exceedingly diminished for a wide variety of reasons. For one, most monasteries were shut down during the Protestant reformation, as well as the hospitals within them. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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war
the nursing profession expanded to include care of soldiers during many prominent wars. -
Crimean War
During the Crimean War, nurses for the first time were able to for in the army. -
nursing tactics in the war
The nurses would gather the men and study their bodies to know their health conditions. They would have to work with equipment that was very unsanitary. -
nurses in the war
In 1853, Florence Nightingale served as a nurse during the Crimean War, during which she not only cared for the injured, but set standards of cleanliness in the areas where she worked; her sanitary reforms reduced the overall incidence of infection where they were implemented. -
Training
More schools started to take action in the nursing career area and this helped with modern nursing to progress. -
Hands On
In the 1900's in the united states schools became more controlled by hospitals instead, allowing for a more hands on approach to training which provided highly useful in giving prospective nurses the necessary tools to train effectively. -
Period: to
Modern World
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WW1
The first world war gave a huge boom to trauma nurses within the country. They would take care of men with very major injuries were occuring at this time. -
National Nursing Shortage
In 1990 there was a national Nursing shortage. By 1998 commission focused on areas: student recruitment and educational pathways and restructuring services. they were desperate for help and eventually made it possible to multiple areas gain more nurses. -
Eddie Bernice Johnson
Elected to a texas congressional seat, the first registered nurse elected to congress. -
Spiritual Care
Nurses are acknowledging moral injury fundamentally a contemporary recognition that trauma can cause much deeper infectious and afflictions than just physiological harm. -
Situations
Trauma Nurses will work in situations where they can deal with trauma. Including military. Their role is to initially asses a patient , stabilize them and provide them with critical care. -
EMS
Its more normal now and days for trauma nurses to be with the EMS. They will transport to an area where there is an emergency situation where people are injured and will help them to get the medical attention they need. -
Period: to
21st Century
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University of chicago medicine
One of the busiest trauma centers in Chicago since opening in may 2018. A center created by Robert R. McCormick -
Be patient
Helping victims as a trauma nurse is emotionally tiring and its hard. The nurses must stay patient with the patients and must fulfill to their needs.Being a trauma nurse is very stressful and you'll have long days. -
paramedics
paramedics are a huge improvement to society. They will transfer to certain places to help people in emergency situations. Trauma Nurses are able to be in the ambulance when in a major situation when needed.
