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Discoveries of X-Ray
X-Ray – Before x-rays repairing broken bones and identifying the cause of many other problems would have been hugely more difficult and has played a role in coloring our understanding of the human body even further. When Conrad Rontgen first discovered the technique in 1895 he used it to create an image of his wife’s hand.
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Changes In Health Care Setting
The health care setting used to be in the home or on the battlefield for many women in the nursing field. There was a clear preference and need for health care to be practiced at home whenever possible. Home visits were more common than visits to the hospital, which were mainly reserved for those that were extremely ill, badly injured, or near death.
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Changes In nurses Culture
Nursing culture in the early 20th century was known as being mostly female with a rudimentary amount of medical knowledge. There was a focus on acting presentable and acting respectfully, and acting as the obedient to every patient.Today, this culture has changed a lot; nursing is about education and health care knowledge.
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Discoveries Of Insulim
Although Before the discovery of insulin in 1920 by Frederick Banting, diabetes was a condition that would lead to a slow and unpleasant death. Today, most diabetic patients manage to live normal and full lives which has affected the lives of millions of people around the world.
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Discover Of Pencilin
Another groundbreaking drug that has become so widely used that it seems commonplace. Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928, almost entirely by accident – a petri dish left overnight showed that a mold was actively repelling the bacteria around it. Fleming developed the anti-biotic and it is now used to treat a number of viruses and infections.
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Changes In No Option But To See A Doctor
From the 1920s through the 1940s, some doctors were continually on call, causing states and accreditation councils to place 80-hour limits on residents' workweeks for the first time. Physicians' paychecks were also high.Those roles, including that of the nurse practitioner, began to emerge some 45 years ago.
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Uniforms Changed
Nurse uniforms and dress codes have developed since the 1960s and earlier, when nurses were expected to wear dresses, caps and capes and absolutely no jewelry. Today’s nurses wear more handy scrubs and a lot of healthcare facilities have calm down about the rules about cosmetics and jewelry. https://www.collegerecruiter.com/blog/2012/07/24/how-nursing-has-changed-through-the-years/ -
Changes IN Technology
In the hospital environment is done with paper and pen today, as opposed to 50 years ago.Technology plays a role in every part of life today, and nursing and healthcare is no exception. In addition to learning the basics of medical care, nurses today also need to learn to operate often complex computer systems for patient charting, medication distribution and more.
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Changed In Salaries
A lot of healthcare facilities offer excellent benefits as well, including flexible schedules that weren’t as common 50 years ago. Changes in minimum wage influence the value of nursing salaries, you can’t argue the point that nurses make more money today than any other time in history. Also some specialty nurses make well over $70,000 and sum make over 6 figure .
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Disvoeries Of Small Pox
Smallpox was once a horror of a disease The last recorded case was in 1977, but the worldwide figures for the 20th century still stand at around 30 million deaths. The vaccine was discovered by Edward Jenner, who had learned that a milkmaid was immune to the disease because she’d been exposed to cowpox.
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Changes In Eduacation
Professional nurses have always had to meet education and training standards, but the standards today are more challenging than ever.. Government requirements for nursing licenses are more complex than ever before, nurses need to complete additional education and training to stay up-to-date.
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Discovery Of HIV
HIV was discovered in the 1980s by Robert Gallo and and following an influx of patients around the time. This discovery of course led to a greater awareness of the dangers of unprotected sex.
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The Disoveries of the Vtiamins
Vitamins – The discovery of vitamins by Frederick Hopkins and contemporaries, accomplished through feeding studies using animals at the start of the 1900s, led to a far better understanding of nutrient and helped to prevent many illnesses and conditions that resulted from deficiencies.
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Changes In Training
Training wasn’t even necessary and organized training wasn’t offered to caretakers.Today,there are a wide variety of nursing programs, specialties, degrees, and certifications for different types of nursing.The 2010 Institute of Medicine report, the Future of Nursing, recommended that nurses work to the “full extent of their training”.https://minoritynurse.com/how-nursing-has-changed-over-time/
