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Development of Nursing

Development of Nursing. Dorothea Dix 1802-1887. 1814- Dorothea left home because of alcoholic/abusive parents 1821- Opened school in Boston. Taught children from well-to-do families. After some time she decided to poor and neglected children at home.

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Development of Nursing

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  1. Development of Nursing

  2. Dorothea Dix 1802-1887 • 1814- Dorothea left home because of alcoholic/abusive parents • 1821- Opened school in Boston. Taught children from well-to-do families. After some time she decided to poor and neglected children at home. • 1836- met the Rathbone family who introduced her to the belief that government should help with social welfare. • 1840 & 1841- Returned to America to care for mentally ill people who had no one to care for them. • 1846- Traveled to Illinois to study mental illness. She met with legislature and they adopted first mental hospital. • 1848- called for reform in mental illness when visiting North Carolina. • 1849- North Carolina State Medical Society formed • 1856- Hospital named after Dorothea Dix

  3. Dorothea Dix 1802-1887

  4. Florence Nightingale1820-1910 • Known as British nursing hero of Crimean War • Soldiers called her “Lady with the Lamp” because she worked throughout the night helping British soldiers. • 1858- Took notes entitled Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hospital Administration of British Army, started reform in hospitals. • 1860- published notes on nursing • 1860- opened a nursing school at Saint Thomas Hospital in London • Felt nurses should be trained in science and also advocated for attention to cleanliness and nurses should have compassion for patients • She started nursing to be the important profession that it is today and saw to it that hospitals were kept safe and clean from patients.

  5. Florence Nightingale 1820-1910

  6. Linda RichardsAmerica’s First Trained Nurse1841-1930 • Parents hoped for her to become missionary • At age of 4, family moved. 6 weeks after her father passed away from lung hemorrhage. • Family moved back to Newbury, VT. Her mother became ill with tuberculosis. • Linda nursed her mother through her final illness and was only 13 years of age when her mother passed. • She began training under Doc Currier, the family doctor. • 1860- got married • 1865- husband got ill. She nursed him until his death in 1869. • She moved to Boston and was hired as an assistant nurse at Boston City Hospital

  7. Linda Richards (continued) • Signed up for nurse-training program. • A year after training she is first to graduate • Created a system for charting and keeping medical records for each patient. • 1874- ready to take over the floundering Boston Training School • 1877- met Nightingale who suggested she attend King’s College Hospital and the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in England • 1878– becomes ill from overwork and uses that to open first nurse-training program in Japan. • 1883- opened more schools in Massachusetts, Philadelphia, and Michigan.

  8. Linda Richards 1841- 1930

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