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Chapter 2 History of Public Health and Public and Community Health Nursing

Chapter 2 History of Public Health and Public and Community Health Nursing. Colonial Period. Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601 After American Revolution— first public health committee was established Public Health Service —established in 1798 as the Marine Hospital Service

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Chapter 2 History of Public Health and Public and Community Health Nursing

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  1. Chapter 2History of Public Health and Public and Community Health Nursing

  2. Colonial Period Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601 After American Revolution—first public health committee was established Public Health Service—established in 1798 as the Marine Hospital Service Ladies Benevolent Society of Charleston (1813) Shattuck Report (1850) by the Massachusetts Sanitary Commission

  3. Nursing Developed by Nightingale Need for nurses Origins of organized nursing Principles of nursing

  4. Trained Nurses in the United States in the 19th Century Need for public health nursing Origins of organized nursing Community health organizations Occupational health nursing School nursing

  5. The Profession Comes of Age in the United States in the 20th Century 1900 to WWI New professional organizations Depletion of PHNs 1918 worldwide influenza pandemic Paying the bill for nursing services in the community Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Sheppard-Towner Act

  6. African American nurses in PHN Between the two World Wars Increasing federal action for the public’s health Social Security Act of 1935 Emergency Maternity and Infant Care Act of 1943 World War II The Profession Comes of Age in the United States in the 20th Century

  7. Rise of chronic illness Declining financial support for practice and professional organizations Hospitals preferred for illness and childbirth Funding stopped for visiting nurse services Consolidation of national nursing organizations Professional nursing education for PHN The Profession Comes of Age in the United States in the 20th Century

  8. 1960s to the present Medicare and Medicaid Civil rights movement Funding going to cost of acute hospital care National Center for Nursing Research (NCNR) IOM report: The Future of Public Health (1988) Healthy People 2010 Health care reform Nurse-managed centers The Profession Comes of Age in the United States in the 20th Century

  9. Community and Public Health Nursing Today PHN evolved from a home care service delivered by caring women who ministered to both the health and spiritual needs of individuals and families to a broadly based, public health, population-focused discipline that considers individuals, families, groups, and communities as its scope of practice.

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