Ethics
Context of Nursing
History of Nursing
The Mothers and Fathers of Healthcare
The Mothers and Fathers of Healthcare Part 2
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Agreement to respect another's right to self-determine a course of action; support of independent decision making
What is Autonomy?
100
The capacity to exert influence or the ability to influence other people to do things that they may or may not want to do
What is Power?
100
brought a strong belief in the sanctity of all human life to an otherwise brutal society
What is Christianity?
100
influenced nursing education, practice, and administration and helped establish nursing as a profession
Who is Florence Nightingale?
100
founded the Henry Street Settlement and Visiting Nurse Service
Who is Lilian Wald?
200
compassion; taking positive action to help others; desire to do good; core principle of our patient advocacy
What is Beneficence
200
Coercion or Legal act
What are sources of power?
200
to nourish, nurture, or suckle a child
What is nutrire (the latin root for Nurse)
200
Founded Pennsylvania Hospital (1751), the first U.S. hospital dedicated to treatment of the sick, with separate areas for the sick, the insane, and those afflicted with moral defects
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
200
was the Union’s Superintendent of Female Nurses during the Civil War
Who is Dorthea Dix?
300
avoidance of harm or hurt; core of medical oath and nursing ethics.
What is Nonmaleficence
300
Professional Unity
What is how nurses gain power?
300
Widespread plagues, particularly the bubonic plague, or black death, ravaged the known world and killed up to 50% of the entire population at the time
What is health care during the dark ages?
300
organized the Red Cross, which linked with the International Red Cross when the U.S. Congress ratified the Geneva Convention in 1882
Who is Clara Barton?
300
called the father of modern medicine made major contributions to medical practice.
Who is William Harvey?
400
This principle requires loyalty, fairness, truthfulness, advocacy, and dedication to our patients. It involves an agreement to keep our promises. Fidelity refers to the concept of keeping a commitment and is based upon the virtue of caring.
What is Fidelity
400
Raise awareness of level of diversity issues; Seek experts on cross-cultural nursing issues; Mentoring programs matching people on cultural background; & Use technology and media to connect with people of different cultures
What are Strategies to recruit and retain minorities in nursing?
400
founded by the Quakers, provided free outpatient, surgical, obstetrical, and medical services for the poor
What is the Philadelphia Dispensary?
400
originally organized to provide nursing care in the city hospitals, expanded their services to include home care and orphanages for abandoned children
What is Sisters of Charity?
400
began to understand how disease was spread, and developed aseptic practices that are still used today.
Who is Joseph Lister?
500
This theory holds that morality is relative to the norms of one's culture.
What is Ethical Relativism
500
Leadership advantage, Compensation discrepancy & Gender bias
What is Men in Nursing Gender Gap?
500
During this conflict demand for nurses increased dramatically; shortly after the war started, large numbers of women volunteers began following the armies from battlefield to battlefield and providing some basic nursing care
What is The American Civil War?
500
discovered that bacterial organisms could be killed by heat, and the process of pasteurization was born
What is Louis Pastuer?
500
a nurse who practiced midwifery in England, Australia, and New Zealand, founded the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky in 1925 to provide family-centered primary health care to rural populations
Who is Mary Breckenridge?
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