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475-1500 nurses during the middle ages were mostly women who were untrained and helped with delivery of babies of served as wet nurses.
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Mary Breckenridge started the frontier nursing service to help some of the poor living in rural parts of america.
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1113- the knights of Malta began an order of the hospital on the island of Malta as a work of hospice. the order was from sanctioned by Pope Phachal II and dedicated to st. John the baptist.
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the ordinary everyday practice of medicine let alone the kinds of domestic or marginal healing often preformed by women, were simply not part of the agenda of the discipline.
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Historians have also explored how ideas and practices about gender and baby intersect with the history of medicine in multiple ways, from studies of popular ideas about reproduction to anew interpretation of the rise of anatomy that takes gender as a central category of analysis.
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Among them were two pioneers, Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale.
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Mary Seacole, nursing in the mid 19th century was not a well regarded occupation as nurses were generally uneducated and poorly trained.
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Elizabeth Fry, a well known prison reformer, set up the first nursing school in Britain in 1840.
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During the Crimean War, nurses for the first time were allowed to work for the army.
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the end of the 19th century more nurses began to work toward changing policy in leadership and education in nursing schools.
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Nursing gradually began to gain in status by the second half of the 19th century.
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the history of pre-modern women and medicine received its first modern treatment in a 1930s overview by a feminist physician but the topic only began to receive sustained attention from the 1970s.
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Lillian Wald began promoting the role of the public health nurse to help those living outside the hospital.
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solar ship on women, health, and healing has expanded considerably since the 1970s, and such studies often complicate or nuance our more general understanding of early modern health and healing.
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Nursing is vital to be safe, humane provision of healthcare and health services to our populations.
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there is a growing recognition, from within the nursing profession, health policy makers and society, of the need to analyse the contribution of nursing to health care and its costs.
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this becomes increasingly pertinent and urgent in a situation, such as that existing in Ireland, where the current financial crises has lead to public sector employment.
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such factors increasingly common internationally, make the identification and effective use of the nursing contribution to health care and issue of international importance.
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first solar ship on practitioners has branded beyond midwives while midwives were significant health-care providers (often the only medical occupation to be clearly designated in many historical records) we can now situate them in much larger array of female healers.
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this seeks to explore the nature of nursing and the function of the nurse within the 21st century health care system, with a focus on the Irish context.