History and Evolution of

Nursing

Jed Montayre, RN, MSN, PhD(c)

HOW DID NURSING START?

WHERE DID IT BEGIN?
WHO FOUNDED NURSING?
WHAT IS NURSING?
______________________________?

ANCIENT
CIVILIZATION
NURSING WAS NOTED TO
BE AS OLD AS TIME.
IT BASICALLY STARTED
FROM :

INSTINCT
-

HUMAN NATURE

NURTURING
CARING

NURSING

EGYPTIAN RITES

HEALTH AND HEALING

BELIEFS OF ANCIENT
CIVILIZATION.
SUPERSTITION AND BLACK
MAGIC
INJURIES FROM WARS AND
OTHER TRAGIC EVENTS.

BIBLICAL RECORDS

JESUS HEALING THE WOUNDED

AND THE INFLICTED
GOOD SAMARITAN LAW

CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATIONS AND ORDERS

CRUSADES
Knights of St. John of
Jerusalem

a.k.a Knights of Hospitallers

Decendants are the Knights Templars
The first nursing orders Monastic
Order of St. Augustine

Sisters of Charity

Established by St. Vincent de Paul in

France

Monastic Orders

CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATION AND

ORDERS
Order of the
Deaconesses

Founders of the Order

Kaiserwerth Institute for Deaconesses

Founded in Kaiserwerth, Germany.

Recognised the role of women in
taking care for the sick.
Initiated the establishment of
training school for nurses.
Founders of the training school :
Pastor Theodore Fliedner &
Frederika Fliedner (wife)

..and one of the students

of this training school is

A lady named
Florence Nightingale
An English lady from a
wealthy family during
the Victorian era
During the Crimean
War- known to be the
Lady with the Lamp
A nursing theorist,
writer and statistician.

Prior to Florence Nightingale

Is the Dark Age for Nursing because

Nursing is considered as

Who are the nurses?

A very low job in terms of social

hierarchy.
A job for the uneducated and
poor.
A desperate occupation.

Women of lowest social standing

Wayward women of low status,
instead of going to prison, they
were asked to served as nurses.
monastic women or untrained
helpers of low repute.
Poor unmarried woman with no
family or no chance of getting
married.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Changed the image of
nursing

Dubbed as the Lady

with the Lamp

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
NOTES on NURSING(1859)

What it is
and What it
is not

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
School of Nursing
In 1860, Nightingale
laid the foundation of
professional nursing
when the first school
of nursing was
established.

Nightingale Training School at

St. Thomas Hospital

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Environmental Theory

Maintaing the a safe and

clean environment to
Promote well-being

Transformation of Nursing into a

Profession
Nightingale Nurses

Linda Richards- the first

American trained Nurse
(1870) became a great
nursing pioneer in USA and
Japan.

Some nurses became the

matrons at several leading
hospital (St. Marys,
Westmisnter Hospital, Royal
Victoria Hospital, Sydney
Hospital)

Transformation of Nursing into a

Profession
Nightingale describes
Nursing as:

SCIENCE
Nursing is a body of
scientific knowledge
using empirics.

ART
Nursing has its own
way proper way of
doing things and
applying knowledge.
(Example the interaction between a
health consumer and the nurse)

Milestones in Nursing
Training and
Education

Development and
Establishments of
Nursing Schools all
over the world.

Milestones in Nursing
Regulating Agency/
Body

Existence of
Regulating Body for
Nurses that sets that
the conduct of nurses
and regulates safe
nursing practice

Milestones in Nursing
A Professional
Organization

Development of
Nursing Organizations
from local to
international levels

Milestones in Nursing
Continuing Education

Continuing
professional education
and training for nurses
for competency
(Trainings, Masters degree in
Nursing, Doctorate in
Nursing)

Milestones in Nursing
Publication
Nursing has a voice,
has free medium of
expression and has
the right to be heard
in the discussion of
issues pertaining to
the healthcare
delivery system and
the like

Milestones in Nursing
Community
Involvement

Nursing has extended

roles and has various
participation in the
community service
and industry.

Milestones in Nursing
Community Service

Eg. Health Expo

Milestones in Nursing
Development of New Nursing
Knowledge

Development of
Nursing Theory and
applied it into nursing
practice.

Milestones in Nursing
Involvement in
Research and geared
research outputs
results towards
Evidenced-Based
Practice.

Is Nursing A Profession?

YES

A
VERY
NOBLE PROFESSION

WHY DO WE SAY SO?

WHAT MAKES NURSING A
PROFESSION?
Characteristics of a
profession
Education and Training
Regulating Body
Code of Ethics
Professional Organization
Publication and
Representation
Research and Application
(EBP)
Autonomy

INDEED NURSING IS A
PROFESSION.

THEREFORE EVERY NURSE IS

EXPECTED TO HAVE
PROFESSIONALISM.

HOW ABOUT THE NURSES OF

TODAY?
WHAT WILL YOU BECOME THREE
YEARS FROM NOW?

OR

Pathway of Nursing Professionals

Elderly Care

Pathway of Nursing Professionals

Emergency Nursing

Pathway of Nursing Professionals

Acute Ward Nursing (Medical/ Surgical)

Pathway of Nursing Professionals

Pediatric Nurse

Pathway of Nursing Professionals

Military Nursing

Pathway of Nursing Professionals

Theater Nurse

Pathway of Nursing Professionals

Industrial Nursing (School Nurse, Company
Nurse)

Pathway of Nursing Professionals

Nurse Educators

Pathway of Nursing Professionals

High Dependency Unit

Pathway of Nursing Professionals

Mental Health Nurse

The EVOLUTION OF THE NURSING

PROFESSION
FROM

TO

ITS JUST LIKE THIS..

Through the years

Nursing has gone a long way
Because of
her legacy..
FLORENCE
NIGHTINGCALE
Founder of
Modern Nursing

LONDON, "May, 1872.

FOR us who Nurse, our Nursing is
a thing, which,
unless in it we are making
progress every year,
every month, every week, take
my word for it
we are going back.
The more experience we gain,
the more progress
we can make. The progress you
make in your
year's training with us is as
nothing to what you
must make every year after your
year's training
is over.

-Florence Nightingale

THANK YOU!

Jed Ray Montayre, RN, MSN, PhD(c)

February 2013