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The early history of nurses suffers from a lack of source material, but nursing in general has long been an extension of the wet-nurse function of women. [3] [4]Buddhist Indian ruler (268 BC to 232 BC) Ashoka erected a series of pillars, which included an edict ordering hospitals to be built along the routes of travelers, and that they be "well provided with instruments and medicine ...
1983 – The importance of human rights in nursing is made explicit in a statement adopted by the International Council of Nurses. 1983 – UKCC becomes the profession's new regulatory body in the UK. 1984 – Under the Australian federal government plan, tertiary education for all Australian nurses was adopted. [7]
Capturing Nursing History: A Guide to Historical Methods in Research (2007) Schultheiss, Katrin. Bodies and souls: politics and the professionalization of nursing in France, 1880–1922 (Harvard U.P., 2001) full text online at ACLS e-books; Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. Historical Encyclopedia of Nursing (2004), 354pp; from ancient times to the present
In 1858 Dr. M. Sales Giron invented the first pressurized inhaler. Amphetamine was first synthesized in 1887 in Germany by Romanian chemist Lazăr Edeleanu who named it phenylisopropylamine ; [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 25 ] its stimulant effects remained unknown until 1927, when it was independently resynthesized by Gordon Alles and reported to have ...
[71] [72] [73] Opium made its way from Asia Minor to all parts of Europe between the 10th and 13th centuries. [74] Throughout 1200 to 1500 AD in England, a potion called dwale was used as an anesthetic. [75] This alcohol-based mixture contained bile, opium, lettuce, bryony, henbane, hemlock, and vinegar. [75]
Nursing is a female-dominated profession in many countries; according to the WHO's 2020 State of the World's Nursing, approximately 90% of the nursing workforce is female. [52] For instance, the male-to-female ratio of nurses is approximately 1:19 in Canada and the United States.
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Nightingale considered that Lees was the person who "really invented district nursing.” She frequently quoted her on the need to “nurse the home” as well as the patient. In 1879 Florence Lees married a Church of England priest, the Rev Dacre Craven (1832-1922), rector of St George the Martyr, Queen Square, who himself took up the cause of ...