Transition to Registered Nursing

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Transition to Registered Nursing

• History, Trends Philosophy of Nursing
• West Coast University
• Week 10

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Objective

• Where did nursing come from?
• Who are nurses?
• What will you be?

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Where did We Come From?

• It was not until the 1800s did nursing start to
  document history
• Primitive man
• Religion
• War
• The Nurses

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Who has Cared for the Sick?

• Primitive Man
• Used dualism to explain disease, treatment and
  care for the sick

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Who has Cared for the Sick?

• Women
• The traditional role of wife, mother, nurturer,
  subservient and dependent roles

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Who has Cared for the Sick?

• Religion
• Christian leaders used wealth to convert houses
  to places of care and healing
• This is were men got there position in caring for
  the sick
• Orders of Nuns were orgainized

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Who has Cared for the Sick?

• During War times
• Knight were of the utmost honored
• Wars brought a very large demand in caring for
  the injured and sick
• Depleted the private sector in nursing

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The Faces of Nursing

• sick

• Nightingale (1820-1910)
• First nursing theorist scientist
• Wald (1887-1940)
• Public Health
• Nurse Child advocate
• Dock (1858-1956)
• Politician, used legislation to give nursing
  responsibility for its own profession
• Nutting (1858-1948)
• First nursing educator

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And you Thought WCU was Hard

• 1872
• First formal training in nursing
• One year training
• 530am to 900pm (missed time was made up)
• 1901
• Changed nursing education because of the hours

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Nursing Education Moves Forward

• 1950
• Moved out of the hospitals into colleges
• ADN
• 1978
• BSN

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Who are Nurses Today

• Four major areas
• Practice
• Education
• Administration
• Research

• What are the degrees
• Diploma
• AS
• Bachelors
• Masters
• Doctorate
• DNP, EdD, PhD

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Put on Your Thinking Caps

• Philosophy
• What is your true understanding of the nature of
  the profession of nursing?
• Including values and beliefs
• Theory
• How do you communicate nursing in a clear precise
  way?
• To explain, predict, or guide nursing

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Future of Nursing

• Nursing shortage
• Faculty shortage
• More Men
• Fragmentation of the profession
• Associates vs Bachelors Entry level?
• Masters vs doctorate Advanced Practice?

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Jumping Forward

• Caring for the caregiver
• NCLEX-RN
• Depression
• Stabilization

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Wherever nursing takes you