Caregiver, Educator, and Advocator are a few seemingly universal terms used to describe a Nurse. Known as the protection, promotion and optimization of health abilities, Nurses save and improve lives as front line members of the health care delivery team. Nursing should not be limited to one particular area, nor should it be limited to a specific race or culture. Yet disparities in the mid-nineteenth century health care provided compelling evidence that issues of race and other ethnic minorities persisted within our society. Historical experiences of African Americans has been represented by the institution of slavery, segregation and the dehumanization of African- Americans. Nonetheless, we have come a long way in bridging the segregated …show more content…
The nursing profession was in flux, the qualities displayed by Seacole are relevant for nurses today as they were in the 1850s. She demonstrated empathy and tenderness throughout her care. As nurses we must have patience as well as a nurturing spirit. Seacole understood the alleviation of pain and home-sickness, she was aware of the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the dying. Furthermore, Seacole was extremely hard working with a great sense of humor. Similar to a nurse in today’s society, Mary Seacole possess the ability to observe and respond quickly to patients in need of care. She demonstrated leadership throughout her career, especially when she took command to treat the cholera epidemic in Central America (Anionwu).
Interdisciplinary collaboration improves quality of health. In the healthcare system this practice is becoming widely adapted. Seacole clarified the need for nurses to work well with other health professionals in order to get the best result for her patients. She worked alongside many doctors in Jamaica and Panama to prove the importance of cleanliness in hospitals and homes. Adequate nutrition and hydration is as important for nursing today as recognized by Seacole in the Victorian era
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I have always dreamt of becoming a nurse for I always long to help others during their most vulnerable times. Mary Seacole remains a beacon and shining light of hope. Her journey to achieve ambition, illustrates her as a traveling nurse in today’s society. Originating from Monrovia Liberia, I know firsthand the effect a shattered healthcare system has on an individual as well as a Nation. The lack of proper health education in my country has led to many preventable deaths. Similar to Mary Seacole, my search for proper education in my chosen field required me to travel outside my country. I have encounter many obstacles, however I have continuously demonstrated to myself as well as others that nursing is my chosen field and nothing will hinder me from achieving my
Automobiles were beginning to appear on the dirt roads, telephone service was starting to make
Mary Eliza Mahoney Biography Mary Eliza Mahoney was born May 7, 1845 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Smith, J, & Phelps, S, 1992) Mary Mahoney was the first African American professional nurse. She spent over 40 years as a private duty nurse going to sick people’s homes, nursing them back to health. She was such a wonderful private duty nurse that after joining a nursing directory, Mary was called upon time after time by the families that hired her all over the country, near and far away.
The history of nursing important to understand because it can help our professionals today to know why things are the way it is now and can have solutions to unsolvable problems from history. Captain Mary Lee Mills was an African-American woman born in Wallace, North Carolina in August 1912. She was a role model, an international nursing leader, and a humanitarian in her time. She joined many nursing associations, she participated in public health conferences, gained recognition and won numerous awards for her notable contributions to public health nursing. Her contributions throughout her lifetime made a huge impact on the world today and has changed the lives of how people live because of her passion for public health nursing. She always
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Barbara Melosh examined written and oral accounts of nurses in American from 1920 and through the Second World War in The Physician’s Hand: Work Culture and Conflict in American Nursing. She found that while the reform aim for nurse leaders in this period was professionalization, other nurses resisted or were distant from this process. For these nurses, the shared experience of the changing of the demands and rewards of nursing shaped their work and thinking. [1] Melosh attempts to place nursing within the context of women’s, labor and medical history. She proposes that the growing divisions within nursing itself arose from nurses’ position in the medical hierarchy, and the fight for both legitimate authority and control over the work process itself. She also posits that nurses developed an “occupational culture” that placed manual skill and direct patient contact over theoretical training at the same time that nursing elites were successfully winning a battle for degrees and credentialing over the apprenticeship model of the nineteenth century. [2] Lastly, she finds that while stratification of nursing as paid labor mirrored societal relations of gender, race and class, the experience of both apprenticeship and professionalization contributed to the separation of nursing from pre modern roots.[3]
Being a resident of South Carolina, African-American Culture was chosen as part of the applied learning project for the Intercultural Nursing class, because African-Americans make up more than a quarter of this state’s population. According to the 2010 United States Census Bureau, the total population for South Carolina (S.C.) is 4,625,364, with 27.9% being of African-American descent. The purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding and sensitivity to issues and cultural variances or phenomena that are unique to the African-American Culture. Another goal is to identify nursing interventions that are important for the nurse to consider in caring for this population. These phenomena’s include variances in social organization, communication, space, perception of time, environmental control, and biological variations associated with the African-American culture. (Giger, 2013 and South Carolina minority, n.d.)
Dianne is a single woman who has just graduated from nursing school. She has always loved traveling the United States, meeting new people, and experiencing new cultures. Dianne wonders how she can be successful with her career as a nurse but still get to do what she loves. Before settling down and establishing a career in one particular hospital or clinical setting, Dianne is trying to figure out a way to experience something new in the medical field. She has researched and is considering travel nursing. Travel nurses are nurses who are hired to typically contract to work specific periods in one location and then move around the country, depending on where they want to go and where they are needed; this is an opportunity many new nurses are
The class was provided with an opportunity to participate in a field study observing a registered nurse in a practical setting. The objective was to experience and gain knowledge of different settings and roles a registered nurse can practice in. During the field experience I observed a registered nurse, L. Judd, at Mount Royal University (MRU). L. Judd is currently the Chair of the Bachelor of Nursing program, and has been involved in nursing education at both MRU and McMaster University. In addition to her experience in curriculum development, L. Judd practiced in a clinical setting for ten years in intensive care and surgical units prior to her transition into a nurse educator role. Observations of L. Judd’s practice took place in a boardroom at MRU during an International Directors Working Group committee meeting. Faculty and students were working on establishing a philosophy statement regarding global health for future international education related opportunities. In attendance were six nursing faculty members, three students in the Bachelor of Nursing program and the Chair, L. Judd. Throughout the meeting I determined two domains of practice: education and administration, as well as three quality characteristics that L. Judd demonstrated as a professional and competent nurse: knowledge, leadership and collaboration which make great contribution to her impact on the health care system and the individuals she cares for.
Unequal treatment: Confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Washington, DC: National Academies Press. Taylor, Elizabeth Johnson. (2001) Spiritual Care: Nursing Theory, Research and Practice, Prentice Hall.
Puzan (2003, p. 197) discusses racial stratification being responsible for organizing social relations, meaning that through language and practice, nurses participate in the production and maintenance of patient identities. Nurses are vulnerable to interacting and responding to patients with unconscious biases, relying on embedded and accepted stereotypes. Racial health care inequality is a multidimensional problem, with barriers to health care involving the health care system, the patient, community, and health care providers themselves. A lack of awareness and education pertaining to issues of race, racism, and whiteness contribute to poor perceptions are being addressed within Australian nursing curriculum (Van Den Berg, 2010, p. 2). The relationship between health and racism has been found as the cause of persistent health differences by racial or ethnic classification and racism is identified as the root cause of the extreme socio-economic and health disadvantage experienced by Aboriginal Australians (Larson et al, 2007, p. 26). Possessing a diversity and cross cultural competency is important, as is paying attention to systemic policies and procedures that negatively impact a nurse’s ability to provide adequate care to people of all races.
My commitment to pursue a career in nursing stems from my desire for making a positive difference in another person’s life as it was made for my entire family life growing up in Western Africa. My nursing career commitment to aid in serving the underserved across the nation started from my teenage years in my original hometown Africa. I was born in the Western part of Africa and I knew and lived first-hand how impoverished health disparity is among the underserved areas in my community. While growing up in Africa and being the oldest of six siblings with a father and a mother who are uneducated; life was seriously hard not knowing where the next meal will come from. At age ten years, my father was seriously ill and was taken to the hospital
As caretakers of children, family, and community, it was natural that women were the nurses, the caregivers, as human society evolved. Nursing may be the oldest known profession in the world. The Civil War gave enormous boost to the building of hospitals and the development of nursing as a credentialed profession that was led to greater respect for nurses, something that the congresses acknowledge in the year of 1872. Linda Richards was America’s first professional trained nurse. Like most educational institutions during that time, the schools did not admit African Americans, and the informally trained black woman who nursed during the Civil War. The war was served as the beginning of moving the profession from the home to the hospitals and clinics. “There was an explosion of nursing schools in the late nineteenth century.”(www.nwhm.org) Most of the schools were associated with hospital.
Nursing is a field of work that so many people find themselves fascinated with, as well as harboring a degree of respect. We look to nurses with a sense of admiration and reverence, and look to them for security in times of need. What makes nursing such a desirable and enthralling field to other people? Despite the fact that doctors are normally under the spotlight, nursing is of profound importance in American culture. Nurses provide comfort and security, as well as a knowledge of medical aid. The field of nursing has the benefit of coming from a field that is ancient, yet timeless and has blossomed throughout history to make a large impact on our culture today.
Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy. Her parents named her after the city she was born in. She was born on May 12, 1980, she was raised mostly in Derbyshire, England. Many people when they hear Florence Nightingale think about her as a nurse and her fight for better hospital care. Florence did a lot more in her life than achieve better hospital conditions, and become a nurse.
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