HISTORY OF NURSING

Course overview

Although history never repeats itself with complete duplication, the history of nursing, healthcare and nursing education has experienced interesting and insightful patterns and trends. This course covers the transitions of healthcare from sorcery and superstition to science, from care within the household to care in hospitals, and from care provided by unskilled and uneducated nurses to the current trend of professionalism and advanced degrees. At the conclusion of the course, the learner will be able to: 1. Relate the history of nursing and nursing education from primitive times to the current day. 2. Describe the impact of factors and forces that have affected the emerging role of nursing practice to its current state. 3. Identify healthcare and nursing historical patterns and trends throughout the course of history.