Nursing
History:
Why carry a
Lamp?
Mary Boerigter RN, BSNKaplan University
Lesson Plan
Nursing History: Why Carry a Lamp?Unit # 1
Course
Objective :
#1
*Students will develop an
understanding of the
important contributions
to the nursing profession
of others from the past.
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Nursing History: Why carry a Lamp?Course
Objective
#2 Students will be able to
identify 2 historical figures
specific to nursing .
# 3 Students will understand
the Socio/Economic period
.
#4 Students will understand why these
contributions had impact at that time.
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Learning Objectives for
this Course
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By the end of this course nursing students will be able to:
Not unlike my first Director of
Nurses!
Nursing History: Why carry a Lamp?
1. Identify 2 important figures in nursing history.
2. Understand their contribution to the nursing
profession.
3. Relate the Socio/Economic period.
4. Explain
why these figures had an
important impact on nursing
history.
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Nursing History: Why Carry a Lamp?2 noted and valiant women who overcame enormous prejudice one for her color and one her conviction.
Mary Seacole and Clara Barton
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• What was Clara Barton’s contribution to nursing and to the world?
• 1. Humble as it was she helped nurse soldiers in the field with little supplies and little knowledge.
• 2. She helped to identify over 13,000 dead.
• 3. She instituted and established
The American Red Cross.
Nursing History: Why carry a Lamp?Question:How did Mary Seacole contribute to the profession of nursing?1. Her determination provided a
understanding within the British Military
2. Her book published in 1857 introduced the idea that all women even women of color have the knowledge and understanding to provide nursing care.
Nursing History: Why carry a Lamp?
Nursing History: Why carry a Lamp?
Florence Nightingale drove home the impact of poor sanitary conditions on mortality rates during the Crimean War by reconfiguring a pie chart, varying the length, rather than the width, of the wedges, so that the graph resembled a cock’s comb. As the historian Hugh Small notes, Nightingale may not have invented statistical graphs, but “she may have been the first to use them for persuading people of the need for change.”
Who first demonstrated the use of a Pie Chart in order to persuade people the need for change?
Nursing History: Why carry a Lamp?
Could this be an early Simulator
Lab?
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Where could the Simulator Lab Be ?Maybe Here?
ReferencesClara Barton: Civil War nurse Founder of the American Red Cross. Retrieved from http://americancivilwar.com/women/cb.html
Cohen, G. Pie Chart. Retrieved from http:///unc.ed/
Seacole, M. ( 1857) Wonderful adventures of Mrs Seacole. London, UK: James Blackwood. Retrieved from http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/women
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