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This is a 4 page paper that provides an overview of the history of nursing. Figures such as Florence Nightingale and Sally Tompkins are covered. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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is often reflected in the societal impression of nurses as "assistants" to physicians. While nurses may often professionally occupy such a role, such a conception reveals a very limited understanding
of what nurses actually do and what the purpose of nursing actually is. Throughout much of history, nursing developed as a discipline distinct from and unique from that of standard
medicine, such that nurses only began to occupy their hospital-based roles in recent decades. Prior to that, the practice of nursing was much more varied, and insights into its historical
development can be quite surprising. To develop a full understanding of nursing and how it is unique among healthcare occupations, one might begin with the earliest days of the
profession, by looking back to the days prior to the Enlightenment. From roughly 1 to 500 AD, nursing was for the most part the entirety of healthcare that individuals had
access to in the West. The concept of a well-educated "doctor" who could provide critical insights into disease and perform life-saving operations was entirely alien, and anyone working in health
care was much more inclined to occupy a role similar to that of a nurse, focusing on providing comfort to the suffering sick, and looking after their basic hygienic needs
(Roux 2012). It is worth noting that during this period, nursing and health care in general was very much under the dominion of the church and other religious institutions, primarily
because literacy and education in general were the sole domain of such institutions (Roux 2012). This actually led to something of a crisis for health care in later centuries. In
the 1500s, religious institutions across Europe lost a great deal of power and social importance due to the Renaissance and other social movements which placed a greater degree of importance
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