Nursing education refers to formal learning and training in the science of nursing. This includes the functions and duties in the physical care of patients, and a combination of different disciplines that both accelerates the patient’s return to health and helps maintain it.
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Nursing and nursing education have undergone striking changes over the centuries. This history reveals a constant struggle for autonomy and professionalism. There have been many influences on nursing practice in the past, including women’s struggle for professional acceptance and status, religion, war, technology, and societal attitudes. These factors still influence nursing today. During the past decades, the profession worked to improve its image.
Nursing education in the United States had its beginnings in Europe. In 1836, in Kaiserwerth, Germany, Theodor Fliedner opened a small hospital and training school called the Order of Deaconesses. Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, received her formal training at this school. In 1859, she published Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not in London. This was not intended as a text for nurses but for the ordinary woman who was the nurse for her family. In 1869, voting rights for women were promoted with the organization of the National Women’s Suffrage Association and Lavinia Dock, a nurse, used the organization to promote and expand nurses’ rights.
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