Medical Association in 1847. Shortly after their existence this group formed a hygiene committee to conduct sanitary surveys and to develop a system to collect vital statistics (Stanhope & Lancaster, p. 25, 2012). In 1909 a pioneer of nursing Lillian Wald with the help of the Red Cross started the first public health nurse services. This service addressed communicable diseases, mother and child concerns, and injuries to help keep the cost of insurance down. “Public health was defined by the American
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first trained nurse. 1879 – Mary Eliza Mahoney graduates from the New England Hospital for Women and Children Training School for Nurses and becomes the first black American nurse. 1881 – Clara Barton established the American Red Cross. 1893 – Lillian Wald, founded the Visiting Nurse Service in New York. 1896 – The American Nurses Association (ANA) was founded. 1901 – The establishment of the United States Army Nursing Corps (NC). 1908 – The establishment of the United States Navy Nurse Corps
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Public Health Timeline Before the American Public Health Association was founded people would often die from simple infections. These same infections are currently easily prevented or cure able. Poor sanitation and lack of education destroyed families and economically damaged communities. Simple education; like proper hand washing has saved countless people from untimely death. The American Public Health Association was founded by Dr. Stephen Smith in 1872. (The History of the world, 2012).
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Tuberculosis The Purpose of this report is to understand Epidemiology of Tuberculosis, a communicable infection disease, discuss insight and contribution of Community Public Health Nurses and deliberate role of NCHHSTP play in prevention, treatment and controlling of TB on national basis. TUBERCULOSIS Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious multisystem infectious disease. Ancient Greece consultants classified such sickness as “phthisis or phthisis pulmonails” referring as a wasting away disease. First
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population in my opinion. Another point to consider is that we are caring for a culturally diverse population. Caring for the culturally diverse groups has been a focus of nursing from its beginning. As early as 1893, under the leadership of Lillian Wald, nurses in New York City started public health nursing and provided home care to inner city people, particulary immigrants, who could neither read nor write the English language (Denker 1994). Because nurses were not form the same cultural background
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF LONG-TERM CARE Mr Rueter/HSA1100 February 26, 2013 This paper is on the development of long-term care. It will explain the meaning of long-term care and the effects of the Great Depression and World War II as well as the Social Security Act which all contributed to the way long-term care is managed today. LONG-TERM CARE Long-term
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Comparison Paper What is history? Why do we need to study history? When I first started this assignment, I wondered why we needed to describe the history of public health and include pertinent dates and significant events. Being a good student, I did what I was told. While doing the research I realized that history is what shapes us. We not only learn from our successes, but our failures too. History has transformed us into what we are and why we do the things that we do. The History of
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1 Historical Development of Professional Nursing in the United States Jennifer Casavant Telford, PhD, APN-BC Arlene W. Keeling, PhD, RN, FAAN OBJECTIVES At the completion of this chapter, the reader will be able to: • Discuss the impact of Florence Nightingale's model and the American Civil War on mid to late–19th-century American nursing education. • Describe the transition of nursing education from the hospital to collegiate programs. • Discuss the role of nursing licensure in safeguarding
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A mechanic and his daughter make a discovery that brings down Autobots and Decepticons - and a paranoid government official - on them. Director: Michael Bay Writer: Ehren Kruger (screenplay) Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor Nicola Peltz ... Tessa Yeager Mark Wahlberg ... Cade Yeager Abigail Klein ... Joshua's Jr. Assistant Stanley Tucci ... Joshua Sophia Myles ... Darcy Jack Reynor ... Shane Peter Cullen ... Optimus Prime (voice) Bingbing Li ... Su Yueming
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Social Work and Social Reform: An Arena of Struggle Mimi Abramovitz The profession of social work has the potential both to meet individual needs and to engage in social change. However, the profession’s position between the individual and society often forces practitioners to choose between adjusting people and programs to circumstances or challenging the status quo. The twin pressures of containment and change have made social work an arena of struggle since its origins in the late 19th
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