WHAT DOES NURSING MENA

Many people think that nursing is confined to the care of the suffering. Nursing does look after a patient who needs looking after. But another basic function of the nurse is also to prevent people from falling sick. A nurse is actively involved in the cure as well as the prevention of a certain disease. It is they who, as part of a health team, do their best in educating society how to prevent diseases from getting hold of its members. She is concerned with equal competence with those who are healthy a those who are not (whom she cares for and helps in curing). Coming back to the history of nursing the modern nurse as we know her owes her origin to the deaconesses and widows of the early Christian church who would go out and visit the patient at his place. These were fully nut rained and untaught ladies but did best in helping their patient face their pain. The lack of training was for the simple reason that there was nobody to train them at that time.

What drove these early nurses to their patients was their desire to serve and be of some relief to the suffering. That desire in fact was the only qualification they had. Came 1633 and the first training institute if one could call it that was opened in Paris, France. This was started by St. Vincent de Paul who was the first person to feels the need of a proper training for nurses. He also established the order of nursing called Sisters of Charity St. de paul had opened no institute to impart training in nursing. He has just instituted the instruction for nursing. The first real institute for nursing was established in the beginning of the 19^th century. Though the effort of Theoder Fliedner and wife Fredericka. This institute was part of a small hospital in Kaiser Worth, in Germany, where women were given training in the duties of a nurse. It was here that the great Florence Nightingale began her training in 1851.