If with the help of correct care to remove all the conditions aggravating disease, it will take its natural course while collateral, artificial factors caused by people's mistakes, thoughtlessness or ignorance will be eliminated.
Florence Nightingale
Goal: to get a notion about the job of a nurse, the importance of patient's care, legislative bases of health protection.
Knowledge objectives:
► to know the history of the profession of a nurse, qualification requirements of the profession of a nurse, her official duties, the role of general care of a patient as a medical factor, rules of behaviour in a clinic, in a hospital.
Subject-matter:
1) a history of the profession of a nurse;
2) importance of care of a patient as a medical factor;
3) relations between medical staff and patients;
4) moral code and norms of behaviour of a nurse; the role of a nurse, her official duties;
5) legislative bases of health protection.
The importance of the patient's care is great. A nurse should strictly follow the doctor?s instructions, carry out all the actions promoting preservation and recovery of the patient?s health, relieve his sufferings, thoroughly watch the functioning of all the organs, prevent possible complications, approach tactfully to a patient. Only then the recovery of patients with different degrees of severity and with various diseases is possible.
HISTORY OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE SYSTEM OF NURSE TRAINING
The work of a medical nurse has a century-old history. Hippocrates had much to say about what is now called nursing. The first and best known of his Aphorisms is the following: «Life is short, and Art is long; occasion is fleeting; experience is fallacious, and judgement is difficult. A physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but must also make a patient, attendants, and externals co-operate». In the Middle Ages several religious orders provided and staffed hospitals. Such organizations included both help to a patient and control of epidemics. The Order of Saint Lazar patronized the leprotics, the Order of Saint Ioan had in charge Jerusalem patients in 1099. The basic care of such organizations included both help to a patient and control of epidemics. In the XIV c. there appeared religious associations of women nursing the patients. In the XVII c. charitable societies came into being and the term «nurse» (the sister of mercy) appeared.