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The History of Nursing
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The History of Nursing Discuss the changes that have occurred in nursing over the last two centuries Nursing through the years has improved dramatically due to factors such as the way women were perceived and social reforming. With the advancement of medical knowledge the nursing profession has grown from strength to strength with society understanding the need to train, educate and establish sanitary standards. All of which we can be grateful to many pioneers throughout the years such as Florence Nightingale and Ethel Bedford-Fenwick. In earlier centuries nursing care was usually provided by volunteers who were untrained or those who possessed little training. During the reign of Henry VIII, nurses were seen to be the 'dregs' of society and nursing was considered an unsuitable occupation for 'proper' women, this was undoubtedly due to the fact that hospitals in those days were dirty pest houses were patients usually died and the people who were...
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