Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts

2011/06/20

Nursing College - History to Today

A nursing college is a type of educational asylum providing pedagogy and real time training to become a fully modified nurse. The nature of instruction and qualifications varies substantially across the concerns in the world, which is for example nursing in US is different from the nursing in the UK.

One of the pioneers in establishing the idea of schools was Florence Nightingale from her foot at St Thomas' Hospital, London in 1860 when she unsealed the 'Nurse Breeding Cultivate for Nurses'. Her view was to prepare nurses to an unlimited quality, with the key aim of acquisition to prepare attention of skills and sensitiveness to patient needs, then estimate them to transmute in infirmary posts across the unregimented Land and foreign. Her affect flourished and nursing is now a teaching taught at all country universities.

Florence Nightingale established the Bellevue Hospital School of, New Dynasty Municipality which was founded in 1873, was the archetypal edifice of nursing in the United States to be supported on the principles of nursing. The period operated at Bellevue Hospital until its shutdown in 1969. One of the very primary nursing schools which constituted in the United States was the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing founded in 1889 in consultation with Florence Nightingale. The University of Minnesota was the premiere university based on nursing package. In 1923, in the United States, Yale School of Nursing became the premier sovereign school of the programme rather than on hospital function needs.. It had its own faculty, budget, dean, and degree meeting the standards of the University. In 1956, the Columbia University School of Nursing became the honours in the United States to parcel the master's degree in a clinical specialty.

Math, English, and other basic level courses are required as the prior condition to get training of the courses. Standard courses in biology, anatomy and physiology are compulsorily required. Set coursework includes pharmacology, pathology, anatomy and physiology. Moreover, a reinforced grandness is set on procedural upbringing, specified as movement of intravenous and urinary catheters, sterilised dressing changes, correct management of medications, tangible examinations, love bedside demeanour, and other essential skills. After the original semester canonical skills are obtained, students circumvolve through Obstetrics, Mental Health, Medical, Surgical, Oncology, Critical Care and Paediatric Units to get a perfect view of nursing and what it includes. Several schools use an accelerated Bachelors point in software. A saltation of the Second degree BSN is the Accelerated BSN. In company to having you approval for having realised your liberal discipline requirements, an Accelerated BSN show instrumental countenance you to thoroughgoing your undergrad programme's education requirements soon quickly than students registered in a conventional BSN nursing idea. Expedited BSN programs ordinarily consume 12 months to Level BSN and Expedited BSN programs. A 3.0 GPA is often an entrance requirement for both Second Degree BSN and Accelerated BSN programs.

Degrees granted through nursing:

Diploma in NursingAssociate of Science in NursingBachelor of Science in NursingMaster of Science in NursingDoctorate in Nursing

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2011/06/19

Hands Across Tunisia - A Brief History of Tunisia

Tunisian History

Tunisia's positioning is in the heart of the Mediterranean placing it in the cross-ways of several of the worlds distinguished civilizations. Conquerors such as Phoenicians, Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, Turks, Spanish and French have all left their legacies in both art architecture and the rich fabric of the Tunisian high society.

Tunisia is likewise to the home of Hannibal and the positioning of the ancient urban center of Carthage that was the navel world power of the day.

In this department, we'll contribute selective information on Tunisian History along with points and listings for Museums and attractions that make Tunisia a miraculous place to see.

Tunisia, in addition to, has a rich Islamic inheritance with numerous beautiful mosques and among one of the holiest metropolises in Islam in Kairouan. Nonetheless, you'll be able to experience and see minarets and listen to the the call to prayer in any township and urban center in Tunisia.

If a more modern take on history is your affair, then you're guaranteed to have a dandy time in the south of Tunisia exploring locations used in several films such as "Star Wars" and "The English Patient".

You will be able to even stay in a troglodyte cave for the night if your heart is fixated on doing this.

1st, I would like to explain and clear up a couple of matters. Broadly speaking, in the academic world, we divide humanity's past into 2 main periods: prehistoric culture and History. And so, what is the difference of opinion between these 2 periods and when did they come about?

The difference between the 2 is the "visual aspect of Writing"; in the Prehistory period humanity hadn't yet began to write but in the History period we start to see proof and evidence of it.

Presently, we think the Prehistory period starting with the 1st known biped primates - the Australopithecus, who came out roughly around six million years BC - and ended around the fifth century BC.

Further more, the History period began with Herodotus (Halicarnassus, 484 BC - Thourioi, 420 BC) as he was the 1st historian, that's why we call him "The Father of History". So from now on we have Prehistory and History. Inside those 2 periods there are "sub-periods":

The Prehistory period has 3 sub-periods:

- The Paleolithic - The Neolithic - The age of iron

The History period has 4 sub-periods:

- The Antiquity (From Herodotus till the fall of Rome on 476 AD)

- The Medieval period (From 476 AD till the fall of Constantinople on 1453)

- The Modern Period (From 1453 till the French Revolution on 1789)

- The Contemporary period (From 1789 till now)

If we examine and take a closer look at all those dissimilar periods of Tunisian Prehistory and History, we'll see that Tunisia has always been symbolized and represented.

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2011/06/18

The History of Phlebotomy

The history of phlebotomy actually goes back to ancient Egyptian and Greek societies, although the practices of drawing blood in those early times may seem barbaric compared to the practices of modern western medicine. In those early days, the Egyptians and Greeks drew blood to eradicate evils spirits and sicknesses from patients. This was a practice that was left to barbers in the 5th century B.C., which is how the red and white striped signs originated, as a nod to the blood and tourniquet. The early bloodletting practices that were performed on U.S. soil in the days of the pilgrims were also pretty barbaric, using spring-loaded lancets to draw pints of blood into unsanitary bowls until the patient fainted. If they didn't die, they were supposed to be cured.

Fading Fast

Eventually, the bloodletting practices in the United States and around the world began to evolve along with the modern world and the rest of medical technology. As incidents such as George Washington's death from nine pints of blood that were drained to cure a throat infection increased, people began to suspect that this practice wasn't so safe or at all effective. Although it would take more than a century after Washington's death in 1799 for the bloodletting practice to die out, it eventually faded into the recesses of medical history.

Practicing Safe Blood Extraction

Now, medical professionals use sterile equipment and very fine needles to draw blood into safely sealed glass tubes, and it is more often done for testing and diagnoses purposes and not to rid the body of evil spirits and illness. Bloodletting is still occasionally performed, using these sterile modern methods, to treat rare ailments like hemachromatosis and polycythemia. Phlebotomists may also draw blood to store in blood banks for blood transfusions in surgical procedures or for patients that have lost a lot of blood in accidents.

Today, phlebotomy is a practice that is only performed by trained, qualified and certified medical professionals, at least in any civilized society this is the case. Phlebotomists must complete an accredited degree or certificate program and pass a professional certification exam before they can practice this ancient art in a hospital, clinic or private office. Every step of the process is clean, safe and sterile, so patients have nothing to fear when they have to go in to have their blood drawn for a test. The prick might hurt for a second, but it isn't gonna kill you.

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2011/06/15

A Brief History of History

Almost 250 years ago, in 1765, James Watt demonstrated his first working steam engine. From this modest seed grew and flourished the great industrial revolution, the most significant advancement in human evolution since the invention of agriculture. The industrial revolution changed forever the world that existed up until the late 1700's. No longer could only the aristocracy afford fine clothing; the loom and then the sewing machine brought decent clothing within the reach of the common man. No longer could only the rich slave holders make money from their property; any man could buy a Case steam tractor that did the work of twenty slaves and grow far more than he needed for his own sustenance, selling the excess for a profit. No longer was traveling the sole province of the elite; the canal, and then the railroad, and finally the automobile brought easy and cheap transportation to the poorest man. The industrial revolution turned the world upside-down. It destroyed feudalism, it destroyed slavery, and it destroyed aristocracy.

Unfortunately, it has not yet destroyed the aristocrats. 250 years after their demise, the gentry are still very much with us, trying desperately to restore the world to its pre-1765 state, where they, as retainers of the nobility, enjoyed prestige, prosperity, and pleasure all at the expense of the insignificant peasants. Even the United States, which benefited most handsomely from the industrial revolution, still harbors remnants of feudalistic atavists.

Perhaps the most obvious among these is the socialists, also known as communists, progressives, and liberals. Socialism is an attempt to control the industrial revolution by harnessing industry to the "state," e.g. the elite aristocrats. Rational people who decry the fact that such stupidity has been shown again and again to destroy the creation of wealth and the prevalence of individual freedom miss the point. The socialists are not stupid. They know precisely what they are doing. The destruction of individual wealth and individual freedom is their primary goal. How else could they reign once again as feudal lords?

Another area of industrial reactionism is academia. It's no accident that people like Ward Churchill, Frances Fox Piven, Ralph Keeling, and Noam Chomsky abound in the halls of ivy. The medieval schoolmen enjoyed a special and privileged place in the feudal hierarchy, and they are still appalled at the audacity of engineers and entrepreneurs who charge about rashly changing the world without their counsel or consent. Their only recourse is to try to convince our children that technology, progress, and individual freedom are evil and must be destroyed.

Finally, there are the so-called environmentalists, the "tree huggers" who spend their time inventing such preposterous charades as acid rain, ozone depletion, over-population, oxygen reduction, resource depletion, and global warming. Their objective is to destroy, or at least impede, industrialization by nit-picking it to death. "You can't build a damn here because that would endanger the snail darters." "You can't drill for oil here because that would upset the caribou."

Unfortunately, the government of the United States has allowed itself to become aligned with these anti-industrial feudalists over the years. Fortunately for us, however, the industrial revolution has a life of its own. Once the common man has tasted wealth and freedom, it will not be easily taken again from him.

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