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A History of Nursing Uniforms-History Name
Before the 19th Century, nursing was just an additional one daily chore or duty of women folk. Whether in the home or in the street, women have always used their nurturing dispositions and instinctive nursing and healing abilities to comfort, and in some cases cure, the sick and injured.
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In the home, women tended their own children and attended at the births of other children. In a time before hospitals, every person could benefit from some knowledge of first aid and midwifery.On the streets, unmarried women often traveled colse to poor districts where families could not afford a doctor's house call, and performed services for free in the...
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The development of Old Age and connected Issues
The development of Old Age and connected Issues-American History
In traditional Chinese and other Asian cultures the aged were extremely respected and cared for. The Igabo tribesmen of Eastern Nigeria value dependency in their aged and involve them in care of children and the administration of tribal affairs (Shelton, A. In Kalish R. Uni Michigan 1969).
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In Eskimo culture the grandmother was pushed out into the ice-flow to die as soon as she became useless.Western societies today ordinarily resemble to some degree the Eskimo culture, only the "ice-flows" have names such a "Sunset Vista" and the like. Younger generations no longer assign status to the aged and their abandonmentis...
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