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History of Community Nursing Matrix

Complete the matrix with the following concepts, and relate the concepts to two different periods of time in history and the present time:

• Describe each period briefly. • Clarify the differences during each period with public health nursing and community health nursing. • Describe the key health issues. • Identify community health partnerships used during this period of time. • Describe how Watson’s Theory of Human Transpersonal Caring is related.

| |Historical time |Nursing role in |Major health issues |Partnerships used |Watson’s theory |
| |period |community | | | |
|Past period 1 |Colonial period |Nursing care was |-Poor sanitation |Early colonial public |A nurse is able to detect |
| |America |informal and was |-Small Pox |health effort included the |the other person’s condition|
| |1600-1700 |provided by household |-Yellow Fever |collection of vital |of being (Watson, 1995). The|
| | |women. They were |-Cholera |statistic, improved |theory relates to this era |
| | |responsible for taking |-Typhoid |sanitation, and control of |because it was important for|
| | |care of sick family |- Typhus |any communicable diseases |the household women to |
| | |members and also |and infant mortality|introduced through seaports|recognize diseases and treat|
| | |responsible for growing | |(Lancaster& Stanhope, |sick family members. |
| | |and collecting healing | |2008). | |
| | |herbs for use. | | | |
|Past period 2 |Industrial |Hospital demand |-Poor sanitation |The first school |The caring theory Model |
| |Revolution in |Increased requiring need|-Diphtheria |Of nursing opened through |proved the need of nursing |
| |America |of nurse’s help. Due to |-Diarrhea |apprenticeships. |education, knowledge to |
| |1850- 1900 |the demand schools |Were |-1812, the Chicago visiting|provide adequate care to |
| | |started to open to train|the result of |Nurse Association developed|patient. |
| | |nurses. |Urbanization. |a list of standing orders | |
| | | | |for nurses to follow in | |
| | | | |providing home care. | |
|Current period |America 2000 |Today Nursing profession|-Heart disease |-The role of contemporary |Development of helping , |
| | |become more respectable,|-HIV |nurses in the United States|trusting human caring |
| | |autonomous and |-Cancer |has developed from several |relationship, |
| | |challenging. Nurses are |-Obesity |sources and are the in |And cultivation of |
| | |good advocates for |Are |results of ongoing social, |sensitivity to one’s self |
| | |patients and are working|the leading cause of|economic |and the others is |
| | |hard with other |death in America. |And political forces |commonplace in the 21st |
| | |interdisciplinary team | |(Lancaster& Stanhope, |century. The challenge of |
| | |to provide better | |2008). |nursing is to create moment |
| | |patient care. | |-The Healthy People |of caring through |
| | | | |initiative has influenced |human-to-human interaction |
| | | | |Goals and priority setting |in the face of the fast |
| | | | |in public health and in |–paced world of health |
| | | | |nursing. |care(Watson.2008). |