Lavinia Lloyd Dock was a nurse and social activists. Living during some of the roughest times in American history including the Women’s Right Movement, the Labor Movement, and the Great Depression. During her time as a nurse, she contributed many great developments that changed the way nursing was done. As well as contributing to social form to help the poor, fighting for equal rights for women, and far labor laws (Lavinia Lloyd Dock, 2017). Her contributions had revolutionized nursing at the time and helped push the study of nursing to where it is today (Catalano, 2015).
During the life of Lavinia Lloyd Dock, the United States had faced many trials. Citizens were standing up for many unjust laws and regulations. Women were fighting for the
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Dock had a heart for activism and most of her life perusing social justice. She saw poverty and the poor hygiene as a reason for deteriorating public health. With time, she came to see that her influence was mitigated due the fact that she was a woman. Her objective then switched to address the equality gap between the sexes. Women at the time had very little say in much that happened and couldn’t vote. Dock saw this as an interference to health care reform. For multiple decades Dock pressed politicians for change believing that nurses need to have a voice that mattered. Women’s rights and the higher- quality healthcare continued to improve thanks to the work of Lavinia Lloyd Dock (Catalano, …show more content…
She graduated in 1886 from Bellevue Training School for Nurses. After graduating Dock got a job as the night supervisor at Bellevue. From her experiences as both a supervisor and student, she could see that students often had a hard time learning all the drugs that they would eventually use. To help with this problem Lavinia Lloyd Dock published Materia Medica for Nurses, the first medication textbook designed for nursing and one of the first nursing textbooks in general (Lavinia, n.d.). Textbooks help students because they lay a structured lesion along with providing the specific details they need to know in an organized fashion. With the help of Dock’s textbook, students were more easily able to learn and more effectively utilize the necessary drugs of nursing. Along with the knowledge about the drugs students also learned the necessary observations that they would need to make (Bradford-Burnam,
Lillian Wald: A Biography is the gripping and inspiring story of an American who left her mark on the history of the United States. Wald dedicated herself to bettering the lives of those around her. She was the founder of The Henry Street Settlement along with the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. She worked with politics around the world and tried to bring healthcare and reform to people around the world. Using the lessons she learned in her childhood she worked closely with people from all backgrounds to fight for “universal brotherhood”. Wald was a progressive reformer, a social worker, a nurse, a teacher, and an author. Notably Lillian Wald, unlike many of the other women involved in the progressive movement such as Jane Adams, never received the same acknowledgement in the academic world.
The book begins by describing participants in a garment industry strike and how any form of challenge to the authority, the factory owners, would be handled. He describes the money driven political corruption that allowed the owners to thwart any upheaval by sending out the muscles of the not so underworld to beat the strikers, women included. One of these occasions, in September of 1909, included Miss Clara Lemlich. She was a fiery member of the socialist party and a garment worker. She personified the change in women of the day. Women who worked and supported a family, She represented the image of “The Gibson Girl”. After leaving a strike, she was targeted as a trouble maker and one of the criminals of the day was paid to beat her. This did however backfire as a bruised woman brought more people to the cause. On many occasions the protestors were arrested on trumped up charges to punish them for making waves. The police were also believed to be on the payroll. The main political team at the time was out of Tammany Hall.
Nursing’s development from an occupation to a profession follows the devotion and sacrifice of many amazing women throughout history. Considered to be one of the oldest professions, women have performed what could be considered nursing duties since the beginning of time. Although there have been many events and many individuals who have contributed to nursing’s evolution from the occupation it was once considered to the profession that now exists, the development of formal education opportunities and scholarly resources and the women who created them is what fascinates me most. Without knowing, each of the following five women helped lay the groundwork for what Lucie Kelly, RN, PhD, FAAN, eventually termed the eight characteristics of a profession
Lucretia Coffin was born on January 3, 1793 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Lucretia was a women’s rights activist and was opposed to slavery. Lucretia grew up to be a women’s rights activist, religious reformer, and abolitionist. She was strongly opposed to slavery and was devoted to her work as an abolitionist. As she became older, word spread that she could speak in such a way that could convince her audience to join her anti-slavery boycott; however, there were people that were against the idea of ending slavery and would continually challenge her beliefs.
This work was rejected by many of the more conservative elements in the movement and a storm of protest arose as many of her colleagues condemned her. When she dies in 1902, she was no longer the movement’s leader and was unfortunately, not around to see women’s suffrage in the United States. Her crusade lasted for over fifty years of her life, as she learned and profited from her mistakes and failures, realizing that everything isn’t perfect. Even though she has been dead for quite some time now, her concerns, ideas, and accomplishments have endured and continue to influence the feminist movement and other movements for progress in the twentieth century.
In anaylsing the validity of this statement, “We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy.” it can be concluded that Stanton was a women who was able to reinvent and influence women’s rights all over the world. She was a feminist who encountered many struggles, leading and influencing thousands of women throughout her career. To this day her work is still remembered and recognised by all, as the right to vote becomes increasingly important in today’s world.
Lilley, L. L., Rainforth, S., & Snider, J. (2013). Pharmacology and the Nursing Process (7th Ed.)
During the time when all nurses were undervalued, Gordon followed and observed three registered nurses every day at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, while on their daily routines for almost two years. Each of the nurses have different jobs, which cause them to have different roles. The three nurses Gordon evaluated were: Nancy Rumplik, an oncology nurse; Ellen Kitchen, a home care nurse practitioner; and Jeannie Chaisson, a clinical nurse specialist. All three nurses together have more than 50 years of work experiences in the medical field. Gordon gives us an assortment of cases the nurse worked on. She shows how each nurse has special abilities when it comes to helping their patients.
During this time she edited The Feminist Journal Revolution, helped in the process of overturning discriminatory state laws. They rewrote the Constitution and included women in it
The rights of women have expanded tremendously in the United States over the years. Women 's rights are a lot more flexible. They are allowed to be independent. While these new milestones are a big step forward for woman 's rights in the United States there are still things that need to be corrected. While in other countries women 's rights have not changed at all. There are women in some countries who are denied the right to go to school. They are also not considered equal to men. I will be comparing women 's rights within marriage as well as the justice system in the United States to those of women in other countries in the justice system as well as being married in the Middle East.
Drug administration forms a major part of the clinical nurse’s role. Medicines are prescribed by the doctor and dispensed by the pharmacist but responsibility for correct administration rests with the registered nurse (O'Shea 1999). So as a student nurse this has become my duty and something that I need to practice and become competent in carrying it out. Each registered nurse is accountable for his/her practice. This practice includes preparing, checking and administering medications, updating knowledge of medications, monitoring the effectiveness of treatment, reporting adverse drug reactions and teaching patients about the drugs that they receive (NMC 2008). Accountability also goes for students, if at any point I felt I was not competent enough to dispensing a certain drug it would be my responsibility in speaking up and let the registered nurses know, so that I could shadow them and have the opportunity to learn help me in future practice and administration.
As caretakers of children, family, and community, it was natural that women were the nurses, the caregivers, as human society evolved. Nursing may be the oldest known profession in the world. The Civil War gave enormous boost to the building of hospitals and the development of nursing as a credentialed profession that was led to greater respect for nurses, something that the congresses acknowledge in the year of 1872. Linda Richards was America’s first professional trained nurse. Like most educational institutions during that time, the schools did not admit African Americans, and the informally trained black woman who nursed during the Civil War. The war was served as the beginning of moving the profession from the home to the hospitals and clinics. “There was an explosion of nursing schools in the late nineteenth century.”(www.nwhm.org) Most of the schools were associated with hospital.
As a future registered nurse the need to continue to practice and refresh my skills knowledge regarding drug
In the past, many people believed that women’s exclusive responsibilities were to serve their husband, to be great mothers and to be the perfect wives. Those people considered women to be more appropriate for homemaking rather than to be involved in business or politics. This meant that women were not allowed to have a job, to own property or to enjoy the same major rights as men. The world is changing and so is the role of women in society. In today’s society, women have rights that they never had before and higher opportunities to succeed.
Firstly, nurses are expected to practice evidence-based health care hence a mastery of information about the essential and safe dose of drugs for a patient is very important for a nurse. Consequently, it could be the determinant between the life and the death of the patient. Pharmacology is a discipline which is mandatory for the nurse to excel in to be efficient in discharging his/her duties. Understanding which drug to use, the right dosage, the expected side effects which may occur and the contra-indications of the various drugs are key in the preservation of