Nursing Traditions and History in Europe
The MOOC consists of the three modules you can see below. Module 1 and 2 is open for everybody while module 3 is for students at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
INTRODUCTION
- Nursing in Europe today
- Myth busters: What is nursing?
- Aims of the MOOC
- A guide to the MOOC and presenting a timelime
Nurses in a parade, Tromsø, Norway May 17th 1945.
MODUL I: NURSING TRADITIONS (3 ECT)
- Part 1: Diseases and Society
- Historical context
- Epidemics (from Cholera to Tuberculosis)
- The development of medicine
- Emergence of European Health Care
Part 2: Development of three Nursing Traditions in Europa
- The Catholic Tradition
- The Deaconess Tradition
- The Nightingale Tradition
Part 3: Gender and religion
- Nursing and Gender
- The calling
- The relation between (female) nurses and (male) physicians
MODUL 2: Nursing Practises (4 ECT)
Introduction:
Part 1: Nurse training in selected countries in Europa
England, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Holland, Denmark and Norway
The lectures will put focus upon:
- The society in which the trained nurses emerged
- The first school of nursing and organization of the education and training
- The nurse pupils
- Time of public registration
- Differences and similarities within and between the selected countries
Part 2: Spaces of nursing practice
This part focuses on the venues for nursing practice and the emergency and changes which varies from country to country. Three selected fields of nursing are:
- District Nursing
- Medical development and medical Hospitals
- Psychiatric Hospitals and mental health care outside institutions
Part 3: Wartime nursing
War often creating new demands. This section focus is on the impact of wars on nursing.
- World War 1 (1914-1918)
- World War 2 (1939-1945)
- Korean War (1950-1953)
Closing remarks
Nursing yesterday, today and tomorrow – in Europe and globally
MODUL 3: ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEWS (3 ECT)
Module 3 is only for students at UiT The Arctic University of Norway)