| Term | Definition |
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| American Assembly for Men in Nursing (AAMN) | Association intended to provide a forum for nurses to discuss & influence factors that affect men as nurses: encourages men of all ages to become nurses, supports men in nursing, and advocates for research, education, and the dissemination of information about men's health issues |
| Army School of Nursing | American military school of nursing established during World War 1 |
| Black Death | An epidemic thought to be the bubonic plague that swept across Asia, Africa, and Europe in the 1300's |
| Bolton Act | Established the US Cadet Nurse Corps; also called the Nurse Training Act of 1943 |
| Comstock Act of 1873 | Law forbidding both the dissemination of birth control information and the distribution of birth control devices |
| Dark Ages of Nursing | The Reformation; so called because trained Protestant nurses left the profession, leaving nursing to many without training, including thieves and prostitutes sentenced to the task |
| deaconess | Woman chosen by church leadership to care for the poor and the sick in her own congregation and community |
| Ebers papyrus | The oldest preserved medical document in the world; contains prescriptions written in dieratic script for over seven hundred remedies |
| Frontier Nursing Service | Private charitable organization founded in the rural Appalachian Mountain region of eastern Kentuchy in 1925; assisted with deliveries for women of the region |
| The Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing (FSMFN) | A still-extant school offering education for the development of nurse-midwives, family nurse practitioners, and women's health care nurse practitioners |
| Geneva Convention Treaty | Among other things, established military hospitals as safe havens where physicians and nurses could care for the wounded of any nation; led to the formalization of the International Red Cross. (Signed in 1864 by representatives of 12 nations) |
| geroncomion | Translates to "home for the aged" (Established by Helena , mother of Constantine the Great) |
| Gulf War syndrome | Mysterious complex of symptoms experienced by beterans of the Persian Gulf War, perhaps due to chemical weapons |
| Hammurabi's Code | Early form of managed health care that included uniform fees for service, objective outcome measurement stancdards, consumer and patient rights, and legal regulation of physicians |
| Health Amendments Act | 1956 law that provided funds for nurses to pursue advanced preparation for administrative, supervisory, and teaching positions; expanded practical, or vacational, nurse programs; and mandated several influential postwar nursing studies |
| Henry Street Settlement | Early American nurse service staffed by both nurses and social workers. (Due to Lillian Wald & Mary Brewster) |
| Hippocratic oath | Ancient oath still taken by graduates of medical school; the source of the phrase "do no harm" |
| Hotels-dieu | Translates to "God's houses," an early kind of hospital maintained by monks |
| iatria | Greek precursors to modern outpt clinics |
| International Red Cross | A movement to establish humanitarian association that used volunteer help in every country to aid in war relief efforts (established due to vision of Jean Henri Dunant) (Funded by private citizens) |
| Kaiserwerth Deaconess Institute | Hospital and medical school with a 3 year course of study for Protestant deaconesses, including training in nursing, pharmacy, and teaching; considered the most segnificant early Protestant nursing organization |
| monasticism | A movement wherein a man or a woman chooses to remain single, widowed, or divorced, devoting themselves to God; evantally incorporated educating children and caring for the poor and the sick |
| Mosaic Law | Several Old Testament books focusing on communicable-disease management through isolation procedures, ceremonial rituals, and regulations governing preparing, eating, and abstention from certain foods |
| National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN) | Association influenced in its establishment by Mary Eliza Mahoney, the 1st black nurse to graduate from a school of nursing in the United States |
| National Organization for Public Health Nursing (NOPHNP) | Organization once responsible for developing standards for public health nursing and setting up public health courses for nurses in baccalaureate schools of nursing (Because of Wald) |
| New England Hospital for Woman and Children | Founded the first school of nursing in America (Boston, MA) |
| Nightingale Training School for Nurses | An independent, secular school of nursing unaffiliated with any religious body; est in London 1860 |
| Nosocomium | Translates to "place for the sick;" a kind of hospital |
| Nurses Training Act of 1964 | Vietnam-era bill that funded nursing programs that were either accredited by the Natioal League for Nursing (NLN) or expected to be accredited in the near future. |
| nursing | A derivative of the Latin word "nutrire", meaning "to nourish" |
| parish nurse movement | Movement based on the early church deaconess movement; uses nurses who are hired by churches or who volunteer coordinate care for those in the congregation, especially the frail elderly. |
| Planned Parenthood Federation | Group of clinics founded by Margaret Sanger that focus on family planning |
| unification model | Stesses the need for clinically prepared faculty and for clinical competence among students pursuing advanced degrees |
| US Army Nurse Corps | Established by Dorothea Lynde Dix to treat Union troops during the Civil War |
| US Cadet Nurse Corps | Created under the Bolton Act to address nursing shortages during World War II |
| wet nurse | Women hired to suckle other women's infants (Addressed in Hammurabi's Code) |
| xenodocheion | Inn for strangers and travelers |
| xenodochia | Translates to "house for strangers" eventually used by Hebrews in caring for outsiders. (precursor to modern inn or hospital) |
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