Nursing
...with large amounts of injuries and illnesses. The answer is with nurses and technicians. In the up coming years, the "Baby Boomers" will be of retirement age. There will be a large shortage of doctors and nurses leaving an immense job opportunity for all those in the medical workforce. The nursing field will be a promising possible career because of its reputable history, various types of nursing careers and the training and future prospects in the nursing field. One might consider nurses a foundation stone under the building of health care, without it, the building would not be as strong and would most likely fall. Nursing is an important aspect and career to the medical field that is known of today and the medical field that will exist tomorrow.
Nursing has been around quite a bit longer than people might think. The first nursing school ever created was in India about 250 B.C. and only men could enroll because it was thought that only men were "pure" enough. During the Byzantine Empire, or the Middle Ages, nursing was a separate profession and it was common for a man to be paid for nursing care. In 300 A.D., the Parabolani created a hospital to care for those who were affected by the Black Plague (Wilson). The Parabolani was a brotherhood who in the Early Church voluntarily undertook the care of the sick and the burial of the dead. It has been asserted, though without sufficient proof, that the brotherhood was first organized during the great plague in Alexandria in the episcopate of Dionysius the Great, second half of third century. In 1538 a man named John Ciudad founded the order of the brothers of St. John of God or the Brothers of Mercy. He opened a hospital in Grenada, which is a little island in the Caribbean, and asked a group of friends to assist in providing care to the homeless, mentally ill, abandoned children, derelicts, and the...
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