A STUDY OF THE KAISERSWERTH DEACONESS INSTITUTE'S NURSE TRAINING SCHOOL IN 1850-1851: PURPOSES AND CURRICULUM.
Contributors: University of Texas at Austin.
Published: 1988
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Education, History of.; Education, Higher.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The study explicates the program of the Kaiserswerth nursing school in 1850-1851 as a forerunner of professional nursing education in England and North America.

Analysis focused on the school's purposes, the goals and functions of the Institute's nurse training program, and the curriculum for nurse training under which these goals and functions were achieved during 1850-1851. To insure comprehensive data analysis, an all inclusive curriculum definition was used.

Documentation extending from 1830-1865 obtained at the Fliedner Archive, Deaconess Institute, Kaiserswerth, Germany, was translated into English by the author. Manuscripts written as policies, reports, standard operational procedures, regulations, institutional records, letters, notes, and published documents were categorized by subjects comparable to structural components of a modern, professional nursing curriculum. Selected documents served as cross-references to establish external and internal reliability.

Findings show that the curriculum was designed to produce a prototype professional nurse who followed contemporary cultural proscriptions for women in Protestant Prussia. The program under Lutheran church sponsorship was dedicated to graduating nurse-deaconesses who formally associated with the Institute met the nursing needs of Prussia. To insure a professional education curriculum content included ethical standards for nurses, medical theory applicable to nursing, and supervised practice in hospital and home nursing.

The Kaiserswerth Institute's curriculum emerges as a precedent to later developments in the history of nursing education.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-06, Section: A, page: 1390.

Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, 1988.

School code: 0227.