Nursing Cares given to the sufferers from syphilis in the Hospital del Espíritu Santo of Sevilla (Spain) around the year 1600. Books and documents. / Los cuidados enfermeros proporcionados a los enfermos de sífilis en el Hospital del Espíritu Santo...
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ABSTRACT: This study seeks to determine the level of training that nurses working in the most important Spanish hospitals reached towards the year 1600 in the treatments applied to patients with STDs (sexually transmitted diseases), particularly syphilis.
The nurses knew and already applied around 1600 a set of complex techniques to care for and heal the sick of syphilis and other STDs. All this demonstrates an increase in the demands of the training of Spanish nurses, who worked under ethical guidelines, and we could assume the beginnings of the professionalization of nursing in such an early age.
In 16th century Spain, nurses began to raise their educational level to provide care that could respond to the new knowledge that medicine was discovering as a result of the general scientific development of the time, and that should be applied in the new hospitals that were erected in the main Spanish cities.
RESUMEN: El presente estudio tiene como objetivo principal conocer el nivel de preparación de los enfermeros que trabajaron en algunos de los más importantes hospitales españoles en torno al año 1600 en el tratamiento de las enfermedades de transmisión sexual, especialmente la sífilis. Para su tratamiento los enfermeros conocían y aplicaban ya en torno al año 1600 un conjunto de técnicas complejas y su trabajo se movía bajo unas directrices éticas. Ello podría ser indicador de los inicios de la profesionalización de la Enfermería en España, mucho antes de lo que se viene considerando en otros países, que se sitúa este proceso en el siglo XIX.
Los enfermeros comenzaron ya en este período a elevar su nivel de formación para proporcionar unos cuidados que respondieran a los avances médicos del momento y se puedieran aplicar, al menos en los hospitales españoles erigidos en las grandes ciudades, como Sevilla y Madrid.
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Accepted 2018-09-21
Published 2018-09-21
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