Nursing Traditions and History in Europe

Nursing is the largest occupational group in the health sector. In order to understand nursing and the challenges within the health sector, knowledge of the discipline’s traditions and history, is vital for to critically assess the present and future. This MOOC – Massive Open Online Course – is an important contribution to the understanding of nursing in European history, and covers vital parts of the history of nursing in seven European countries.

Aims of This MOOC

• To gain an understanding of nursing traditions and history as a source to develop perspective and knowledge
• To identify some aspects of importance in European societal development in relevant to the emergence of modern nursing; like the spread and occurrence of diseases, medical development, gender relations and religion
• To give an overview of the historical development of nursing in some countries in Europe
• To highlight some specific spaces or arenas in which clinical nursing practice and nursing knowledge and competence developed: like the medical institutions, district nursing and wartime nursing

For who?

Anyone can register for the course and access the material, which is all in English (lectures are in the speaker’s mother tongue, but subtitled in English).

Content

The MOOC has three modules. You can complete any of the three modules individually, and be awarded a certificate upon completion. Or you can collect all threee module certificates in order to complete the entire course.

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