My first Magazine Abstract book 9_08_2017 | Page 59

Sanda Franković, BSN Mlinarska Nursing School Minarska 34 HR [email protected] Božica Jurinec, BSN Nursing Bedekovčina Secondary School Bedekovčina HR [email protected] Zvonimir Kralj, student Nursing Zagreb University of Applied Health Sciences Zagreb HR [email protected] HISTORY OF CROATIAN NURSING – EXHIBITION In Croatia, we note no significant efforts in the systematic study of the nursing history. To this day nursing contribution has only been systematically processed for the period between the two World wars. The work of nurses is in historiography relatively poorly treated, despite that it is the key to understanding the social and medical concepts, but also the general public-health and social system of the interwar era. The study of the contribution of religious communities was neglected until 1990s, which has its cause in the reluctance of the former political system to study activities within the Church. Croatian Nurses Association, which was according to available data established in 1929. (1926?) represents the backbone of the nursing professionalization, and is reflected in the activities that were directed towards the publishing of professional journals, efforts to develop education at the university level, establishment of nursing unions, chambers and many other activities. The professionalization of nursing in Croatia follows the trends of developed countries with a certain time-delay due to the specific historical, social and economic conditions. Croatian nursing is just on the threshold of the hundred years since the founding of its first nursing school in Zagreb that opened in January of 1921. In the wake of the aforementioned needs Croatian Nurses Association has founded in 2013. The Association for the History of Nursing. The exhibition will show the collected historical materials that give insight into the course of professionalization of nursing in Croatia. Keywords: Croatian nursing history, Professionalization, Study Congress Topics: Connecting, Sharing and Learning in Nursing 57 |