From Sources A and B, we can learn the following about changes in nursing between the Middle Ages and the early 20th century:
1) In the Middle Ages, nursing was not considered a skilled profession and was often performed by housewives, as shown by the illustration in Source A.
2) By the early 20th century, nursing had become a trained and skilled profession, as the letter in Source B emphasizes that nurses are not inferior servants but trained workers.
3) Over time, the role and perception of nurses shifted from unskilled housework to an intelligent, trained medical profession working under doctors.
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Medicine Inference A
1. Inference A
Study Sources A and B. What can you learn from Sources A and B about changes in nursing
in the period between the Middle Ages and the start of the 20th Century? (4)
Source B
As nurses, you are not inferior servants doing inferior work for inferior
wages, but trained and skilled workers carrying out intelligently the
treatment prescribed by a doctor.
From a letter written by William Rathbone to Liverpool nurses in 1901.
Level 1 Student states information from the source(s) or
1-2 marks makes an inference without supporting it with
evidence from the source(s). One mark for each
relevant item.
Source A: An illustration from
the Middle Ages, showing a
housewife and her maid Level 2 An inference is made and this is supported by precise
preparing medicine for the man 3-4 marks details from the source(s).
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