Annotated Bibliography

"Our Tradition of Compassionate Care." O'Connor Hospital. Web. 08 May 2012.

      <http://www.oconnorhospital.org/about-us/our-tradition-of-compassionate-care/>.

O’Conner Hospital in San Jose opened in 1889 and was the first hospital in Santa Clara County. Judge Myles P. O’Conner and his wife, Amanda, became a wealthy couple during the Gold Rush and Sierra Nevada Mine company and decided to contribute some of their wealth to the community and planed to open a nursing home for elderly in need. As he started the construction, he contacted the Archbishop of San Francisco to discuss opening a sanitarium which in Mr. O’Conner words “sanitarium for the sick, a home for the aged, an asylum for orphans and a school for children”. When the hospital was ready, Judge O’ Conner asked the Daughters of Charity to run the hospital and it is still run by the Daughters of the Charity Health System to serve the poor. Another contribution to Santa Clara County is the Valley Medical Center in San Jose, which is going through two phases of reconstruction approved by Santa Clara County voters in 2008. The first phase is 966 million dollars project to retrofit the hospital and the medical buildings on the main campus and the second phase project is 419 million dollars to construct a 140 bed building. The expansion of the Valley Medical Center is very critical to the area because the number of patient seeking care has increased 45 percent since 2000.
 
 

Evans, Sara M. Born for Liberty. New York: Tree, 1989. Print.

There was no school training for nurses and no sanitizing and antiseptic regulations to perform, nursing was learned on the job and since women always cared at home for their family, they provided care for the sick and wounded. Nursing was primary started from Catholic churches where the priest and the nuns helped needy and sick people in their community and the nuns worked as a nurse during the war, epidemic and natural disaster. There are many heroin women whom dedicated their lives to help their people and country like Clara Barton nursed during the civil war. Since the number on physicians working at the hospital was gradually growing then there was a great demand for trained nurses, so the first training school opened at Bellevue Hospital in New York City of Massachusetts in1873. By 1890, there were thirty five nursing schools which focused to standardize the training and the credentials