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Nursing Missionary Elizabeth J. Shepping's Education and Holistic Care for Koreans

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Res Community Public Health Nurs. 2016;27(1):60-71
Publication date (electronic) : 2016 March 31
doi : https://doi.org/10.12799/jkachn.2016.27.1.60
Me Ok Yoon
Department of Nursing, Hanil University · Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Wanju, Korea.
Corresponding author: Yoon, Me Ok. Department of Nursing, Hanil University · Presbyterian Theological Seminary, 726-15 Waemok-ro, Sangkwan-Myun, Wanju 55359, Korea. Tel: +82-63-230-5621, Fax: +82-63-230-5557, yoonhospice@hanmail.net
Received 2015 October 30; Revised 2016 March 17; Accepted 2016 March 23.

Abstract

Purpose

This study was to present education and holistic care of Elizabeth J. Shepping (1880~1934), a nursing missionary and a founder of the Chosun Nursing Association who visited Korea during the Japanese colonial period.

Methods

Primary and secondary sources were collected and analyzed.

Results

This study provides important implications regarding Shepping's holistic nursing as follows: First, she came to Korea after studying nursing and bibliology and being trained for nursing missionary works. Second, she cared for many Koreans, especially Korean women, to protect them from poverty, oppression, ignorance, and illnesses. Third, she continued to spread holistic care in hospitals and other local communities. She trained nurses, developed nursing education, and produced a large number of domestic nursing leaders by establishing women's Bible school. Fourth, she founded the Chosun Nursing Association, serving as its first president for 10 years and applied to join the International Council of Nurses (ICN).

Conclusion

Finally, suggestions were provided for future research, and it will be necessary to study thoroughly nursing achievements by nurses from other countries who practiced their nursing activities in Korea, and such studies are expected to lead to analysis of nursing missionaries' experiences.

Keywords: Nursing; Missionary; Education

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College graduates of nursing school in Severance hospital and from the left, a doctor Hurst, Shields, Shepping, Evison, Campbell a dormitory inspector who sat down with an emblem.