Hypurgia

Hypurgia , the sum of the healing factors , is a term coined by the doctor and first German university professor for nursing, Martin Mendelsohn (1860–1930), with which he described the scientific-therapeutic sub-area within nursing at the end of the 19th century. He divided the nursing into three sub-areas, the sick care, the sick maintenance and the hypurgia. In his opinion, hypurgia was the sole responsibility of the doctor. In hypurgia, the scientific dimension of nursing was expanded and in some cases approaches were pursued that come close to a modern view of nursing, for example turning to being sick instead of being sick , creating an environment that promotes healing and emphasizing the independent task of nursing within the overall concept Treatment of the sick.

literature

Horst-Peter Wolff: Biographical lexicon for nursing history: WHO was WHO in Nursing History. Elsevier, Urban & Fischer Verlag, 1997, pages 129-130, ISBN 3861266288