History of Pediatric Nursing at the Children´s Hospital of Mexico Federico Gomez
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Nursing, Pediatric, HystoryAbstract
The care of children has a relevant place in Mexico nursing history; in Aztec culture, children were prepared for their future activities in the calmecac, telpuchcalli and culcalli; in the pre-Cortesian period the main figure was the tlamatqui-ticitl (midwife), who looked after pregnant women and their newborn during the first months.
Subsequently, the Hospital de la Inmaculada Concepción (nowadays Hospital de Jesús) was founded, as well as protection centers for indigenous, mestizo and criollo children administered by Augustinian, Franciscan, Dominican and Jesuit monks. Vasco de Quiroga also founded an orphanage, that earned him the title of “protector of the Indian child of America”. Archbishop Francisco de Lorenzana y Butrón founded as well the Casa de Niños Expósitos in Mexico City.
During the Maximilian of Habsburg Empire, empress Carlota managed to establish a “maternity and childhood home”. Eventually, the first child hygiene center was planned and the Casa Cuna de Coyoacán was founded.
On April 30, 1943, the Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez (HIMFG) was officially founded, and its pediatric nursing courses were settled, which changed over time to constitute the specialty in pediatric nursing and give rise to the specialty in neonatology and oncology.
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