HAZRET？ PEYGAMBER D？NEM？NDE SA？LIK BAKIM UYGULAMALARI VE ？LK MüSLüMAN HEM？？RELER/ Healthcare Implementation At The Time Of Prophet Mohammad And First Muslim Nurses

Islam has attached great importance to health and many recommendations and commandments are frequently present in the Quran and the hadiths of His Holiness Prophet Mohammad about the preservation of health and the treatment of the diseases. The hadiths of His Holiness Prophet Mohammad pointing the Quran itself as a remedy and that Allah gives remedies as well as he gives the diseases, encouraged Muslims to look for cures. It is observed during the Islamic Period that women are active in matters of patient care and medication application. . From its beginning, Islam improved the improvement the status of women in the society and gained women legal status as well as social status. It is seen that during war times, women engaged with war along with men; that they bandaged wounds and treated patients; and in return they took share in from war seizes. It is of ultimate importance that a woman who has gained such a status holds an important position in health, care giving and nursing services. As first Muslim nurses who engaged personally with wars and assumed the treatment of injured ones, there were also women who looked after patients and applied medication during peacetime along with these women companion. It is important to mention their activities with regard to set light to the nursing history at that period.