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NUR 410 Midterm Questions with Correct AnswersWho were hired by privileged families to care for the sick and to assist
with childbirth? Correct Answer-women
Shiphrah and Puah were ____________________ who saved the baby
Moses. Correct Answer-midwives
Who is the god of medicine that created the caduceus? Correct Answer-
Aesclepius
Who is considered the father of medicine? Correct Answer-Hippocrates
In early civilization Greece, temples to honor Aesclepius were
designated to care for the sick, the ____________________ of the
caregivers is unclear. Correct Answer-gender
In early civilization India, public "hospitals" were staffed by
____________________ nurses. Correct Answer-male
In early civilization Rome, military orders made up exclusively of
____________________ were developed to care for the injured. Correct
Answer-men
During the middle ages in the ____________________, nuns and monks
cared for the sick. Correct Answer-catholic church
,In the middle ages, wives of emperors and other
____________________ women could become nurses: mostly
midwifes; seen as charitable works. Correct Answer-wealthy
In the Renaissance and the Reformation Period (Dark Age of Nursing),
care of the sick was regulated to ____________________ women who
were perceived as no better than prisoners, thieves, alcoholics, and
prostitutes. Correct Answer-common
In the Renaissance and the Reformation Period (Dark Age of Nursing),
nursing is considered an ____________________ job with poor pay,
long hours, and strenuous work that was considered menial. Correct
Answer-undesirable
____________________ nursing orders were re-established out of great
concern for social welfare during the renaissance and the reformation
period. Correct Answer-religious
Nurses week is in ____________________ because this is when
Florence Nightingale's birthday is. Correct Answer-May
Florence Nightingale founded the first nursing school in
____________________. Correct Answer-England
Nightingale introduced principles such as ____________________ and
____________________, along with a system for transcribing
, physician's orders and a system to maintain patient records. Correct
Answer-asepsis, infection control
Nightingale kept ____________________ that documented a decrease in
the death rate of soldiers as a result of health care reforms that
emphasized sanitary conditions. Correct Answer-statistics
Nightingale has been honored for her contribution to
____________________. Correct Answer-nursing research
Nightingale demonstrated the value of ____________________ to affect
health care reform. Correct Answer-political activism
Nurses in Florence Nightingale's nursing school could not be
____________________. Correct Answer-married
Who was denied the opportunity to join Nightingale's nursing brigade
because she was black, so she opened a lodging house with her own
money to care for sick and wounded soldiers in the Crimean War?
Correct Answer-Mary Seacole
Who was appointed to organize military hospitals, provide trained
nurses, and disperse supplies; she received no official status and no
salary for this position? Correct Answer-Dorthea Dix
How many volunteer nurses served in the civil war? Correct Answer-
2,000
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