BSNC 1020 - Module 1 Nursing Identity
and the History of Nursing Exam
What does professionalism require? - Answer -- specialized knowledge
- accountability
- autonomy
- inquiry
- collegiality
- collaboration
- innovation
- ethics & values
How do nurses display professionalism? - Answer -Provide quality care to patients
through:
- commitment to profession led registration
- professional ethics
- personal health and fitness to practice
- legal and ethical dimensions to nursing
What year did nursing start in Canada? - Answer -1639 - Hotel Dieu Quebec
Who is Florence Nightingale? - Answer -Founder of modern nursing and a reformer of
hospital sanitation methods.
What did Florence Nightingale do? - Answer -- insisted on better hygiene in hospital
settings
- founded the first nursing school
- improved standards of nursing care in the mid-nineteenth century
- known for reducing mortality rate in the Crimean war through hand-hygiene
Florence Nightingale and the Crimean War - Answer -- reduced mortality rate from 42%
- 2.2%
- hand-washing/nature working on patients body was her mainstay
- first health statistician (collected and analyzed health data)
Florence Nightingale/women - Answer -Triggered a shift in public attitudes towards the
acceptability of women doing nursing outside of the home
The lady and the lamp - Answer -In the Crimean war, her nurses would do night rounds
holding oil lamps
- created the public image
, The Nightingale fund - Answer -Established by the English government to promote
nurses training in England.
- used to establish the first Nightingale school of nursing at St Thomas' hospital in
London
Nightingale system of education (Nightingale model) - Answer -1860: Nightingale
created a financially independant school of nursing associated with the St. Thomas'
Hospital in London
- became the standard of nursing education in England and worldwide for the next
century
Who was the Nightingale hospital-based model overseen by? - Answer -overseen by:
- trained superintendent
- trained staff members acting as instructors
- a team of nursing students who provided the bulk of the care
What was the result of Nightingales success in public attitudes? - Answer -- Triggered a
remarkable shift in public attitudes toward the acceptability of women doing nursing
work outside of the home
- nursing became an instrument of women's freedom against the prevailing middle-class
restrictions on women working outside the home
What advocate role did Nightingale take on? - Answer -- health of the people
- healthcare reform
- education preparation for nursing
How did Nightingale advocate? - Answer -- her views were backed up by health data
she collected and analyzed
- through voluminous writings and lobbying of members of parliament
What angered Nightingale? - Answer -- the lack of active role for women in victorian
society
- the lack of social action by religious men and women in general
Nightingale model of nursing education - Answer -- hospital based
- overseen by trained superintendent
- trained staff members also acted as instructors
- many students performed bulk of nursing care
- nursing students had to provide nursing care in hospitals in return for education and
living expenses
What was the result of the Nightingale model of nursing education - Answer -Hospitals
were able to train nurses, while providing nursing care for minimal cost
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