NUR 410 Midterm Exam Questions And Accurate Answers
women - Answer Who were employed by wealthy families to tend to their sick members
and to attend births?
midwives - Answer Shiphrah and Puah were _____________ who spared the infant Moses.
Aesclepius - Answer Name the god of medicine who devised the caduceus.
Hippocrates - Answer Name who is referred to as the father of medicine?
sex - Answer In early civilization Greece, temples to honor Aesclepius were designated
to care for the sick, the ____________________ of the caregivers is unclear.
male - Answer In early civilization India, public "hospitals" were staffed by
____________________ nurses.
men - Answer In early civilization Rome, military orders made up exclusively of
____________________ were developed to care for the injured.
catholic church - Answer During the middle ages in the ____________________, nuns and
monks cared for the sick.
wealthy - Answer In the middle ages, wives of emperors and other ____________________
women could become nurses: mostly midwifes; seen as charitable works.
common - Answer 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.
,undesirable - Answer 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.
religious - Answer ____________________ nursing orders were reinstituted out of deep
concern about social welfare during the renaissance and the reformation period.
May - Answer Nurses week is in ____________________ because this is when Florence
Nightingale's birthday is.
England - Answer Florence Nightingale established the first nursing school in
____________________.
asepsis, infection control - Answer Nightingale introduced principles such as
____________________ and ____________________, along with a system for transcribing
physician's orders and a system to maintain patient records.
statistics - Answer Nightingale kept ____________________ that documented a decrease in
the death rate of soldiers as a result of health care reforms that emphasized sanitary
conditions.
nursing research - Answer Nightingale has been honored for her contribution to
____________________.
social activism - Answer Nightingale showed the power of ____________________ to bring
about health care reform.
married - Answer Nurses in Florence Nightingale's school of nursing could not be
____________________.
Mary Seacole - Answer Who, because she was a black woman, was rejected in her
, request to join Nightingale's nursing contingent so she used her own funds to establish
a lodging house where she cared for ill and injured soldiers during the Crimean War?
Dorthea Dix - Who was appointed to organize military hospitals, supply trained nurses,
and distribute supplies; although this position was given her no official status nor any
salary is to be paid?
2,000 - How many volunteer nurses worked in the civil war?
Harriet Tubman - Who cared for wounded soldiers and running an "underground
railroad" to lead slaves to freedom?
Sojourner Truth - Answer Who was an outspoken abolitionist, as well as for her nursing
work, supported clean and sanitary conditions so patients could heal?
Susie King Taylor - Answer Although hired in laundry ____________________ worked full
time as a nurse on the battlefront with no pay or pension; not considered an official
Union Army Nurse.
Clara Barton - Answer Who was a volunteer nurse who operated a war relief program;
credited with founding the American Red Cross in 1882?
Louisa May Alcott - Answer What was a volunteer nurse that authored detailed accounts
of her experience as a volunteer nurse during the war for a newspaper publication
entitled Hospital Sketches?
Linda Richard - Answer Who was the first officially trained nurse in the US that
graduated in 1873 in Boston?
black - Answer In 1886, the first school of nursing for ____________________ women was
established at the Atlanta Baptist Seminary, now known as Spelman college.
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