Image of nursing - answer✔-What we do
-How we look
-What we say
-How we say it
causes of nursing shortage - answer✔Internal Causes:
-Salary Issues
-Long hours Issues
-Increased responsibility for unlicensed workers
-Significant responsibility with little authority
External Causes:
-Changes in demand for nursing services
-Increase in age of population
-Greater acuity(degree of illness) of hospitalized individuals
-Public perceptions of nursing as a profession
How long should you study? - answer✔Study 50 minutes; take a 10 minute break
What does mandatory on call mean? - answer✔work 36 hours plus sign up two times a month to
work extra than regular shifts
Two Solutions for Shortage of RNs - answer✔Increase supply of nurses
Import from English speaking countries
Travel nursing
Create less trained workers to supplement nursing workforce
Shorter training and education
Florence Nightingale - answer✔-founder of modern nursing
-a reformer of hospital sanitation methods
-reduced morality rate from <40% to <2%
-Supervised a team of 38 nurses
Nightingale Schools - answer✔-Based around practice with instructions focused on hygiene and
task competence
-The model for nursing education through out Europe
Work in Public Policy - answer✔- Influenced policies for military hospitals
-Pubic sanitation through out England
Mary Seacole - answer✔-Jamaican nurse who was refused the right to work with Nightingale
-Expert on cholera- managed the care of the soldiers of Crimea , funded herself
-was known as unladylike
Clara Barton - answer✔-Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross
-Angle of Battlefield
-Worked as a copyist at the U.S. Patent office, former teacher
-Began an independent campaign to provide items to the soldiers
Dorothea Dix - answer✔-Rights activist on behalf of mentally ill patients created first wave of
US mental asylums
-Superintendent of Union Army
-Made a criteria for people in order to volunteer at hospitals
Louisa May Alcott - answer✔-wrote Little Women
-Served as a nurse and wrote about her experience
Mary Ann Bickerdyke - answer✔-Organized diet kitchens, laundries, and an ambulance service,
and supervised nursing staff during the Civil War
-lay person
first training school for nurses - answer✔-Located in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
and Boston
- 1 building instead of 2
-work 3 years, get free room and board
-Looked like doctor offices
-No men, ONLY women
Mary Mahoney - answer✔-First professionally trained African American nurse
- First African American Nurse
- Graduated from the New England hospital for women and children
National League for Nursing (NLN) - answer✔- Was made by 3 nurses who met at Chicago's
World Fair
American Nurses Association(ANA) - answer✔-Professional organization that represents all
registered nurses.
-Over nurses code of ethics
Lillian Wald - answer✔-Founded the Henry Street Settlement and Visiting Nurse Service which
provided nursing and social services and organized educational and cultural activities.
-She is considered the founder of public health nursing
Margaret Sanger - answer✔-1921 - founded American Birth Control League; which became
Planned Parenthood in the 1940s.
-Advocated birth control awareness.
-immigrant women and lack of knowledge
soical justice - answer✔- Congress establishes the Army Nurse Corps
-The Navy Nurse corpses established
Mary Breckenridge (1920s) - answer✔-Frontier Nursing Service
-Nurse & Midwife
-Started Prenatal
-First organized midwifery program in U.S.
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