SAMPLE EXAM REVISION PRACTICE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS (2024 UPDATE)
Lillian Wald - ANSWER- -founded the Henry Street Settlement in 1893 to help improve health
conditions related to the influx of immigrants who came seeking work in the factories of the
Northeast (inner city tenements spread infectious diseases) and it still functions today to provide a
variety of health services
-through the settlement, she began the first formalized pubic health nursing practice
-one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
OVERALL: relentless in her goal to improve the health of the immigrants who were seeking better
lives in America
Margaret Sanger - ANSWER- -became the face of the battle for safe contraception and family
planning for women
-goal to preserve reproductive and contraceptive rights for women
Jesse Sleet Scales and Elizabeth Tyler - ANSWER- -Jesse hired as a "Negro" district nurse to
work in the African- American community to persuade people to accept treatment
-Jesse was among the first to bring community health nursing principles to the slums of NYC
-Jesse recommended Elizabeth to work with African-American patients at the Henry Street
Settlement
, -both established the Stillman House, a branch of the Henry Street Settlement serving "colored
people" which signified activism, expansion, and growth
-main focus was prevention and management of illnesses
Mary Breckenridge - ANSWER- -founder of the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) in 1925
-a nurse and midwife who established the Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies (later
known as FNS)
-provided the first organized midwifery program in the US
-worked in rural areas
-FNS nurses delivered babies, provided prenatal and postnatal care, educated mothers, and their
families about nutrition and hygiene, and cared for the sick
-demonstrated nurses could play a significant role in providing primary rural health care
Affordable Care Act - ANSWER- -signed into law by president Barack Obama in March 2010
-known as ACA or "Health Care Reform"
1) banned lifetime limits on insurance coverage by insurers, so that patients with extreme medical
costs can be assured of continuing benefits over the course of their illness and lifetime.
2)prevents insurance companies from denying coverage to children and teens younger than age 19
because of a preexisting condition.
3) young adults up to age 26 are now allowed to remain covered on their parents' insurance plan
unless they are offered insurance coverage at work.
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