NU411--Exam 1 Study Guide Solutions
theory of greater good - Ans:-practice in public health nursing that pertains to doing the most good
for the highest number of individuals in a population
John Snow - Ans:-father of epidemiology; studied the London Cholera epidemic and determined its
source t...
Nightingale - Ans:✔✔-created modern nursing profession; lead war nurses in 1854, emphasized infection
prevention, opened nursing school in Liverpool
Lemeul Shattuck - Ans:✔✔-In 1850, published the first report on sanitation and public health problems.
Recommended the exchange of health information, sanitary inspections, research on tuberculosis, and
the teaching of sanitation and prevention in medical schools. Founding health departments.
Dorothea Dix - Ans:✔✔-Rights activist on behalf of mentally ill patients - created first wave of US mental
asylums
Clara Barton - Ans:✔✔-Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross
Lilian Wald - Ans:✔✔-founder of public health nursing; established the Henry Street Settlement in
Manhattan, NY for poor and ill citizens
Mary Breckinridge - Ans:✔✔-Established the Frontier Nursing Service; focused on women and children in
rural areas; created the Frontier Graduate School of Midwifery
increased nurse training and education, recognition of nurse's autonomy, preventative care - Ans:✔✔-
major outcomes for public health nurses as a result of historical figures
Healthy People 2020 - Ans:✔✔-A set of disease prevention and health promotion objectives for
Americans to meet during the second decade of the new millennium
decentralized, laissez faire, and resources - Ans:✔✔-basic features of the U.S. healthcare system
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