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NSG-310 Exam 1 Questions withComplete Answers
Florence Nightingale - Answer--established the first nursing philosophy based on health
maintenance and restoration
-developed the first organized program for training nurses
-first practicing nurse epidemiologist
-saw nursing as in charge of someone else's health
-lady with the lamp
-improved sanitation (linked poor sanitation with cholera and dysentery; reduced
mortality rates from 42.7% to 2.2% in 6 months)
First organized program for training nurses - Answer-The Nightingale Training School
for Nurses at St. Thomas Hospital in London
American Civil War (1861-1865) - Answer--volunteer women demonstrated
effectiveness of skilled nursing on improved outcomes
-emergence of nurse training schools based on Nightingale apprenticeship model
Nightingale's Apprenticeship Model of Nursing - Answer--provided physicians and
hospitals with an inexpensive and skilled workforce
-provided working-class women with the opportunity for employment outside the home
1873: Establishment of the First Three Training Schools for Nurses in US - Answer--
pupil nurses under direction of nursing superintendent
-required 2-3 years of intense hospital work
-upon program completion, they could be employed as graduate private duty nurses
-women who were trained nurses saw social status elevated as a result of training
Nurse Training Program - Answer--long days of patient service
-training classes were held at end of long days on wards
-nursing duties included patient care, cleaning wards and operating rooms, meal
preparation, sterilization of instruments, and assisting physicians
1894: Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses of the US and Canada
- Answer--focus was to advance and standardize training of nurses
-goal was to promote fellowship and establish/maintain universal standard of training
What was society of superintendents of training school for nurses of the US and
Canada renamed? - Answer-National League for Nursing Educators (NLNE)
Early 1900's - Answer--US Bureau of Census: 109,000 untrained nurses and midwives
compete with 12,000 graduate nurses
, -Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the US and Canada focused on legal recognition of
trained nurses (to protect the public: legal registration for trained nurses)
1896: Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the US and Canada - Answer--purpose to
achieve legal recognition for trained nurses to counter the belief that "an ignorant
woman who is not fit for anything else is good enough for a nurse"
What was the Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the US and Canada renamed in 1912? -
Answer-American Nurses Association (ANA)
Enactment of Nurse Licensure - Answer--a registered nurse had attended an
acceptable nursing program and passed a board evaluation examination
-1923: all states enacted nurse registration laws
Nursing Practice in Early 20th Century America - Answer--hospitals (student nurses and
head nurse)
-private duty nurses (registry, autonomous practice, contagious disease, childbirth,
fractures, strokes, mental illness)
Private Duty Nurses - Answer--graduated nurses employed by the middle/upper class
households
-seasonal work: busy winters and slow summers
-1920 surplus of nurses
-1928 burgess report: a study of the plight of the graduated nurse
Opinions of Nursing Change - Answer--before, many physicians and hospital
administrators did not value the presence of graduate nurses in their hospitals
-many private duty nurses increased their clinical medical knowledge and skills on their
own
-physicians and families requested these nurses
-hospitals began to add registered nurses to the staff in the late 1930s
Progressivism and Public Health Nursing - Answer--social change: urbanization,
industrialization, influx of European immigrants (overcrowding, filthy streets, and poor
working condition)
-Lillian Wald: established role for nursing in the community because the needs of NY
residents were limitless
What did Lillian Wald and Mary Brewster establish? - Answer-Henry Street Settlement
House and Henry Street Visiting Nurse Services
Lillian Wald and Visiting Nurses - Answer--expansion to: school nursing, industrial
nursing, TB nursing, and infant welfare nursing
-worked with Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and organized home visits to the
company's customers who were ill
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