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NUR 2820 MIDTERM REVIEW QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
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NUR 2820 MIDTERM REVIEW QUESTIONSAND CORRECT ANSWERS
What 4 things did Florence Nightingale do? - correct answers✔✔- set up hospitals in
Turkey
- collected data on morbidity and mortality
- wrote Notes on Nursing
- established first nursing school
What did Florence Nightingale write? - correct answers✔✔Notes on Nursing
Who is Mary Seacole and what did she do? - correct answers✔✔Black nurse and
business woman; expert on cholera
Were nurses available at start of Civil War? - correct answers✔✔No
Who were the nurses at the start of the civil war? - correct answers✔✔Catholic orders
What did the Civil War mark for nursing? - correct answers✔✔Call to Duty of Nurses
and Leaders
Who was Dorthea Dix and what did she do? - correct answers✔✔Superintendent of
nurses union army; taught employable nurses for postwar
Who was Susie King Taylor and what did she do? - correct answers✔✔Former slave;
taught soldiers to read and write
Describe how the RN title worked at first (back in early 1900s) - correct
answers✔✔Nurses did not have to be registered to practice but couldn't have RN on
the name unless registered by exam. Exam wasn't standardized or mandatory until
1950s
What was the first state to have mandatory RN licensure? - correct answers✔✔New
York in 1947
What effect did World War 1 and the influenza pandemic have on nursing? - correct
answers✔✔National committee on nursing created
, What 3 things did the national committee of nursing do? - correct answers✔✔- Supplied
nurses
- Army School of Nursing
- Vassar Training camp for Nurses
What organization was created in WW1 times? - correct answers✔✔Red Cross
What did the early Red Cross do? - correct answers✔✔widespread public education in
home care and hygiene
What happened to nurses in the Great Depression? - correct answers✔✔Could no
longer work as private duty nurses making nurses unemployed or work in hospitals for
low pay
What effect did the Social Security Act of 1935 have on nursing? - correct
answers✔✔enhanced public health nursing and strengthened public health services;
provided care to disabled children and blind
What happened to nursing in WW2? - correct answers✔✔Need for nurses and
congress enacted support
What program was created in WW2 and what did it do for nursing? - correct
answers✔✔Cadet Nurse Corps
How many nurses came through the nurse corps in WW2? - correct
answers✔✔124,000
What happened to nursing in the early 1960s? - correct answers✔✔Nurses specialized
What happened to nursing after the Social Security amendment in 1965? - correct
answers✔✔Medicare and Medicaid was created with hospitals becoming the preferred
setting
What happened to nursing the Vietnam War? - correct answers✔✔Mobile hospitals in
Jungles were created, nurses worked without supervision and performed advanced
procedures, nurses ended up with lack of support and PTSD
What effect did HIV have on nursing? - correct answers✔✔- Universal precautions
created
- Changes in equipment use
What effect did the 80s and 90s have on nursing? - correct answers✔✔Medical
advances including life support created advanced directives
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