BSNC 1020 MODULE 1-5 FINAL| Complete Questions with Verified Correct Answers Graded A+
Professionalism
Behaviours, skills, and attributes required or expected of members of a profession.
- Conduct, aims or qualities that characterize or make up a profession or professional.
-Requires specialize...
Behaviours, skills, and attributes required or expected of members of a profession.
- Conduct, aims or qualities that characterize or make up a profession or professional.
-Requires specialized knowledge, accountability, autonomy, inquiry, collegiality, collaboration,
innovation & ethics and values
How do nurses display professionalism?
Provide quality care to patients thru:
- Commitment to profession led regulation
- Professional ethics
- Personal health & fitness to practice
- Legal & ethical dimensions to nursing
What year did nursing start in Canada?
1639 - Hotel Dieu Quebec
Florence Nightingale
- founder of modern nursing and a reformer of hospital sanitation methods
What did Florence Nightingale do?
- Insisted on better hygiene in field hospitals and founded the first school of nursing
- Crimean war: reduced mortality from 42-2.2%.Hand-washing/nature working on patient's body was
her mainstay. First health statistician (collected & analyzed health data).
- improved standards of nursing care in the mid-nineteenth century
- known for reducing mortality during the Crimean war through improved sanitation measures
- triggered a shift in public attitudes towards the acceptability of women doing nursing outside of the
home
Florence Nightingale and Crimean War
- She went to the war and helped turn the mortality rate around.
1854, she and 38 nurses entered the battlefield near Scutari, Turkey and cared for the sick and injured.
They had few supplies and little outside help. She insisted on establishing sanitary conditions and
providing quality nursing care. This immediately reduced the mortality rate. Her dedicated service both
during the day and night when she and her nurses made rounds carrying oil lamps created a public
image if the lady with the lamp.
Nightingale Fund
- established by the English government to promote nurse's training in England
- used to establish the first Nightingale school of Nursing, at St Thomas' Hospital in London
,Nightingale System of Education (Nightingale Model)
- 1860: Nightingale created a financially independent school of nursing associated with St. Thomas'
Hospital in London, England.
- Became standard of nursing education in England and worldwide for next century.
-This was a hospital-based model overseen by a trained superintendent, trained staff members acting as
instructors, and a cadre of nursing students who provided the bulk of the care
What was the results of Nightingale's success in the public attitudes?
- This triggered a remarkable shift in public attitudes toward the acceptability of women during nursing
work outside the home. Nursing became an instrument of women's emancipation against the prevailing
middle-class restrictions on women working outside the home.
What advocate role did Nightingale take on?
- the health of people
- health care reform
- education preparation for nursing
- She became an advocate for the health of people, healthcare reform, and educational preparation for
nursing through voluminous writings and lobbying of members of parliament to act on these views.
These views were from health data that she collected and analyzed.
-She responded viscerally to situations that frustrated and angered her including the lack of active role
for women in Victorian society and the lack of social action by religious men and women in general.
Nightingale Model of Nursing Education
- Hospital based.
- Overseen by trained superintendent.
- Trained staff members who also acted as instructors.
- Many student nurses who performed bulk of nursing care.
- Nightingale model missing from new nursing schools because they had no financing
- Nursing students had to provide care for hospitals in return for education & living expenses
- Result: Hospitals able to provide nursing care for minimal cost
Sister of Charity of Montreal
-1738
-Grey Nuns
- Formed by Marguerite D'Youville
-Basically the birth of home nursing
-Pledged their lives to helping the poor and the sick (home visits)
-Establish hospitals across Canada, making separate wings and establish a health system.
- cared for both the poor and the wealthy
What were the financial advantages of a hospital with a school of nursing?
, This gave the institutions a competitive edge relative to others to which paying patients may turn for
care. A training school provided security against incurring a financial loss if the number of paying
patients dropped at any point. Training schools attached to a hospital also ensured a higher standard of
care than one without a school.
Where was the first hospital diploma school in Canada?
-First Hospital Diploma School
This was at the St. Catherines Training School that opened in 1874 at the St. Catharines General and
Marine Hospital.
What were the admissions for the first diploma school for nurses and what did they teach?
-Plain English education, good character and Christian motives.
-Learned about sanitary, science, physiology, anatomy, and hygiene.
-Taught to observe the patient for changes in temperature, skin condition, pulse, respirations, and
functions of orgrans
University of British Columbia
- first Canadian undergraduate nursing degree program
- non-integrated (university did not control learning that took place in hospitals)
- apprenticeship-style training
First Canadian Undergraduate Nursing Degree
1919: UBC
Alberta Task Force on Nursing Education
- 1975
- recommended that all new graduates be prepared at the baccalaureate level before entering
professional practice
-First entry to practice
Baccalaureate as entry-to-practice (BETP)
- 1982
- CNA approved a resolution to have it by the year 2000
- said that all new graduates in nursing must be qualified at the baccalaureate level when they enter the
professional practice of nursing
- implemented throughout Canada from 2000-2010
1881-1894
- 1881: The school for nurses at the Toronto General Hospital was established
- 1884: Mary Agnes Snively was appointed superintendent of the school for nurses at the Toronto
General Hospital
- 1896: Mary Agnes Snively introduced a 3 year course at Toronto General Hospital with 84 hours of
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