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Florence Nightingale - correct answers 1. Purchased medical supplies, food, linen, and hospital equipment, using her
own money and that of the Times Relief fund for the Barracks Hospital at Scutari during the Crimean War
-initiated social services, reading classes, and coffeehouses where soldiers could enjoy music and recreation
2. spent up to 20 hours each day caring for wounds, comforting soldiers, assisting in surgery, directing staff, and keeping
records
-introduced principles of infection control, a system for transcribing physicians' orders, and a procedure to maintain pt
records
3. credited with using public health principles and statistical methods to advocate for improved health conditions for
British soldiers
-documented that the soldiers' death rate decreased from 42%-2% as a result of health care reforms that emphasized
sanitary conditions
-because of her work in using statistics to demonstrate cause and effect and improve the health of British soldiers,
Nightingale is recognized for her contributions to nursing research
4. demonstrated the power of political activism to effect health care reform by writing letters of criticism accompanied
by constructive recommendations to British army leaders
-her ability to overthrow the British army's management method that had allowed the deplorable conditions to exist in
the army hospitals was considered one of her greatest achievements
5. created the first pie chart
6. established the first nursing school in England, St. Thomas' Hospital of London
7. her theory of environmental cleanliness is still applicable today
image - correct answers 1. the general impression that a person, organization, or product presents to the public.
2. synonyms: public perception, public conception, public impression, persona, profile, face, identity
why is image important for nursing? - correct answers 1. deepening national and global concern about the evolving
nursing shortage
2. how nursing is perceived inside and outside of the health care system directly affects how successful nurses will be in
providing and coordinating pt care
,-when patients seek health care in a hospital, they are entrusting their life and well-being to the one person who has
24/7 direct responsibility for their care and their environment
-unlike their personal physician, the RN, who is coordinating all of their care, is new to them and changes every 12 hours
-it is important that the public trusts and believes in this nurse and the profession the nurse represents
what is the public perception of nursing? - correct answers 1. 2018 Gallup poll showed nurses were at the top of the list
and considered the most honest
2. Four out five rated nurses' ethics as either "high or "very high"
3. More than 70% rated pharmacists and doctors as honest
4. Americans rated ___congress____ and __car sales people____ as the least ethical people.
the nursing shortage - correct answers 1. projected shortfall of 400,000 RNs expected by 2020
2. RN supply is growing faster than projected due to the surge in new nurses 23-26 yrs
victorian image - correct answers 1. sairy gump
-drunken, physically unkempt, uncaring nurse who provided a way to profit from the sick and dying
2. florence nightingale
-one of the earliest users of the emerging body of knowledge called statistics
early twentieth century - correct answers 1. edith cavell
-founder of the first nursing school in Belgium
2. aided soldiers escaping prison camps
stereotypes of nurses - correct answers 1. angel of mercy
-1930s
-portrayed florence nightingale's persistence and head to toe confrontation with medicine
-conveyed to the public that nursing is a holy vocation, nurses have professional credentials, and their career choice is
opposed because popular opinion held that women belong at home
2. girl friday
, 3. heroine
-1940s
-portrayed small group of nurses rerouted to the philippines after the attack on pearl harbor
-cherry ames and sue barton
4. mother
5. sex object
6. careerist
1950s magazine ads - correct answers
1960s nurse ratched - correct answers 1. modern version of sairy gump
2. militaristic nurse who was the ultimate power figure that punished patients to cure their psychosis through
conformity to a "system"
1970s hot lips hooligan and the nurses of the 4077 MASH unit - correct answers 1. negative portrayal
2. sexual exploits of nurses and physicians
the 1980s to 1990s - correct answers 1. miss evers' boys
-nurse who was hired to recruit and retain young african-american men into the infamous tuskegee experiment
designed to describe the long term effects of untreated syphilis
2. the english patient
-war and nursing
-the nurse is a knowledgeable nonjudgmental caregiver
2000-2004 - correct answers 1. greg focker
-endures his father in law's stereotyped views about men who are nurses
2. pearl harbor
-nurses were positively portrayed as heroically providing care and order to the chaos following the bombing attack
3. ER
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