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NSG 310 Exam 1 Review Questions andAnswers
American Civil War (1861-1873) - Answer-No available professional nurses at the start
of the war
Catholic orders served as nurses
Call to duty: emergence of nurses and nurse leaders
After the Civil War - Answer-First training schools through organizations
Professionalization through the organizations
Nursing Focus on social justice: Henry Street Settlement (founded by Lilian Walk and
Mary Brewster)
There was still segregation (lame)
The Spanish-American War : Need for more nurses
1917-1930 - Answer-Challenges of WW1
1918 Flu Epidemic
1931-1945 - Answer-Challenges of the Great Depression
1933: President Roosevelt and the Civl Works Admin
Social Security Act of 1935 which enhanced the practice of public health nursing
World War 2 - Answer-Need for more nurses
Congress enacted support for nursing education
Formed the Cadet Nurse Corps
1954-1960 - Answer-Rise in Hospitals
1961-1982 - Answer-Specialty care and clinical specialization
Medicare & Medicaid
Vietnam War (mobile hospitals, PTSD among nurses, nurses had to go outside the
scope)
1983-2000 - Answer-HIV (universal percautions and changes in equipment like neeles,
IV, gloves)
Medical Technology and Life support was made and Advance Directives
2001-2020 - Answer-2001: World Trade Center (disaster management w focus on
saving lives)
2005: Hurricane Katrina (Provision care under horrendous conditions)
2006: The ANA released a statement that if a nurse has to provide care under bad
conditions there is protection on the nurse (also enhanced collaboration with nursing
and educators)
2010: Afforadable Care Act and incremental implementation
, 2021 and Beyond - Answer-Covid 19 (2019)
2021 - 246 million cases reported and 5 Million Death
Tremendously stress on healthcare
Huge health disparities in standard of health care and access to healthcare
Social Context of Nursing - Answer-Women were intellectually inferior to men so women
were nurses and men were doctors
Men are likely to be younger, employed full-time in nursing, have non-nursing education
and nursing is a second career
Reason Why men become nurses: they want to help people, nursing is a growth
profession with career paths and its a stable career
Key Figures in developing the art and science of nursing practice - Answer-Florence
Nightingale: she started professional nursing
- Training: Kaiserwerth, Germany and Sisters of Charity (Paris)
- Hopsital set up in Scutari, Turkey during the Crimean War
- 1859 she did notes on nursing "What it is and what it is not" this then became the body
of nursing knowledge and professional nursing
- She established the 1st training school at St. Thomas Hospital in London
Mary Seacole:
- Jamaican Nurse and business woman who was voted best black Briton
- She did not work with nightingale because nightingale was racist and rejected her
- Expert on Cholera
- Managed the care of soldiers of Crimea
- Had a "Hotel" where she would help people
How does caring form the foundation of art and science in nursing practice - Answer-
Nursing Theory + Nursing Process = more effective care
Communication for Safety
Nursing = Care (which is an art and a science, compassion and active listening)
Nursology - Answer-Science and Body of knowledge created by and for the discipline of
nursing
Swanson's Theory - Answer-Caring Theory: developed from her work with couples
experiencing miscarriage
Jezewski's Theory - Answer-Cultural Broker Theory: developed from those were were
vulnerable as a function of advanced disease
Mishel's Theory - Answer-Uncertainty in illness theory: which's as developed from
studying men with prostate cancer who were "waiting" for disease progression instead
of seeking treatment
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