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In early times, nurses were- - __100% CORRECT ANSWER AS Servants
Women of religious orders
Wealthy women (as acts of charity)
Florence Nightingale - __100% CORRECT ANSWER AS *The founder of modern nursing*
Born in 1820, began nurses' training in Germany at age 30
Tended to wounded British soldiers at Scutari Hospital in Turkey during the *Crimean
War*
Reformed British Army Hospitals
Established the first training school for nurses in London.
Wrote a famous book in 1859 called *Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not*
Sairy Gamp - __100% CORRECT ANSWER AS A Dicken's character
Portrayed that hospitals were a place to die - patients were cared for by prostitutes,
drunks, and convicts
Clara Barton - __100% CORRECT ANSWER AS Founded the Red Cross
Dorothea Dix - __100% CORRECT ANSWER AS Reformer who was a pioneer in the
movement for better treatment of the mentally ill
Mary Eliza Mahoney - __100% CORRECT ANSWER AS 1st professionally educated
African American nurse in the United States
Isabel Hampton Robb - __100% CORRECT ANSWER AS Founded the National League
for Nursing (NLN) and the American Nurses Association (ANA).
Lillian Wald - __100% CORRECT ANSWER AS Nurse and social activist
Founded the Henry Street Settlement - The first public health nursing organization
One of the founding members of the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP)
Margaret Sanger - __100% CORRECT ANSWER AS United States nurse who
campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
Lavina Dock - __100% CORRECT ANSWER AS Part of the nursing education reform and
the women's suffrage movement
,Jessie Sleet Scales - __100% CORRECT ANSWER AS The 1st African American public
health nurse
Established the Stillman House, a branch of the Henry Street Settlement
Mary Breckinridge - __100% CORRECT ANSWER AS Founder of the Frontier Nursing
Service (FNS)
This service provided the first organized widwifery program in the United States
What was Florence Nightingale's affect on the British Barrack Hospital Reform? -
__100% CORRECT ANSWER AS She reduced the mortality rate in British hospitals
during the Crimean war by providing food, cleanliness, sunlight, and caring for the
patients.
How have wars influenced the profession of nursing? - __100% CORRECT ANSWER AS
It changed the image of nursing to "heroes" and "angels", strong and noble.
It made people acknowledge the contribution of nursing and demonstrated the value of
care.
WW2 represented the coming of age for __________ nurses. - __100% CORRECT
ANSWER AS Colored
The _____________ _____________ War was the first war that nurses were asked to
volunteer. - __100% CORRECT ANSWER AS Spanish American
Edith Cavell - __100% CORRECT ANSWER AS Executed in Germany for helping soldiers
escape in WW1
The sexual revolution began in the ___________. - __100% CORRECT ANSWER AS
1960's
"Hotlips Hoolihan"
MASH- Movie, TV
Nurse Ratched - __100% CORRECT ANSWER AS Battle Axe Nurse
The 1970s version of Sairy Gamp
Negative Contemporary Images of Nursing Today - __100% CORRECT ANSWER AS
Bimbo- Sex Symbol
"Naughty nurse"
Examples of some images of nursing throughout the years- - __100% CORRECT
ANSWER AS Angels of mercy
Handmaidens
, Sex symbols
Bimbos
Battle Axes
Sadistic torturers
Social, Political, Economic Factors when it comes to the Image of Nursing - __100%
CORRECT ANSWER AS Feminism
Women's movement
Consumer movement
Graying of America
Cultural diversity
Men in nursing
Violence
Technological advances
The three major concepts of nursing- - __100% CORRECT ANSWER AS 1.
Person/individual
2. Environment
3. Health
Concept of Nursing- Person/Individual - __100% CORRECT ANSWER AS An open
system with numerous subsystems (respiratory, gastrointestinal, neurological) that
make up the whole person.
Unique + adaptable, influenced by genetics and the environment
Human needs (Maslow)
Homeostasis
Human Needs Theory- Maslow's Theory - __100% CORRECT ANSWER AS Human
behavior is motivated by intrinsic needs:
Physiological needs -> safety needs -> social needs -> esteem needs -> self
actualization
Adaptation - __100% CORRECT ANSWER AS Theory by Carl Rogers
A person's needs change as the person changes.
Explains why a person may be become anxious in a hospital setting
A system is- - __100% CORRECT ANSWER AS A set of interrelated parts that come
together to form a whole that performs a function
Components of systems - __100% CORRECT ANSWER AS *Input*- the raw material that
enters a system and is transformed by it. Ex- students
*Throughput*- consists of the processes a system uses to convert raw materials (input)
into a form that can be used. Ex- clinicals
*Output*- the end result or product of the system. Ex- graduates