Test Bank Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, and
Management 10th Edition
by Barbara Cherry & Susan R. Jacob
Expert Verified Chapter 1-28
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, Chapter 01: The Evolution of Professional Nursing
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. What accomplishment is Clara Barton best known for?
a. Becoming the first black public health nurse
b. Establishing the Henry Street Settlement
c. Founding the American Red Cross
d. Publicizing the inadequacies of hospital-based nursing schools
CORRECT ANSWER: C
The American Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton in 1882, to be of assistance in efforts to provide
supplies to the battlefields and hospitals. Barton also sets up a postwar service to find missing soldiers.
DIF:Knowledge
2. Students are assigned to write to their state leaders about an issue affecting their community. One
student writes about the need among rural community for greater access to acute care services. Which
piece of legislation should the student use as a reference?
a. Social Security Act
b. Hill-Burton Act
c. Sheppard-Towner Act
d. U.S. Civil Service Act
CORRECT ANSWER:
B
The purpose of the Hill-Burton Act was to provide funding to construct hospitals and to help states in
plan for other health care facilities in accordance with the needs of communities.
DIF:Knowledge
3. The practice of public health nursing and the Henry Street Settlement are credited to
a. Mary Breckenridge.
b. Mary Seacole.
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,c. Clara Barton.
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, d. Lillian Wald.
CORRECT ANSWER: D
Lillian Wald, a pioneer in public health nursing, is best known for the development and establishment of
the Henry Street Settlement.
DIF:Knowledge
4. Occupational health nursing features beliefs similar to those of which early nursing pioneer?
a. Lillian Wald
b. Florence Nightingale
c. Clara Barton
d. Mary Seacole
CORRECT ANSWER:
A
Lillian Wald was a pioneer in public health nursing, and is best known for the development and
establishment of the first viable practice for public health nurses.
DIF:Comprehension
5. What historical event first led to the recognition of the contribution of blacks to nursing?
a. Florence Nightingale‘s acceptance of black nurses into the first nursing school
b. The contributions of black nurses at the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in America
c. Mary Williams and Frances Rose are listed as nurses in the City of Baltimore Directory
d. The work done by wives of wealthy black nobles who carried food and medicine from house to house
during the Middle Ages
CORRECT ANSWER: C
1840—Two black women, Mary Williams and Frances Rose, who founded Nursing Sisters of the Holy
Cross, are listed as nurses in the City of Baltimore Directory.
DIF:Comprehension
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Management 10th Edition
by Barbara Cherry & Susan R. Jacob
Expert Verified Chapter 1-28
1|Page
, Chapter 01: The Evolution of Professional Nursing
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. What accomplishment is Clara Barton best known for?
a. Becoming the first black public health nurse
b. Establishing the Henry Street Settlement
c. Founding the American Red Cross
d. Publicizing the inadequacies of hospital-based nursing schools
CORRECT ANSWER: C
The American Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton in 1882, to be of assistance in efforts to provide
supplies to the battlefields and hospitals. Barton also sets up a postwar service to find missing soldiers.
DIF:Knowledge
2. Students are assigned to write to their state leaders about an issue affecting their community. One
student writes about the need among rural community for greater access to acute care services. Which
piece of legislation should the student use as a reference?
a. Social Security Act
b. Hill-Burton Act
c. Sheppard-Towner Act
d. U.S. Civil Service Act
CORRECT ANSWER:
B
The purpose of the Hill-Burton Act was to provide funding to construct hospitals and to help states in
plan for other health care facilities in accordance with the needs of communities.
DIF:Knowledge
3. The practice of public health nursing and the Henry Street Settlement are credited to
a. Mary Breckenridge.
b. Mary Seacole.
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,c. Clara Barton.
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, d. Lillian Wald.
CORRECT ANSWER: D
Lillian Wald, a pioneer in public health nursing, is best known for the development and establishment of
the Henry Street Settlement.
DIF:Knowledge
4. Occupational health nursing features beliefs similar to those of which early nursing pioneer?
a. Lillian Wald
b. Florence Nightingale
c. Clara Barton
d. Mary Seacole
CORRECT ANSWER:
A
Lillian Wald was a pioneer in public health nursing, and is best known for the development and
establishment of the first viable practice for public health nurses.
DIF:Comprehension
5. What historical event first led to the recognition of the contribution of blacks to nursing?
a. Florence Nightingale‘s acceptance of black nurses into the first nursing school
b. The contributions of black nurses at the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in America
c. Mary Williams and Frances Rose are listed as nurses in the City of Baltimore Directory
d. The work done by wives of wealthy black nobles who carried food and medicine from house to house
during the Middle Ages
CORRECT ANSWER: C
1840—Two black women, Mary Williams and Frances Rose, who founded Nursing Sisters of the Holy
Cross, are listed as nurses in the City of Baltimore Directory.
DIF:Comprehension
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