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Chapter 01: The Evolution of Professional Nursing
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Cherry and Jacob: Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, and Management, 8th Editi
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1. What accomplishment is Clara Barton best known for?
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a. Becoming the first black public health nurse WD WD WD WD WD WD
b. Establishing the Henry Street Settlement WD WD WD WD
c. Founding the American Red Cross WD WD WD WD
d. Publicizing the inadequacies of hospital-based nursing schools WD WD WD WD WD WD
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The American Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton in 1882, to be of assistance in efforts
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to provide supplies to the battlefields and hospitals. Barton also sets up a postwar service to
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find missing soldiers.
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2. Students are assigned to write to their state leaders about an issue affecting their community.
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One student writes about the need among rural community for greater access to acute care
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services. Which piece of legislation should the student use as a reference?
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a. Social Security Act WD WD
b. Hill-Burton Act WD
c. Sheppard-Towner Act WD
d. U.S. Civil Service Act WD WD WD
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The purpose of the Hill-
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Burton Act was to provide funding to construct hospitals and to help states in plan for other
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health care facilities in accordance with the needs of communities.
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3. The practice of public health nursing and the Henry Street Settlement are credited to
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a. Mary Breckenridge. WD
b. Mary Seacole. WD
c. Clara Barton. WD
d. Lillian Wald. WD
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Lillian Wald, a pioneer in public health nursing, is best known for the development and establish
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ment of the Henry Street Settlement.
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4. Occupational health nursing features beliefs similar to those of which early nursing pioneer?
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a. Lillian Wald WD
b. Florence Nightingale WD
c. Clara Barton WD
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Lillian Wald was a pioneer in public health nursing, and is best known for the development a
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nd establishment of the first viable practice for public health nurses.
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DIF: Comprehension
5. What historical event first led to the recognition of the contribution of blacks to nursing?
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a. Florence Nightingale’s acceptance of black nurses into the first nursing school
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b. The contributions of black nurses at the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in
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c. Mary Williams and Frances Rose are listed as nurses in the City of Baltimore
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d. The work done by wives of wealthy black nobles who carried food and medicine
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1840—
Two black women, Mary Williams and Frances Rose, who founded Nursing Sisters of the Ho
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ly Cross, are listed as nurses in the City of Baltimore Directory.
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DIF: Comprehension
6. World War I contributed to the advancement of health care by
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a. increasing the number of private care hospitals and decreasing the role of public
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b. employing a large number of civilians to provide care to returning soldiers through
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the Red Cross.
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World War I offered nurses a chance to enter new fields of specialization, as is seen in the ex
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ample of nurse anesthetists, who became part of surgical teams at the front lines.
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7. What was an original purpose of the Social Security Act of 1935?
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c. Ensure health care for older adults through a national insurance system
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d. Decrease the public’s financial burden by limiting services offered by local health
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departments
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By providing health insurance for older adults, the Social Security Act of 1935 set the prece
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dent for the passage of the Medicare and Medicaid Acts that followed in 1965, but the act als
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o provided maternal and child welfare services, rehabilitation for the mentally and physicall
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y challenged, medical care for blind individuals and crippled children, and unemployment b
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enefits.
DIF: Comprehension