NSG-310 Exam 1 Questions and Answers
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Quiz: Florence Nightingale⼀Answer: -established the first nursing
philosophy based on health maintenance and restoration
-developed the first organized program for training nurses
-first practicing nurse epidemiologist
-saw nursing as in charge of someone else's health
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-lady with the lamp
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-improved sanitation (linked poor sanitation with cholera and dysentery;
reduced mortality rates from 42.7% to 2.2% in 6 months)
Quiz: First organized program for training nurses⼀Answer: The
Nightingale Training School for Nurses at St. Thomas Hospital in London
Quiz: American Civil War (1861-1865)⼀Answer: -volunteer women
demonstrated effectiveness of skilled nursing on improved outcomes
-emergence of nurse training schools based on Nightingale apprenticeship
model
Quiz: Nightingale's Apprenticeship Model of Nursing⼀Answer: -
provided physicians and hospitals with an inexpensive and skilled
workforce
-provided working-class women with the opportunity for employment
outside the home
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Quiz: 1873: Establishment of the First Three Training Schools for Nurses
in US⼀Answer: -pupil nurses under direction of nursing superintendent
-required 2-3 years of intense hospital work
-upon program completion, they could be employed as graduate private
duty nurses
-women who were trained nurses saw social status elevated as a result of
training
Quiz: Nurse Training Program⼀Answer: -long days of patient service
-training classes were held at end of long days on wards
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-nursing duties included patient care, cleaning wards and operating rooms,
meal preparation, sterilization of instruments, and assisting physicians
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Quiz: 1894: Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses of
the US and Canada⼀Answer: -focus was to advance and standardize
training of nurses
-goal was to promote fellowship and establish/maintain universal standard
of training
Quiz: What was society of superintendents of training school for nurses
of the US and Canada renamed?⼀Answer: National League for Nursing
Educators (NLNE)
Quiz: Early 1900's⼀Answer: -US Bureau of Census: 109,000 untrained
nurses and midwives compete with 12,000 graduate nurses
-Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the US and Canada focused on legal
recognition of trained nurses (to protect the public: legal registration for
trained nurses)
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Quiz: 1896: Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the US and Canada⼀
Answer: -purpose to achieve legal recognition for trained nurses to counter
the belief that "an ignorant woman who is not fit for anything else is good
enough for a nurse"
Quiz: What was the Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the US and Canada
renamed in 1912?⼀Answer: American Nurses Association (ANA)
Quiz: Enactment of Nurse Licensure⼀Answer: -a registered nurse had
attended an acceptable nursing program and passed a board evaluation
examination
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-1923: all states enacted nurse registration laws
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Quiz: Nursing Practice in Early 20th Century America⼀Answer: -
hospitals (student nurses and head nurse)
-private duty nurses (registry, autonomous practice, contagious disease,
childbirth, fractures, strokes, mental illness)
Quiz: Private Duty Nurses⼀Answer: -graduated nurses employed by the
middle/upper class households
-seasonal work: busy winters and slow summers
-1920 surplus of nurses
-1928 burgess report: a study of the plight of the graduated nurse
Quiz: Opinions of Nursing Change⼀Answer: -before, many physicians
and hospital administrators did not value the presence of graduate nurses in
their hospitals
-many private duty nurses increased their clinical medical knowledge and
skills on their own
-physicians and families requested these nurses
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-hospitals began to add registered nurses to the staff in the late 1930s
Quiz: Progressivism and Public Health Nursing⼀Answer: -social
change: urbanization, industrialization, influx of European immigrants
(overcrowding, filthy streets, and poor working condition)
-Lillian Wald: established role for nursing in the community because the
needs of NY residents were limitless
Quiz: What did Lillian Wald and Mary Brewster establish?⼀Answer:
Henry Street Settlement House and Henry Street Visiting Nurse Services
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Quiz: Lillian Wald and Visiting Nurses⼀Answer: -expansion to: school
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nursing, industrial nursing, TB nursing, and infant welfare nursing
-worked with Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and organized home
visits to the company's customers who were ill
Quiz: What did Lillian Wald found in 1912?⼀Answer: The National
Organization for Public Health Nursing
Quiz: Progressive Era and Community Health Nursing⼀Answer: -1912:
Children's Bureau
-1921: Maternal and Infant Act (Sheppard-Towner Act)
-application of epidemiology knowledge and sanitation practices
-care of individuals, families and communities
-health promotion and disease prevention
Quiz: 1950s: Hospitals Became the Major Employers of Nurses⼀
Answer: -initially nurses were viewed as potential threats to administrations
and physicians