Nursing NUR428 Exam 1 – Practice Questions and Answers Study Guide
Florence Nightingale - ✔✔- Founder of modern nursing
- Environment of patients
- Need for keen observation
- Focus on the whole patient rather than the disease
- Importance of assisting nature to bring about a cure
Clara Barton - ✔✔Founded the American Red Cross
Lillian Wald - ✔✔- First to use the term "public health nursing"
- Public health for lower income individuals & placed nurses in public schools
- Teachers College
- National Organization for Public Health Nursing
- Henry Street Settlement
Margaret Sanger - ✔✔- The Comstock Act of 1873
- Birth control information
- First birth control clinic in America
- International Planned Parenthood Federation
Community health - ✔✔Identification of needs and the protection and improvement of
collective health within a geographically defined area
Public health - ✔✔Activities that society undertakes to assure the conditions where people can
be healthy
- Car safety
, - Safer and healthier foods
Public health nursing - ✔✔Nursing that's community based and population focused
Population - ✔✔- All people occupying an area or all of those who share one or more
characteristics
- People not necessarily interacting with one another - not necessarily sharing a sense of
belonging to that group
Primary prevention - ✔✔Keep illness or injury from occurring
- Vaccines
- Education
Secondary prevention - ✔✔Detect and treat existing diseases
- Screenings
Tertiary prevention - ✔✔Reduce the extent & severity of a health problem to minimize
disability & restore/preserve function
- Rehab
Mary Breckenridge - ✔✔- First modern comprehensive health care system in the US
- Primary nursing care & midwifery
Secondary sources of health indicators - ✔✔Data that's been put out and then generalized
- Health People 2030
- County Health Rankings
Florence Nightingale - ✔✔- Founder of modern nursing
- Environment of patients
- Need for keen observation
- Focus on the whole patient rather than the disease
- Importance of assisting nature to bring about a cure
Clara Barton - ✔✔Founded the American Red Cross
Lillian Wald - ✔✔- First to use the term "public health nursing"
- Public health for lower income individuals & placed nurses in public schools
- Teachers College
- National Organization for Public Health Nursing
- Henry Street Settlement
Margaret Sanger - ✔✔- The Comstock Act of 1873
- Birth control information
- First birth control clinic in America
- International Planned Parenthood Federation
Community health - ✔✔Identification of needs and the protection and improvement of
collective health within a geographically defined area
Public health - ✔✔Activities that society undertakes to assure the conditions where people can
be healthy
- Car safety
, - Safer and healthier foods
Public health nursing - ✔✔Nursing that's community based and population focused
Population - ✔✔- All people occupying an area or all of those who share one or more
characteristics
- People not necessarily interacting with one another - not necessarily sharing a sense of
belonging to that group
Primary prevention - ✔✔Keep illness or injury from occurring
- Vaccines
- Education
Secondary prevention - ✔✔Detect and treat existing diseases
- Screenings
Tertiary prevention - ✔✔Reduce the extent & severity of a health problem to minimize
disability & restore/preserve function
- Rehab
Mary Breckenridge - ✔✔- First modern comprehensive health care system in the US
- Primary nursing care & midwifery
Secondary sources of health indicators - ✔✔Data that's been put out and then generalized
- Health People 2030
- County Health Rankings
