NUR 443 MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE
Public Health Nursing - Answers - Focuses on all levels of prevention, with an emphasis
on primary prevention.
Core Public Health Functions: Assessment - Answers - Systematic data collection on
the population, monitoring the population's health status, and making information
available about the health of the community
Core Public Health Functions: Policy Development - Answers - Efforts to develop
policies that support the health of the population, including using a scientific knowledge
base to make policy decisions.
Assurance - Answers - Making sure the essential community oriented health services
are available. Making sure that a competent public health workforce is available.
Lillian Wald - Answers - -1885 Started the NYC Henry Street Settlement
-Believed nurse should not only care for the sick in their homes but teach prevention,
address social conditions
-Introduced "school nursing" in US
Mary Breckenridge - Answers - -Established the Frontier Nursing Service in 1925 to
provide nursing for underserved populations in remote mountains of Kentucky
-Introduced the first nurse midwives in the US
-Led to reduced pregnancy complications and maternal mortality
Florence Nightingale - Answers - -Devoted life to prevention of needless illness and
death
-Prevention of infections
-Focus on environmental health
-Devoted life to prevention of needless illness and death
-Prevention of infections
Focus on environmental health
-Population based approach - Crimean War
-Demonstrated need for reform
-Improved cleanliness, hygiene, and nutrition
-Death rate of soldiers fell
Seacole - Answers - -requested to join nightingale but was denied
-opened british hotel to help soldiers
-she experienced racism
Mahoney - Answers - ...
Public Health Nursing - Answers - Focuses on all levels of prevention, with an emphasis
on primary prevention.
Core Public Health Functions: Assessment - Answers - Systematic data collection on
the population, monitoring the population's health status, and making information
available about the health of the community
Core Public Health Functions: Policy Development - Answers - Efforts to develop
policies that support the health of the population, including using a scientific knowledge
base to make policy decisions.
Assurance - Answers - Making sure the essential community oriented health services
are available. Making sure that a competent public health workforce is available.
Lillian Wald - Answers - -1885 Started the NYC Henry Street Settlement
-Believed nurse should not only care for the sick in their homes but teach prevention,
address social conditions
-Introduced "school nursing" in US
Mary Breckenridge - Answers - -Established the Frontier Nursing Service in 1925 to
provide nursing for underserved populations in remote mountains of Kentucky
-Introduced the first nurse midwives in the US
-Led to reduced pregnancy complications and maternal mortality
Florence Nightingale - Answers - -Devoted life to prevention of needless illness and
death
-Prevention of infections
-Focus on environmental health
-Devoted life to prevention of needless illness and death
-Prevention of infections
Focus on environmental health
-Population based approach - Crimean War
-Demonstrated need for reform
-Improved cleanliness, hygiene, and nutrition
-Death rate of soldiers fell
Seacole - Answers - -requested to join nightingale but was denied
-opened british hotel to help soldiers
-she experienced racism
Mahoney - Answers - ...
