(304-1) Exam 2026 | Practice Questions & Verified
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Popular Liteture - Precise Answer ✔✔General interesting stories
and opinions pieces.
- Easily understood.
- Not peer reviewed.
EX = TIMES or Discover.
Scholarly Liteture - Precise Answer ✔✔Original research and
inquiry.
- Often peer reviewed
- Includes citations
EX = American Journal of Psychology
Peer Reviewed - Precise Answer ✔✔process by which a
scholarly work is checked by a group of experts in the same
field to make sure it meets specific standards
Why do we cite? - Precise Answer ✔✔- Credibility
- Cross-Reference
- Protects from plagiarism
When do we cite? - Precise Answer ✔✔- When it is another
person's words.
- When words are paraphrased.
, - Another person's ideas or thoughts
Micromedex - Precise Answer ✔✔App used for drug
information at QU
Florence Nightengale - Precise Answer ✔✔- Mother of modern
nursing,
- Improved conditions during the Crimean War.
- Believed the role of the nurse was to put the client's body in
the best state to remain free of disease or to recover from
disease.
- She wanted to facilitate the body's reparative processes by
manipulating the client's environment.
Lilian Wald - Precise Answer ✔✔1893, Founder of the Henry
Street Settlement in New York
Clara Barton - Precise Answer ✔✔Launched the American Red
Cross in 1881. An "angel" in the Civil War, she treated the
wounded in the field.
Dorothea Dix - Precise Answer ✔✔- A reformer and pioneer in
the movement to treat the insane as mentally ill, beginning in the
1820's,
- She was responsible for improving conditions in jails,
poorhouses and insane asylums throughout the U.S. and Canada.
- She succeeded in persuading many states to assume
responsibility for the care of the mentally ill.