NUR 1290 Exam 1 Questions With Answers Latest Updated 2024/2025 | 100% Correct (GRADED A+)

Nourishing &nuturing children, caring for older adults • trial & error practices Religious image - ANSWER • Caring for the sick, poor, orphans, widows, elderly • connected to Christianity Early groups (religious image) - ANSWER • deaconesses of eastern Christian church • order of the widows • order of the virgins • Benedictines Crusades (religious image) - ANSWER • Created military nursing orders (stated that nurses in this setting were required to devote their lives to caring and exhibit selfless commitment) knights Hospitallers of St John knights Templars knights of the Teutonic order Servant image - ANSWER • Post reformation (1517) • limited Women as homemakers (child bearing and home duties only) • Hospital care was done by "uncommon women" (prisoners, prostitutes, drunks). - this was considered the "dark ages of nursing" Florence Nightingale & Sidney Herbert - ANSWER • Hospital reform • pastor fliedner institute — trained nursing staff Crimean War () - ANSWER • Florence was sent to provide medical care to soldiers NUR 1290 Exam 1 Questions With Answers Latest 2024/2025 | 100% Correct (GRADED A+) allowed for her to later establish hospitals sanitation systems for British military shift to a focus on cleanliness St. Thomas hospital school of nursing - ANSWER • Located in London • revolutionized nursing education • strong focus on learning throughout lifetime Early nursing education in America - ANSWER • new England female medical college(1850) • woman's Hospital of Philadelphia training school (1861) Dr. Samuel D Gross () - ANSWER • Head of committee that aimed to standardize nursing training • nursing training programs established in every hospital • union between religious exercise & nursing would benefit the welfare of the sick New England Hospital for women & children (1872) - ANSWER First formal 1 year nursing program Melinda Ann Richards (1873) - ANSWER First American trained nurse Mary Eliza Mahoney (1879) - ANSWER First woman of african origin to be trained as a nurse Characteristics of early nursing schools - ANSWER • militaristic & religious roots extreme disciplinary measures, long hours • after , # of nursing schools increased & became more moderate • American journal of nursing (1900) Military influence - ANSWER • Red Cross: aid soldiers during battle • army nurse corps (1901) • navy nurse corps (1908) • American Revolution: development of dispensaries — provided vaccinations for small pox (first sign of preventative medicine) • Civil war: ambulances & triage • WWII: increased status and authority to nursing, flight nursing, GI bill allowed nurses to pursue B.S. and M.S. • korean/vietnam war: MASH units Medicine vs nursing - ANSWER • Medicine: diagnosis & treatment of disease • nursing: care of the individual from a holistic perspective Nursing (American Nurses Association) - ANSWER The protection, promotion, & optimization of health & abilities, prevention of illness & injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis & treatment of human response & advocacy in the care of individuals families, communities, & populations Nursing shortage - ANSWER • Baby boomer era red to increased elderly— reduced staff • institutions have not been able to increase nursing class size— limited clinical sites • nurse retention (worker burn out) Nursing nomenclatures/ classification systems - ANSWER • efforts to define a language for nursing to communicate information & guide data collection • important as nursing moves into international framework • quality improvement efforts Nursing terminologies systems (1) - ANSWER NANDA International Inc • North American Diagnosis Association • develop taxonomy • identify & approve nursing diagnoses Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) (2) - ANSWER Comprehensive, standardized language that describes actions nurses perform is all settings & specialties Nursing Outcome Classification (3) - ANSWER Variable concepts which help to identify changes in patient status Omaha System (4) - ANSWER Research based taxonomy which documents patient care from admission to discharge Minimum data set for nursing Home resident (5) - ANSWER Assessment & care screening • data collection for assessment of long term care facilities International classification for nursing practice project (6) - ANSWER Unify & standardize terminology QUESTIONS AND REVIEW - ANSWER 1. Discuss the early origins of nursing and factors that influenced the development of the nursing profession - ANSWER • Children & elderly need an adult to takecare of them • existence of disease & later on treatment of disease led to growth of medicine then leading to need for staff 2. Describe Florence Nightingale's contribution to nursing and the growth and improvement of nursing education - ANSWER • influecened the development of nursing training programs within medical schools Advocated for academic approach to nursing— drafted a curriculum with science & care of individual combined • importance of cleanliness hygiene in disease prevention 3. Discuss the development and characteristics of early nursing schools - ANSWER • Strict & disciplined with long hours • hands on teaching • some had lectures given by medical doctors 4. analyze the impact that wars and conflicts have had on nursing and nursing education - ANSWER • nurses functioned as medical assistance in civil war, WWI, WWII— directly providing aid to soldiers 5. identify the major differences between nursing and medicine - ANSWER • nursing: more holistic approach, combines well with treatment • medicine: focus on clinical evidence to diagnose diseases & provide treatment (surgical or pharmacological intervention) 8. Describe some traditions in nursing and explain why they are embraces by the nursing profession - ANSWER The nursing uniforms, caps and pins embrace the profession because they promote the cleanliness and proper view of nurses. In addition they symbolize the academic achievements of a nurse 7. compare and contrast the term "profession" and "professional" and explain why the difference is significant to nursing - ANSWER profession: involve intellectual thought, use of judgment, result of work cannot be standardized in relation to time, requires knowledge of an advanced type in the field of science Professional: how a person approaches their role— approach nursing role earnestly, strive for excellence, demonstrates sense of ethics and responsibility. This occurs with attitude, dress, conduct and deportment The difference is important because nursing should require intellectual pursuit and not simply pure ethics and altruism. There should be a competent of science as well as a component of caring involved in the career 6. describe the 7 characteristics which social scientists use to evaluate professions and analyze how they can be applied - ANSWER 1. possession of a body of specialized knowledge: Nursing techniques/skills/terminologies are specific to the field 2. Use of Scientific Method to Enlarge the Body of Knowledge: Evidence based practice 3. Education within institutions of Higher Education: BSN, Associates, Masters, DNP 4. Control of Professional Policy, Professional Activity and Autonomy: nursing policies and protocols, standard of practice 5. Code of Ethics: standard for professional behavior 6. Nursing as a Lifetime Commitment 7. Service to the Public: altruism