PVC 1 Nursing History Questions With Complete Solutions
Who is Dorothea Dix Correct Answers -teacher by profession
...... ......
-during civil war was appointed superintendent of nurses
-organized a corps of female nurses
-established the first hospital for the mentally ill
Who is Clara Barton Correct Answers -teacher by profession
...... ......
-one of the first civilians to gather army supplies during the
Civil War
-1864: Appointed Superintendent of the Department of Nurses
for the Army
-following war President Andrew Johnson commissioned her to
find missing prisoners of war
-1881: helped establish first chapter of American Red Cross in
Danville, New York
Who is Lavina Dock Correct Answers -was a writer and political
...... ......
activist
-early feminist devoted to women's suffrage
-participated in protest and demonstrations until passage of the
19th Amendment in 1920
-1893 Dock with Isabel Hampton Robb and Mary Nutting
founded the American Society of Superintendents of Training
Schools for Nurses of the U.S. and Canada
-This organization was very politically active & became the
NLN which promotes quality nursing education to this day
Who is Clara Louis Maass (1876-1901) Correct Answers -One of ...... ......
the nation's most courageous nurses, Clara Louise Maass lost
her life during scientific studies to determine the cause of yellow
,fever. A graduate of Newark German Hospital Training School
for Nurses, she worked as an Army nurse in Florida, Cuba, and
the Philippines during the Spanish-American War.
-In 1900, Maass returned to Cuba at the request of Maj. William
Gorgas, chief sanitation officer. There she became embroiled in
a controversy over the cause of yellow fever. To determine
whether the tropical fever was caused by city filth or the bite of
a mosquito, seven volunteers, including Maass, were bitten by
the mosquitoes.
-Two men died, but she survived. Several months later she again
volunteered to be bitten, this time suffering severe pain and
fever.
-Maass died of yellow fever at the age of 25. In her memory,
Newark German Hospital was renamed Clara Maass Memorial
Hospital and in 1952, Cuba issued a national postage stamp in
her name.
-In 1976, the U.S. Postal Service honored Clara Louise Maass
with a commemorative stamp.
Mary Eliza Mahoney (1845-1926) Correct Answers -America's
...... ......
first black professional nurse, Mary Eliza Mahoney is known not
only for her outstanding personal career, but also for her
exemplary contributions to local and national professional
organizations
-Mahoney inspired both nurses and patients with her calm, quiet
efficiency and untiring compassion
-Today, the Mary Mahoney Award is bestowed biennially in
recognition of significant contributions in interracial
relationships.
, Who is Helen Fairchild (1885-1918) Correct Answers -Was a
...... ......
1913 graduate of Pennsylvania Hospital Training School in
Philadelphia. When the United States entered the World War in
1917 Helen joined the Pennsylvania Hospital unit as a nurse.
These American Expeditionary Force Base Hospitals included
physicians, nurses and dietiticians and six such units from across
the country departed for France in May 1917 to serve with the
British Expeditionary Forces
-She herself became a casualty, possibly from the exposure to
mustard gas and stresses of combat. She died following
exploratory surgery; the autopsy listed "acute yellow atrophy of
the liver," as a cause of death.
Who is Jane Arminda Delano (1862-1919) Correct Answers -
...... ......
Was the central figure in uniting the work of the Nurses'
Associated Alumnae (renamed the American Nurses Association
in 1911), Army Nurse Corps, and American Red Cross. From
1909-1912, she served as president of the Nurses' Associated
Alumnae and became superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps
-Perhaps her greatest achievement was helping supply 20,000
professional nurses to meet the needs of that war. She died in
Europe while in wartime service.
-Her motto was "American nurses for American Men"
Who is Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965) Correct Answers -
...... ......
Introduced a model rural health care system into the United
States in 1925. To provide professional services to neglected
people of a thousand square mile area in southeastern Kentucky,
she created a decentralized system of nurse-midwives, district
nursing centers, and hospital facilities. Originally called the
Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies, later the Frontier
Who is Dorothea Dix Correct Answers -teacher by profession
...... ......
-during civil war was appointed superintendent of nurses
-organized a corps of female nurses
-established the first hospital for the mentally ill
Who is Clara Barton Correct Answers -teacher by profession
...... ......
-one of the first civilians to gather army supplies during the
Civil War
-1864: Appointed Superintendent of the Department of Nurses
for the Army
-following war President Andrew Johnson commissioned her to
find missing prisoners of war
-1881: helped establish first chapter of American Red Cross in
Danville, New York
Who is Lavina Dock Correct Answers -was a writer and political
...... ......
activist
-early feminist devoted to women's suffrage
-participated in protest and demonstrations until passage of the
19th Amendment in 1920
-1893 Dock with Isabel Hampton Robb and Mary Nutting
founded the American Society of Superintendents of Training
Schools for Nurses of the U.S. and Canada
-This organization was very politically active & became the
NLN which promotes quality nursing education to this day
Who is Clara Louis Maass (1876-1901) Correct Answers -One of ...... ......
the nation's most courageous nurses, Clara Louise Maass lost
her life during scientific studies to determine the cause of yellow
,fever. A graduate of Newark German Hospital Training School
for Nurses, she worked as an Army nurse in Florida, Cuba, and
the Philippines during the Spanish-American War.
-In 1900, Maass returned to Cuba at the request of Maj. William
Gorgas, chief sanitation officer. There she became embroiled in
a controversy over the cause of yellow fever. To determine
whether the tropical fever was caused by city filth or the bite of
a mosquito, seven volunteers, including Maass, were bitten by
the mosquitoes.
-Two men died, but she survived. Several months later she again
volunteered to be bitten, this time suffering severe pain and
fever.
-Maass died of yellow fever at the age of 25. In her memory,
Newark German Hospital was renamed Clara Maass Memorial
Hospital and in 1952, Cuba issued a national postage stamp in
her name.
-In 1976, the U.S. Postal Service honored Clara Louise Maass
with a commemorative stamp.
Mary Eliza Mahoney (1845-1926) Correct Answers -America's
...... ......
first black professional nurse, Mary Eliza Mahoney is known not
only for her outstanding personal career, but also for her
exemplary contributions to local and national professional
organizations
-Mahoney inspired both nurses and patients with her calm, quiet
efficiency and untiring compassion
-Today, the Mary Mahoney Award is bestowed biennially in
recognition of significant contributions in interracial
relationships.
, Who is Helen Fairchild (1885-1918) Correct Answers -Was a
...... ......
1913 graduate of Pennsylvania Hospital Training School in
Philadelphia. When the United States entered the World War in
1917 Helen joined the Pennsylvania Hospital unit as a nurse.
These American Expeditionary Force Base Hospitals included
physicians, nurses and dietiticians and six such units from across
the country departed for France in May 1917 to serve with the
British Expeditionary Forces
-She herself became a casualty, possibly from the exposure to
mustard gas and stresses of combat. She died following
exploratory surgery; the autopsy listed "acute yellow atrophy of
the liver," as a cause of death.
Who is Jane Arminda Delano (1862-1919) Correct Answers -
...... ......
Was the central figure in uniting the work of the Nurses'
Associated Alumnae (renamed the American Nurses Association
in 1911), Army Nurse Corps, and American Red Cross. From
1909-1912, she served as president of the Nurses' Associated
Alumnae and became superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps
-Perhaps her greatest achievement was helping supply 20,000
professional nurses to meet the needs of that war. She died in
Europe while in wartime service.
-Her motto was "American nurses for American Men"
Who is Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965) Correct Answers -
...... ......
Introduced a model rural health care system into the United
States in 1925. To provide professional services to neglected
people of a thousand square mile area in southeastern Kentucky,
she created a decentralized system of nurse-midwives, district
nursing centers, and hospital facilities. Originally called the
Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies, later the Frontier
