NURS 334 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS A
+ GRADED
Marie Rollet
Some consider her the first nurse in Canada, visiting sick but also an assistant to her
husband, an apothecary
Jeanne Mance (1606-1673)
Some consider her the first lay nurse in America. Co-founder of Montreal and founder
and administrator of Hotel-Dieu, first North American hospital
Affects of conquest 1760-1790
Cultural influence of the English and tightening of control over titles and practices
1788 Statute granted monopoly on practice to the official medical corps
Lower Canada (1791-1891)
Epidemics from Europe led to government establishing Grosse-Lle, quarantine island, in
1832. Shelter to the ill and housing for Drs and Nurses
These nurses had no skills except those acquired on the job
Provision of care and shelter by charitable women
Lay Nursing in English Canada
Early colonists relied on family
Unlike the Government of New France the English Canadian government did not pay for
any health services
Population growth led to working class women providing nursing care as a trade or
untrained skill
Cholera epidemics of 1882-1840
Monthly Nurse
Sometimes worked independently or under physicians orders. Hired for confinements
and births
Sick Nurse
Hired for illness and anti-partum care
Private nurse in late 19th C were hired by...
Hired by middle class
What led to the emergence of hospital nurses?
Industrialization and city growth
Hospitals opened in 1871?
Halifax and St John
Hospitals opened in 1875?
Toronto General. Established school in 1881
Catholic Sisters in Quebec
Hospital nursing had religious purpose for care and salvation
Hospitals housed patients of all social class
Catholic sisters ran the hospitals and administrators, nurses and apothecary
Recruited from European religious orders where training in apothecary and midwifery
existed
, Grey Nuns
Often set up clinics in communities where trade was prominent
1847
Establishment of the College of Physicians and Surgeons
1870s and 1880s
Advocates for nurse training and reform due to industrial age with scientific medical
changes
Florence Nightingale
Born in 1820 to upper middle class family. 1853: assumed position of superintendent of
Harley Street home for gentlemen. 1854: Crimean war and was asked by Secretary of
State to take charge of a military hospital in Scurari, Turkey
Emphasized hygiene and environment and collected statistics to indicate the
drop in morbidity and mortality, because of nursing care
Donations allowed her to establish a fund. There was a nursing education system in
conjunction with St Thomas’s hospital. Lady pupils from middle and upper class to pay
tuition and assumed superintended roles upon graduation
Nightingale Method
Establish autonomous reporting systems for nurses
Who and When establishes the Nurses Association of Ontario?
Mary Agnes Snively in 1903
By 1914 all provinces except WHICH had provincial associations?
PEI
What was pushed between 1910-1922 and more elevated in 1955?
Registration for nurses to be distinguished from untrained caregivers
What was pushed for nurses post-WWII?
Unionization for nurses
Regulation
In place to govern behaviour of professional groups or people. Intended to safeguard
public
Self-regulation
A profession is granted the right to regulate its own members.
Establishing a regulatory body for self-regulation ensures the following:
Safe
Competent
Ethical
Regulating Public Interest
How a profession enacts its obligations to ensure the welfare of society. Type of social
contract where professional rights and responsibilities are set as well as expectation for
public accountability. Provision of safe, competent, and ethical client care for all people
and placing interests of public above interested of the profession or individual nurses
What does a regulatory body do?
Protects public by being a gatekeeper
Sets requirement for those entering the profession
Sets competencies that shape education and annual requirements
When can you call yourself a nurse?
Only those who meet criteria defined in legislation can use the title
+ GRADED
Marie Rollet
Some consider her the first nurse in Canada, visiting sick but also an assistant to her
husband, an apothecary
Jeanne Mance (1606-1673)
Some consider her the first lay nurse in America. Co-founder of Montreal and founder
and administrator of Hotel-Dieu, first North American hospital
Affects of conquest 1760-1790
Cultural influence of the English and tightening of control over titles and practices
1788 Statute granted monopoly on practice to the official medical corps
Lower Canada (1791-1891)
Epidemics from Europe led to government establishing Grosse-Lle, quarantine island, in
1832. Shelter to the ill and housing for Drs and Nurses
These nurses had no skills except those acquired on the job
Provision of care and shelter by charitable women
Lay Nursing in English Canada
Early colonists relied on family
Unlike the Government of New France the English Canadian government did not pay for
any health services
Population growth led to working class women providing nursing care as a trade or
untrained skill
Cholera epidemics of 1882-1840
Monthly Nurse
Sometimes worked independently or under physicians orders. Hired for confinements
and births
Sick Nurse
Hired for illness and anti-partum care
Private nurse in late 19th C were hired by...
Hired by middle class
What led to the emergence of hospital nurses?
Industrialization and city growth
Hospitals opened in 1871?
Halifax and St John
Hospitals opened in 1875?
Toronto General. Established school in 1881
Catholic Sisters in Quebec
Hospital nursing had religious purpose for care and salvation
Hospitals housed patients of all social class
Catholic sisters ran the hospitals and administrators, nurses and apothecary
Recruited from European religious orders where training in apothecary and midwifery
existed
, Grey Nuns
Often set up clinics in communities where trade was prominent
1847
Establishment of the College of Physicians and Surgeons
1870s and 1880s
Advocates for nurse training and reform due to industrial age with scientific medical
changes
Florence Nightingale
Born in 1820 to upper middle class family. 1853: assumed position of superintendent of
Harley Street home for gentlemen. 1854: Crimean war and was asked by Secretary of
State to take charge of a military hospital in Scurari, Turkey
Emphasized hygiene and environment and collected statistics to indicate the
drop in morbidity and mortality, because of nursing care
Donations allowed her to establish a fund. There was a nursing education system in
conjunction with St Thomas’s hospital. Lady pupils from middle and upper class to pay
tuition and assumed superintended roles upon graduation
Nightingale Method
Establish autonomous reporting systems for nurses
Who and When establishes the Nurses Association of Ontario?
Mary Agnes Snively in 1903
By 1914 all provinces except WHICH had provincial associations?
PEI
What was pushed between 1910-1922 and more elevated in 1955?
Registration for nurses to be distinguished from untrained caregivers
What was pushed for nurses post-WWII?
Unionization for nurses
Regulation
In place to govern behaviour of professional groups or people. Intended to safeguard
public
Self-regulation
A profession is granted the right to regulate its own members.
Establishing a regulatory body for self-regulation ensures the following:
Safe
Competent
Ethical
Regulating Public Interest
How a profession enacts its obligations to ensure the welfare of society. Type of social
contract where professional rights and responsibilities are set as well as expectation for
public accountability. Provision of safe, competent, and ethical client care for all people
and placing interests of public above interested of the profession or individual nurses
What does a regulatory body do?
Protects public by being a gatekeeper
Sets requirement for those entering the profession
Sets competencies that shape education and annual requirements
When can you call yourself a nurse?
Only those who meet criteria defined in legislation can use the title
