NURS 2730 FDN OF NURS PRAC TEST QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS A+ GRADED
Reflexivity
- Thoughtful consciousness, self-awareness
- Encompasses continual evaluation of subjective responses, intersubjective responses
and the research/nursing practice process itself
- Paying attention, being aware, considering context
Minfulness
- Being aware and awake to the present moment
- A practice that is meant to enhance awareness, clarity, understanding, peace, positive
purpose, collaboration and healing within
- Unifies mind, body, heart and spirit
- Must be developed ongoing
Learning from Nursing History
- Critical for advance
- Provides insight to development of healthcare system
- Helps to understand issues within profession like pay scales, regulation, shortage and
unity
Knowledge of Nursing History
- Socializes new nurses into profession
- Encourages critical thinking
- Sheds light on complexity of profession
Understanding Nursing History
- Contributes to development of personal identity as a nurse
- Provides perspective on nursing practice
- Promotes understanding
- Critical for health reform
Preservation of Nursing History
- Informs future gens of nurses
- Everyone's responsibility
Early Nursing Care Delivery
- Delivered by lay women - not a professional in any field
- First Nations women - healers and midwives in their communities - had extensive
knowledge of medicinal plants
- Male attendendants & Jesuit Priests - attended to sick in health care centre in Port
Royal (Acadia)
- Catholic nursing sisters - outreach in the homes - built a network of nurse-run hospitals
Sisters of Charity (Montreal)
- 3 nuns established in Quebec City
- Eventually led to 146 across Canada
- Religious women have significant power/authority as hospital owners, architects',
, treasurers, managers
- Gained respect
- Visited homes in epidemics
- Formalized nursing care
Florence Nightingale
- Credited with introducing sanitary science
- elevated the reputation and position of nursing and established a training school for
nurses
- Introduced concepts that decreased mortality rates
- Established need tor sanitation, dietary requirements, around the clock patient care,
triage, collecting statistical evidence, educating & advocating for foundation nursing
Registration of Nursing
- Distanced nursing from domestic caregiving
- Most nurses were young, affluent white women
Canadian Armed Forces Nursing
- Cared for over 750K patients in 135 units
- Adapted nursing to extreme wartime conditions
- Were Lieutenants
Hospital Based Nursing
- Took hold in 1930s during the depression
- Was a nursing shortage due to war time nurse export
- Increase of medical technologies
- Hospitals were preferred employer for nurses
- Student Nurses' stepped up to fill gaps in exchange for education and a place to live
o Financially benefited hospital
o Poor living conditions for the students
o Questionable education quality
University Programs
- Influenced by WWI and Spanish flu
- After war, funding increased to establish baccalaureate nursing program in Canada
o Year one in class, following years in hospitals
- Community health practices promoted
- First program at UBC in 1919
- Canada is one of few countries in the world requiring a BScN for entry to practice as a
RN
Community Based Nursing
- Active role in tuberculosis response
- Educated on hygiene
- Private duty and home care predominant in 20th century
Health Care & Educational Reform
- Weir Report - Survey of education in Canada - confirmed insufficient classroom
learning and lack of variety in clinical learning
- 1965 Royal Commission on Health Services - was instrumental in moving away from
hospital-based training schools
International Council of Nurses
ANSWERS A+ GRADED
Reflexivity
- Thoughtful consciousness, self-awareness
- Encompasses continual evaluation of subjective responses, intersubjective responses
and the research/nursing practice process itself
- Paying attention, being aware, considering context
Minfulness
- Being aware and awake to the present moment
- A practice that is meant to enhance awareness, clarity, understanding, peace, positive
purpose, collaboration and healing within
- Unifies mind, body, heart and spirit
- Must be developed ongoing
Learning from Nursing History
- Critical for advance
- Provides insight to development of healthcare system
- Helps to understand issues within profession like pay scales, regulation, shortage and
unity
Knowledge of Nursing History
- Socializes new nurses into profession
- Encourages critical thinking
- Sheds light on complexity of profession
Understanding Nursing History
- Contributes to development of personal identity as a nurse
- Provides perspective on nursing practice
- Promotes understanding
- Critical for health reform
Preservation of Nursing History
- Informs future gens of nurses
- Everyone's responsibility
Early Nursing Care Delivery
- Delivered by lay women - not a professional in any field
- First Nations women - healers and midwives in their communities - had extensive
knowledge of medicinal plants
- Male attendendants & Jesuit Priests - attended to sick in health care centre in Port
Royal (Acadia)
- Catholic nursing sisters - outreach in the homes - built a network of nurse-run hospitals
Sisters of Charity (Montreal)
- 3 nuns established in Quebec City
- Eventually led to 146 across Canada
- Religious women have significant power/authority as hospital owners, architects',
, treasurers, managers
- Gained respect
- Visited homes in epidemics
- Formalized nursing care
Florence Nightingale
- Credited with introducing sanitary science
- elevated the reputation and position of nursing and established a training school for
nurses
- Introduced concepts that decreased mortality rates
- Established need tor sanitation, dietary requirements, around the clock patient care,
triage, collecting statistical evidence, educating & advocating for foundation nursing
Registration of Nursing
- Distanced nursing from domestic caregiving
- Most nurses were young, affluent white women
Canadian Armed Forces Nursing
- Cared for over 750K patients in 135 units
- Adapted nursing to extreme wartime conditions
- Were Lieutenants
Hospital Based Nursing
- Took hold in 1930s during the depression
- Was a nursing shortage due to war time nurse export
- Increase of medical technologies
- Hospitals were preferred employer for nurses
- Student Nurses' stepped up to fill gaps in exchange for education and a place to live
o Financially benefited hospital
o Poor living conditions for the students
o Questionable education quality
University Programs
- Influenced by WWI and Spanish flu
- After war, funding increased to establish baccalaureate nursing program in Canada
o Year one in class, following years in hospitals
- Community health practices promoted
- First program at UBC in 1919
- Canada is one of few countries in the world requiring a BScN for entry to practice as a
RN
Community Based Nursing
- Active role in tuberculosis response
- Educated on hygiene
- Private duty and home care predominant in 20th century
Health Care & Educational Reform
- Weir Report - Survey of education in Canada - confirmed insufficient classroom
learning and lack of variety in clinical learning
- 1965 Royal Commission on Health Services - was instrumental in moving away from
hospital-based training schools
International Council of Nurses
