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1. What accomplishment is Clara Barton best known for?
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b. Establishing the HenryStreet Settlement l l l l
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vide supplies to the battlefields and hospitals. Barton also sets up a postwar service to find missing
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2. Students are assigned to write to their state leaders about an issue affecting their community.One s
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tudent writes about the need among rural community for greater access to acute care services. Wh
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ich piece of legislation should the student use as a reference?
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are facilities in accordance with the needs of communities.
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3. The practice of public health nursing and the Henry Street Settlement are credited to
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b. MarySeacole. l
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Lillian Wald, a pioneer in public health nursing, is best known for the development andestab
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4. Occupational health nursing features beliefs similar to those of which early nursing pioneer?
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b. Florence Nightingale l
c. Clara Barton l
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5. What historical event first led to the recognition of the contribution of blacks to nursing?
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b. The contributions of black nurses at the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital inAme
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c. Mary Williams and Frances Rose are listed as nurses in the City of BaltimoreDire
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d. The work done by wives of wealthy black nobles who carried food and medicinefrom
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ss, are listed as nurses in the Cityof Baltimore Directory.
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6. World War I contributed to the advancement of health care by
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World War I offered nurses a chance to enter new fields of specialization, as is seen in theexamp
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le of nurse anesthetists, who became part of surgical teams at the front lines.
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7. What was an original purpose of the Social Security Act of 1935?
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c. Ensure health care for older adults through a national insurance system
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By providing health insurance for older adults, the Social Security Act of 1935 set the precedent f
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or the passage of the Medicare and Medicaid Acts that followed in 1965, but theact also provided
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maternal and child welfare services, rehabilitation for the mentally and physically challenged,
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medical care for blind individuals and crippled children, and unemployment benefits.
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