NURS 120 Quiz #1
Florence Nightingale - answer Born 1820 England.
Known as the Founder of Modern Nursing
"The lady with the lamp"
*Hygiene of hospitals and soldiers during the Crimean war
* Publications dedicated to hospital reform
Mary Seacole - answer “Mother Seacole" - mixed race
Denied opportunity to work with Nightingale & team because of her race
Set up own private hospital in hotel with her own $$$
Went to the front lines
*Previous experience with Cholera
Dorothy Dix - answerAmerican Civil War
Superintendent of Women Nurses by Union Army
Advocate for mentally ill in pre-war years
Mary Ann Bickerdyke - answerAmerican Civil War
Herbalist from IL
Selected by church to go to to front lines to deliver supplies
Accompanied Ulysses S. Grant down the Mississippi River advocating for cleanliness
Not a formally trained nurse
Clara Barton - answer*American Civil War
"Angel of the Battlefield"
Founder of American Red Cross
Collected Blankets and supplies and delivered them soldiers
Sallie Tompkins - answerAmerican Civil War (confederacy)
Only woman in confederate army to hold a title
---"captain of calvary unassigned"
Linda Richards - answer1874: First trained Nurse in the U.S.
Mary Mahoney - answerFirst trained African American Nurse in US
Isabel Hampton Robb - answerStarted American Nurses Association
Key Player at the 1893 Chicago World Fair Nurses meeting
1893 Chicago World's Fair - answerGathering fo Nurses (Robb, Dock, and Fenwick)
Discussed lack of uniformity in teaching at various nursing schools
Precursor to National League of Nursing
, Henry Street Settlement - answer1893: NYC Lower East Side.
*Established by Lillian Wald
*First public health nursing practice
*Influx of immigrants was creating cramped unhealthy living conditions
Margaret Sanger - answer* Became the face of the battle for safe contraception and
family planning.
* ideas were controversial and even considered radical
* witnessed a woman die during an at home abortion
* Important to note Sanger was not Pro-Abortion, rather an feminist advocate for female
reproductive rights
Jessie Sleet Scales - answer* Community nursing for African Americans
-Helped established the Stillman House (branch of Henry Street Settlement for African
Americans
Spanish American War - answer1898- Widespread outbreak of typhoid fever
Isabel Hampton Robb and Anita McGee
--Enlisted as lay nurses
--Head of the hospital corps
--Demand for nurses was much higher than anticipated
What was the first state to mandate state licensure for nurses? What year did this take
place? - answerNew York 1923
Great Depression - answerNurses started moving back into hospital setting because
people could no longer afford at home care
Increased unemployment for nurses and many hospitals were forced to shut down their
nursing schools
**Social Security Act help matters
--> focused on public health nursing (ex. blind people and children with disabilities)
WWII - answerMain take away: Shortage in nurses led to Nurse Cadet Corps
Hill Burton Act - answer1946- Provided funds to build hospitals
-rapid expansion led to nursing shortage
-led to idea of team nursing
**Associate degree in nursing arose
Medicare and Medicaid - answer1960-1982
Lack of primary care physicians led to first nurse practitioners
Metaparadigm - answerrefers to the most abstract aspect of the structure of nursing
knowledge
Florence Nightingale - answer Born 1820 England.
Known as the Founder of Modern Nursing
"The lady with the lamp"
*Hygiene of hospitals and soldiers during the Crimean war
* Publications dedicated to hospital reform
Mary Seacole - answer “Mother Seacole" - mixed race
Denied opportunity to work with Nightingale & team because of her race
Set up own private hospital in hotel with her own $$$
Went to the front lines
*Previous experience with Cholera
Dorothy Dix - answerAmerican Civil War
Superintendent of Women Nurses by Union Army
Advocate for mentally ill in pre-war years
Mary Ann Bickerdyke - answerAmerican Civil War
Herbalist from IL
Selected by church to go to to front lines to deliver supplies
Accompanied Ulysses S. Grant down the Mississippi River advocating for cleanliness
Not a formally trained nurse
Clara Barton - answer*American Civil War
"Angel of the Battlefield"
Founder of American Red Cross
Collected Blankets and supplies and delivered them soldiers
Sallie Tompkins - answerAmerican Civil War (confederacy)
Only woman in confederate army to hold a title
---"captain of calvary unassigned"
Linda Richards - answer1874: First trained Nurse in the U.S.
Mary Mahoney - answerFirst trained African American Nurse in US
Isabel Hampton Robb - answerStarted American Nurses Association
Key Player at the 1893 Chicago World Fair Nurses meeting
1893 Chicago World's Fair - answerGathering fo Nurses (Robb, Dock, and Fenwick)
Discussed lack of uniformity in teaching at various nursing schools
Precursor to National League of Nursing
, Henry Street Settlement - answer1893: NYC Lower East Side.
*Established by Lillian Wald
*First public health nursing practice
*Influx of immigrants was creating cramped unhealthy living conditions
Margaret Sanger - answer* Became the face of the battle for safe contraception and
family planning.
* ideas were controversial and even considered radical
* witnessed a woman die during an at home abortion
* Important to note Sanger was not Pro-Abortion, rather an feminist advocate for female
reproductive rights
Jessie Sleet Scales - answer* Community nursing for African Americans
-Helped established the Stillman House (branch of Henry Street Settlement for African
Americans
Spanish American War - answer1898- Widespread outbreak of typhoid fever
Isabel Hampton Robb and Anita McGee
--Enlisted as lay nurses
--Head of the hospital corps
--Demand for nurses was much higher than anticipated
What was the first state to mandate state licensure for nurses? What year did this take
place? - answerNew York 1923
Great Depression - answerNurses started moving back into hospital setting because
people could no longer afford at home care
Increased unemployment for nurses and many hospitals were forced to shut down their
nursing schools
**Social Security Act help matters
--> focused on public health nursing (ex. blind people and children with disabilities)
WWII - answerMain take away: Shortage in nurses led to Nurse Cadet Corps
Hill Burton Act - answer1946- Provided funds to build hospitals
-rapid expansion led to nursing shortage
-led to idea of team nursing
**Associate degree in nursing arose
Medicare and Medicaid - answer1960-1982
Lack of primary care physicians led to first nurse practitioners
Metaparadigm - answerrefers to the most abstract aspect of the structure of nursing
knowledge
