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Hippocrates - correct answers -"Father of Modern Medicine.
Beliefs focused on harmony with the natural law instead of on appeasing the
gods.
Emphasized treating the whole client, mind, body, spirit, and the environment.
Made diagnosis on the basis of symptoms rather than on an isolated idea of a
disease.
He was concerned with ethical standards for physicians, expressed in the now-
famous Hippocratic Oath.
Florence Nightingale - correct answers -Founder of modern nursing, in 1851.
Nightingale supervised 125 nurses in several large hospitals, and advocated a
program of at least 1 year that included basic biological science, techniques to
improve nursing care, and supervised practice.
Isabel Adams Hampton Robb - correct answers -Dedicated her life to raising the
standards of nursing education in the United States, and was the first as director
,of the Illinois Training School for Nurses, headed the new Johns Hopkins Training
School for Nurses.
Formed the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses
and served as chairwoman.
In 1896, she became the first president of a group called the Nurses Associated
Alumnae of the United States and Canada, which would later become the
American Nurses Association (ANA).
Robb helped develop the still the official journal called the American Journal of
Nursing, the first professional journal for nursing.
Lillian Wald - correct answers -Opened a storefront health clinic called the Henry
Street Settlement in New York.
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company saw value in her beliefs and asked her to
organize its nursing branch, and she founded the American Red Cross's Town and
Country Nursing Service.
She founded and became the first president of the National Organization for
Public Health Nursing, was the first to place nurses in public schools, and current
proposals for health-care reform often include her ideas about public health
nursing, independent clinics, and health maintenance.
Loretta C. Ford - correct answers -Credited with founding nurse practitioner
practice.
,Awarded the Blackwell Award (named for the first female doctor in America) from
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, which is given to a woman whose life
exemplifies outstanding service to humanity.
Ford was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2011, and still
consults and lectures at the University of Rochester School of Nursing.
Lamp - correct answers -a symbol of learning, signs of caring, comfort, and often
the difference between life and death. and a symbol of the ideals and selfless
devotion of Florence Nightingale.
Nursing Pin - correct answers -First modern nursing pin is attributed to Florence
Nightingale, a sign of their legal authority as licensed professionals, and was
evidence of their successful completion of the nursing program.
Nursing Cap - correct answers -Much of history, women were required to keep
their heads covered with some type of garment, a white cap that signified "service
to others", for women to keep their heads covered; it kept the nurse's long hair,
up and off her face; and it kept the hair from becoming soiled.
Capping indicated that the student was now off probation and that she had
earned the right to wear the cap during clinical rotations in the hospital, first-year
students wore plain white caps, second-year students had a vertical black band
added to the edge of the cap, and third-year students were given a second vertical
black band.
, QSEN Competencies - correct answers -Client-centered care
Teamwork and collaboration
Evidence-based practice (EBP)
Quality improvement (QI)
Safety Informatics
Importance of Interpersonal education for nurses - correct answers -Local health
needs
Fragmented health-care practices
Present and future health-care needs
Shortages in the health workforce
Collaborative practice
Improved health-care system