NSG-440 Exam 1 Questions and Answers(A+ Solution guide)

Elizabethan Poor Law - guaranteed medical care for poor, blind, and lame individuals Public Health Service - provided health care for merchant seamen and protected seacoast cities from epidemics Shattuck Report - called for major innovations - boards of health sanitation - care for the poor - health practices vital statistics - birth and death records - planning - health education Florence Nightingale - English nurse remembered for her work during the Crimean War - decreased mortality rate - separated clean and dirty ENVIRONMENT William Rathbone - founded first district nursing association in Liverpool, England Lillian Wald - - established leader of population health nursing - established Henry Street Settlement Occupational health nursing - Began as industrial nursing and was a true outgrowth of early home visiting effortsProviding care for factory workers and their families Lina Rogers - first US school focused on absenteeism and malnourishment in children Mary Breckinridge - established the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky (nurses travelled by horse and mule to rural clients) midwifery Bessie Hawes - first recipient of the National Health Circle for Colored People Scholarship Medicare - A federal program of health insurance for persons 65 years of age and older ELDERLY Medicaid - A federal and state assistance program that pays for health care services for people who cannot afford them. POOR Public Health Nursing - practice of promoting and protecting the health of populations using knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences