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,Chapter 01: A Brief History of Professional Nursing in the United StatesMULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Historically, women were considered the obvious choice for nursing sick patients, because
a. caring for others was an extension of their homemaker role.
b. early nurses were nuns, so the public was used to women in nursing.
c. men, who had education, were reluctant to try nursing.
d. women were often at home anyway, so caregiving was easy.
ANS: A
Women’s domestic role (as homemakers and mothers) was naturally associated with the
caregiving required in nursing. Although religious orders did play a role in health care, it was
the domestic duties of women that set the stage for their involvement in nursing.
Widespread education for men and women is a fairly new phenomenon and did not play a role
in the early history of nursing. Women did not care for sick or injured strangers in their
homes, so being at home was irrelevant.
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2. Florence Nightingale’s views about trained nurses were most influenced by her
a. experiences in wartime.
b. ideas about sanitation.
c. relationships with physicians.
d. view of education.
ANS: A
Nightingale’s experiences in wartime demonstrated to her that trained nurses were valuable in
decreasing morbidity and mortality among soldiers. Nightingale had revolutionary ideas about
hospital sanitation, but these are not credited with her advocacy of using trained nurses.
Early trained nurses were taught to follow the directions of the physician; collegial
relationships were not a part of health care practice in Nightingale’s day.
Nightingale’s views of education were influenced by her opinion on the value of trained
nurses, not the other way around.
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3. A nursing instructor explains to students that the major goal of the Society of Superintendents
of Training Schools for Nurses of the United States and Canada was to
a. improve working conditions for students.
b. obtain legal recognition for the profession.
c. raise and standardize the training of nurses.
d. reverse discrimination in admissions policies.
ANS: C
, The goals of the Society of Superintendents were “to promote fellowship of members, to
establish and maintain a universal standard of training, and to further the best interests of the
nursing profession.” Students were expected to work in apprenticeships during their education
in the hospital-based programs in existence at the time.
Obtaining legal recognition for nurses was the goal of the Nurses’ Associated Alumnae of the
United States and Canada, later renamed the American Nurses Association.
Discrimination in nursing existed well into the civil rights era and beyond, with men and
women of color routinely being banned from admission and employment.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Understand REF: 4
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4. Today’s nurse understands that legal recognition for nurses was imperative to
a. allow nurses to expand beyond the hospital setting.
b. lobby for better wages and working conditions.
c. protect the public from untrained nurses.
d. provide hospitals with accreditation requirements.
ANS: C
The goal of the Nurses’ Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada (renamed the
American Nurses Association in 1912) was to protect the public from untrained nurses by
securing legal recognition for trained nurses.
Graduate nurses predominantly worked as private duty nurses up through the early 20th
century.
Wages remained low, and working conditions remained long and arduous in hospitals (and
seasonal for private duty nurses) until hospitals began hiring more graduate nurses in the
1930s.
Hospital accreditation is a recent phenomenon, unattached to legal recognition for nurses.
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5. Which patient would most likely have been cared for in a hospital in the 19th to early 20th
century?
a. Dying patient
b. Contagious patient
c. Homeless patient
d. Woman in labor
ANS: C
Hospitals were considered places for people who had no one else to care for them.
Most patients were cared for in their homes. A dying patient probably would have been cared
for at home.
A patient with a communicable illness would have probably been confined to his or her home.
Women in labor typically had their children at home.
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6. Lillian Wald’s contribution to nursing can best be described as the
a. creation of community health nursing.
, b. development of college-based nursing schools.
c. establishment of the Navy Nurse Corps.
d. foundation of maternal-child nursing.
ANS: A
Wald responded to the changing social conditions in the late 1800s by establishing the Henry
Street Settlement and Henry Street Visiting Nurse Services in response to the horrendous
health conditions she witnessed in New York City.
Wald was not involved in establishing college-based nursing programs.
Wald was not involved in establishing the Navy Nurse Corps.
Wald was not involved in establishing maternal-child nursing as a specialty, although she did
care for many new mothers and their infants as part of her community nursing role.
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7. Which event eventually led to the creation of military nursing?
a. American Civil War
b. Spanish-American War
c. World War I
d. World War II
ANS: B
During the Spanish-American War, trained nurses cared for soldiers suffering from yellow
fever. This convinced the military and Congress of the need for qualified nurses and set the
stage for the eventual creation of the Army Nurse Corps in 1901 and the Navy Nurse Corps in
1908.
During the Civil War, both sides wanted women to care for injured and ill soldiers, but these
women were mostly untrained volunteers from the middle and upper classes.
World War I occurred after the creation of the Army Nurse Corps and the Navy Nurse Corps.
World War II occurred after the creation of the Army Nurse Corps and the Navy Nurse Corps.
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8. A faculty nurse explaining the stratification in nursing roles seen today tells students that the
most important event leading to this development was
a.desegregation in nursing.
b.limited nursing opportunities.
c.the Korean conflict.
d.World War II.
ANS: D
The United States’ involvement in World War II dramatically increased the demand for trained
nurses. To help fill this need, the American Red Cross and the Office of Civilian Defense co-
established a program to train nurse aides. The success of the program encouraged hospitals to
use employees with various levels of skill.
Desegregation in nursing did come about in the same era as stratification, but it was not
instrumental in creating this differentiated practice.
Nursing opportunities were increasing throughout the 20th century.
Role stratification was already entrenched by the Korean conflict.
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