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Nursing Exam 1Where were the original practice settings for nursing? - ANS-Homes and communities
What groups of people were the first to practice nursing? - ANS-Religious groups
What is currently regarded as the primary place of employment for nurses? -
ANS-Hospitals
What is the second most common place of employment for nurses? - ANS-Ambulatory
care
What is ambulatory care? - ANS-clinic or outpatient care
Describe the demographic profile of registered nurses today. - ANS-Most nurses are
caucasian females around the age of 31. Very few hispanics and males. Males more
likely to obtain a BSN than women. Most nurses are ADN prepared.
Recognize the wide range of settings in which today's registered nurses practice. -
ANS-Nurses can practice in hospitals (primary setting), ambulatory care (secondary
setting), communities, medical clinics, occupational health, armed services, schools,
palliative/ hospice, and faith/parish nursing.
Consider nursing roles in various practice settings - ANS-*Hospitals- BSN preferred:
allows for specialization
*Magnet hospitals - evidence based practice: nurse opinions matter
*Communities - BSN required: ambulatory clinics, health department, hospices, homes
*Medical Clinics - health assessment, teaching, immunizations, and reviewing
medications
*Occupational - Health assessment and education, workplace policies - Motivates
employees to have healthy lifestyle
*Armed Services - BSN required: Military and civilian nursing
*School Nursing - BSN required: keeps health records, educates kids and families,
provide care for minor injuries, care for special needs
*Palliative/Hospice - Improve quality of life, prevent/relieve suffering, support
*Faith/Parish nursing - Holistic approach, faith is central, practice independently
, compare and contrast the types of educational preparation in nursing education as they
related to the role of the professional nurse - ANS-Entry level into practice = NCLEX
4 year ed. - BSN
2 year ed. - ADN
3 year ed. - Diploma
Identify the social, political, and economic factors and trends that influenced the
development of professional nursing in the US. - ANS-social - beliefs such as nurses
being female and submissive have affected the role of a nurse. Wars have caused a
need for nurses.
political - wars again. New laws such as the Hill- Burton act (mid 1900's) created a need
for nurses due to the increase of hospitals.
Social Security Act also created a need for nurses as more people were able to receive
help for their ailments.
economic - Great Depression forced nurses out of their jobs as personal care nurses
and into low paying hospital jobs
Describe the influence of Florence Nightingale on the development of the nursing
profession. - ANS-Florence used statistics on morbidity and mortality to reform British
medical system. Wrote Notes on Nursing: What it is and what it is not, and established
the first nursing training school. Nightingale also focused on the cleanliness of one's
surroundings.
Identify nursing leaders and their significance to nursing - ANS-Nightingale- used stats
to prove keeping clean helps healing. First nursing school.
Seacole - used own funds to care for soldiers
Bickerdyke - cleanliness "order out of chaos"
Barton - "angel of the battlefield" set up field hospitals
Robb- protested the lack of uniformity in nursing and founded American Nurses
Association.
Wald and Dock - Henry Street Settlement
Scales & Tyler - Stillman House
describe the development of schools of nursing - ANS-*Nightingale - established first
training school (mid 1860's)
*Later inspired the opening of the Bellevue Training School for nurses in NY, the
Connecticut Training School for nurses in New Haven, and the Boston Training school
for nurses (1870's)
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