Contemporary Nursing Exam 1 Questions With Verified Answers
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Contemporary Nursing
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Contemporary Nursing
Contemporary Nursing Exam 1 Questions
With Verified Answers
National Survey of Registered Nurses - answerDetermines the satisfaction level of RN's with
their job
Clara Barton - answerOperated a war relief program
Credited for starting the American Red Cross
Lillian Wald - answerDeveloped viab...
Contemporary Nursing Exam 1 Questions
With Verified Answers
National Survey of Registered Nurses - answer✔Determines the satisfaction level of RN's with
their job
Clara Barton - answer✔Operated a war relief program
Credited for starting the American Red Cross
Lillian Wald - answer✔Developed viable practice for public health nursing (Henry Street
Settlement)
Provided baby care, health education, disease prevention, treatment for minor illness'
Formed the basis for public health nursing
Developed the first service for occupational health (Metropolitan Life Insurance Company)
Mary Seacole - answer✔Jamaican nurse who played a major role in the Crimean War
She was black
Opened a lodge with her own money to care for soldiers
Contributed in controlling Cholera because of knowledge of medicine
Given a medal by the Jamaican and British governments
Mary Breckenridge - answer✔Established the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) in 1925 for
disadvantaged women and children
Documented the effects of service to show improvement for the health in communities
Started midwifery
Primary purpose of the Social Security Act - answer✔National age-old insurance system
Federal grants to states for maternal and children welfare services
Vocation rehabilitation services for the handicapped
Medical care for crippled children and blind people
An unemployment system
Clara Maas - answer✔Died deliberately after two mosquito bites so she could continue providing
care to soldiers with yellow fever
Affordable Care Act - answer✔2010
Provided insurance to over 32 million previously uninsured Americans
Increased student loan amounts
Provided money for loan repayment for nurse faculty and doctorally prepared nurse faculty
The purpose of the Nurse Reinvestment Act - answer✔2002
Funded $20 million
Nursing scholarships
Public service announcements
Faculty loan cancellation programs
Geriatric training grants
Nurse retention and enhancement grants
Antiquity's image of nursing - answer✔Literature
In the bible, nurses that were midwives in 1900 BC
Victorian image of nursing - answer✔Sairy gump (bad)
Florence Nightingale, seen as heroine (heroic)
20th century image of nursing - answer✔Noted as dedicated, heroic, and caring
1930's image of nursing - answer✔Nurses seen as angel of mercy
1940's image of nursing - answer✔Nurse seen as heroine
On stamps, movies, USS Higbee
Glamorized in novels (appealed to girls)
1960's image of nursing - answer✔Nurses seen as background figures to physicians on TV
On TV they also cruelly punished patients
In reality they were making significant contributions, first practitioner programs began, etc
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