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Nurs 314 study guide questions with correct answersHow was nursing work carried out in the Middle Ages? Correct Answer-
nursing role was carried out by deaconesses by early christian church
Summarize the work of Florence Nightingale Correct Answer-made
hospitals cleaner places. She showed that trained nurses and clean
hospitals helped sick people get better. She was the founder of modern
nursing.
Dorthea Dix Correct Answer-created the first generation of American
mental asylums
Isabel Hampton Robb Correct Answer-first Superintendent of Nurses/
helped to found National League for Nursing, the International Council
of Nurses, and the American Nurses Association.
Margaret Sanger Correct Answer-birth control movement/ sex educator
Lillian Wald Correct Answer-humanitarian/ human rights and was the
founder of American community nursing
Clara Barton Correct Answer-American Red Cross
Breckinridge Correct Answer-American nurse-midwife and the founder
of the Frontier Nursing Service
, Describe nursing training programs in the late 1800's and early 1900's,
focusing on characteristics of student nurses and activities of graduate
nurses. Correct Answer-with Nightingale's standard, hospital situation
got better and nursing education improved. even women from the
wealthy upper classes started enrolling at the training school. Thanks to
Nightingale, nursing was no longer frowned upon by the upper classes;
it had, in fact, come to be viewed as an honorable vocation.
What was the primary purpose of hospitals in the United States during
the 1600's, 1700's and 1800's? Why were these called pesthouses?
Correct Answer-Used to house the poor and downtrodden/ because it
was created to care for clients with contagious disease; their primary
purpose was to protect the public at large rather than patient
Who staffed these hospitals, taking on nursing roles early 18? Correct
Answer-Uneducated women, in order to avoid jail time for doing
prostitution or stealing.
Why is this called the "Dark Period of Nursing"? Correct Answer-From
17th century - 19th century • Also called the Period of Reformation until
the American Civil War • Hospitals were closed • Nursing were the
works of the least desirable people (criminals, prostitutes, drunkards,
slaves, and opportunists) • Nurses were uneducated, filthy, harsh, ill-fed,
overworked • Mass exodus for nurses • The American Civil War was led
by Martin Luther, the war was a religious upheaval that resulted to the
destruction in the unity of Christians. • The conflict swept everything
connected to Roman Catholicism in schools, orphanages, and hospitals
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