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NURS 205 Exam 1 questions with correct answers"dark ages" of nursing: what types of people became nurses Correct
Answer-common women, prisoners, theives and drunks
Four Royal Hospitals Correct Answer-St Bartholomew's, St. Thomas',
Brideswell, Bethlem
What was wrong with Bethlem hospital? Correct Answer-disordered
chaos - psychiatric hospital (still operating)
confining people, subjecting mentally ill to torturous are
what were the social conditions during the "dark ages" Correct Answer-
famine, plague, filth, crime
most violent period in western human history
What nursing orders were established during the dark ages out of
concern for social welfare? describe them Correct Answer-sisters of
charity - recruited young women for nurse training, developed
educational programs (on the job training), cared for abandoned children
St. Vincent de Paul (still exists) - established Hospital for the Founding
to care for orphaned and abandoned children
, What was happening during colonial america? (health-wise) Correct
Answer-healthcare was deficient, life expentancy was low, plagues such
as yellow fever and smallpox were a constant threat
physicians were poorly trained - used bleeding and purgatives.
People were getting healthcare at home
First hospital built in the United States Correct Answer-Pennsylvania
Hospital (1751) - through the efforts of Ben Franklin
Why was the colonial period a "recipe for disease"? Correct Answer-
poverty, overcrowding, lack of literacy, no public services, communal
water supply, poor to no knowledge of birth control, no control of
sewage/waste
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) early life Correct Answer-born in the
UK where it was illegal for women to vote and own property
born to a wealthy family
father - william edward nightingale came from banking and mining. had
land and wealth, well educated
mother - frances smith nightingale - came from banking family, high
social status
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