NUFT 202 Exam 1 Practice Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
nurses - ✔️✔️respond to needs of patients and actively participate in determining best
practice
why is knowledge of the history of nursing profession important? - ✔️✔️increases your
ability to understand the social and intellectual origins of the discipline
florence nightingale (1860) - ✔️✔️• established the first nursing philosophy based on
health maintenance and restoration
• developed the first organized program for training nurses
• improved sanitation in battlefield hospitals
• practices remain a basic part of nursing today
• believed the role of nurses was to help the body recover, then remain free from
disease
• demonstrated effectiveness of fresh air, hygiene and nutrition
clara barton - ✔️✔️• founder of american red cross
• tended soldiers on battlefields, cleansing wounds, meeting basic needs and comforting
them in death
mother bickerdyke - ✔️✔️union nurse who organized ambulance services and walked
abandoned battlefields looking for wounded soldiers
harriet tubman - ✔️✔️started the underground railroad movement to free slaves an
worked as a union army nurse
lilian wald and mary brewster (1893) - ✔️✔️increased community nursing and opened
henry street settlement which focused on the health needs of poor people who lived in
tenements in NYC
mary adelaide nutting - ✔️✔️• first nursing professor in 1906
• instrumental in moving nursing education into universities
20th century nursing - ✔️✔️movement toward scientific research-based practice and
define body of knowledge
21st century nursing - ✔️✔️• changes in curriculum
• advances in technology and informatics
• new programs address current health concerns
• leadership role in developing standards and policies
compassion fatigue - ✔️✔️• a state of burnout and secondary traumatic stress that occurs
without warning and often results from giving high levels of energy and compassion
over a prolonger period to those who are suffering (often without experiencing improved
patient outcomes)
• impacted the health and wellness of nurses and quality of care provided to patients
• may contribute to lateral violence
changes in society that lead to changes in nursing - ✔️✔️affordable care act, rising health
care costs, demographic changes, and medically underserved
affordable care act (ACA) - ✔️✔️• affects how health care is paid for and delivered
• impacts how and where nursing care is provided
rising health care costs - ✔️✔️• presents challenges to nursing profession, consumer, and
health care delivery system
• nurses are responsible for providing patients with best-quality care in efficient and
economically sound manner
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