TEST BANK FOR CONTEMPORARY NURSING ISSUES,
TRENDS, & MANAGEMENT 10TH EDITION BY BARBARA
CHERRY, SUSAN R.
JACOB CHAPTER 1-28/COMPLETE GUIDE 2024-2025
,Chapter 01: The Evolution of Professional Nursing
Cherry: Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, and Management, 10th Edition
MULTIPLE RESPONSE
1. What accomplishment is Clara Barton best known for?
a. Becoming the first black public primary caregiver
b. Establishing the Henry Street Settlement
c. Founding the American Red Cross
d. Publicizing the inadequacies of hospice-based nursing schools
SELECT ANSWER:- C
Feedback :->>>The American Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton in 1882, to be of
assistance in efforts to provide supplies to the battlefields and hospices. Barton also sets up a
postwar service to find missing soldiers.
DIF:Knowledge
2. Students are assigned to write to their state leaders about an issue affecting their community.
One student writes about the need among rural community for greater access to acute care
services. Which piece of legislation should the student use as a reference?
a. Social Security Act
b. Hill-Burton Act
c. Sheppard-Towner Act
d. U.S. Civil Service Act
SELECT ANSWER:- B
Feedback :->>>The purpose of the Hill-Burton Act was to provide funding to construct
hospices and to help states in plan for other primary care facilities in accordance with the
needs of communities.
DIF:Knowledge
3. The practice of public health nursing and the Henry Street Settlement are credited to
a. Mary Breckenridge.
b. Mary Seacole.
c. Clara Barton.
d. Lillian Wald.
SELECT ANSWER:- D
Feedback :->>>Lillian Wald, a pioneer in public health nursing, is best known for the
development and establishment of the Henry Street Settlement.
DIF:Knowledge
4. Occupational health nursing features beliefs similar to those of which early nursing pioneer?
a. Lillian Wald
b. Florence Nightingale
c. Clara Barton
d. Mary Seacole
SELECT ANSWER:- A
, Feedback :->>>Lillian Wald was a pioneer in public health nursing, and is best known for the
development and establishment of the first viable practice for public primary caregivers.
DIF:Comprehension
5. What historical event first led to the recognition of the contribution of blacks to nursing?
a. Florence Nightingale‘s acceptance of black caregivers into the first nursing school
b. The contributions of black caregivers at the Pennsylvania Hospice, the first hospice
in America
c. Mary Williams and Frances Rose are listed as caregivers in the City of
Baltimore Directory
d. The work done by wives of wealthy black nobles who carried food and medicine
from house to house during the Middle Ages
SELECT ANSWER:- C
1840—Two black women, Mary Williams and Frances Rose, who founded Nursing Sisters of
the Holy Cross, are listed as caregivers in the City of Baltimore Directory.
DIF:Comprehension
6. World War I contributed to the advancement of primary care by
a. increasing the number of private care hospices and decreasing the role of public
health services.
b. employing a large number of civilians to provide care to returning soldiers through
the Red Cross.
c. introducing specialists in nursing such as caregiver anesthetists.
d. increasing the number of community primary caregivers.
SELECT ANSWER:- C
Feedback :->>>World War I offered caregivers a chance to enter new fields of specialization,
as is seen in the example of caregiver anesthetists, who became part of surgical teams at the
front lines.
DIF:Comprehension
7. What was an original purpose of the Social Security Act of 1935?
a. Increase research that focused on minority groups
b. Provide medical care for chemically impaired persons
c. Ensure primary care for older adults through a national insurance system
d. Decrease the public‘s financial burden by limiting services offered by local health
departments
SELECT ANSWER:- C
Feedback :->>>By providing health insurance for older adults, the Social Security Act of
1935 set the precedent for the passage of the Medicare and Medicaid Acts that followed in
1965, but the act also provided maternal and child welfare services, rehabilitation for the
mentally and physically challenged, medical care for blind individuals and crippled children,
and unemployment benefits.
DIF:Comprehension
, 8. A client asks the caregiver, ―Can you explain the amendment to the Social Security Act
called Title XVIII to me?‖ The caregiver demonstrates an understanding of this legislation
when providing what response?
a. It led to many hospice closings, along with a decrease in acute care hospice–based
nursing care.
b. It provided medical insurance to those younger adults or children who were not
eligible for private insurance because of catastrophic illnesses such as cancer.
c. It provided preventive care for women, infants, and children.
d. It ensured that individuals with end-stage renal disease had primary care insurance.
SELECT ANSWER:- D
Feedback :->>>The Medicare program provides hospice insurance, Part A, and medical
insurance, Part B, to all people aged 65 and older who are eligible to receive Social Security
benefits; people with total, permanent disabilities; and people with end-stage renal disease.
DIF:Comprehension
9. A comparison of nursing in the 1980s to nursing in the 1990s reveals what factor that
contributes to primary care as we know it today?
a. In the 1990s nursing experienced a significant reduction occurred in preventable
diseases caused by unsafe/unhealthy lifestyles.
b. Tuberculosis was the primary concern for nursing in the 1980s, whereas the AIDS
epidemic emerged and was its focus during the 1990s.
c. A decrease in ambulatory services in the 1980s prompted an increase in public
primary caregivers in the 1990s.
d. The demand for advanced practice caregivers increased in the 1980s and the
1990s because of the economy and concern about the health of the nation.
SELECT ANSWER:- D
Feedback :->>>The numbers of advanced caregiver practitioners increased as evidence of their
cost-effectiveness as providers of primary and preventive primary care became established.
DIF:Comprehension
10. Which statement accurately describes the historical perspective of nursing practice?
a. Nursing has existed to meet the needs of populations, individuals, and aggregates
by providing care that is determined by the needs and beliefs of society in different
historical contexts.
b. As men began to become interested in nursing, it changed into a respected
profession based on scientific fact rather than superstition.
c. Nursing has historically accepted individuals from all social and ethnic
backgrounds.
d. The United States has led the way throughout history to advance nursing and
primary care by providing the first hospice and medical school.
SELECT ANSWER:- A
Feedback :->>>Nursing has existed since biblical times to address needs ranging from
contagious diseases in early times to health prevention in the present time, with care based on
health needs and beliefs of the time.
DIF:Comprehension
