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founded in 1872 by Clara Barton that today seeks to reduce human suffering through health, safety, and disaster-relief programs

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American Red Cross

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pioneering nurse who established the Frontier Nursing School to deliver community health services to families in rural Kentuckey

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Mary Breckinridge

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a system in public health nursing in which a nurse was assigned to a geographic district in a town to provide a variety of health services for its residents

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district nursing

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an early term for visitng nursing. Begun in Boston, it emphasized health education and care to families

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instructive district nursing

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a life insurance company that provided home nursing services for its beneficiaries and their families from 1909-1952

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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

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a national nursing organization that began as the American Society of superintendents of Training Schools of Nursing and later the National League for Nursing Education. Initially established nurse training standards and promoted collegial relations among nurses

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National League for Nursing (NLN)

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a British philanthropist who founded the first district nursing association in Liverpool. With Florence Nightingale, he advocated for district nursing throughout England

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William Rathborne

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neighborhood centers providing social and health services

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settlement houses

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the first attempt to describe a model approach to the organization of public health

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Shattuck Report

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enacted to protect the health of people and included funds for education and employment of public health nurses

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Social Security Act of 1935

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agencies staffed by nurses who provide care for patients and families most often in the home

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visiting nurse associations

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nurses who provide care wherever the client may be

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visiting nurses

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the first public health nurse in the United States and an influential social reformer. She founded the Henry Street Settlement (later the Visiting Nurse Service of New York)

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Lillian Ward

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Effective planning for the future is built upon

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learning from our predecessors

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part of the appeal of public health nursing has been its

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autonomy of practice and independence in problem solving and decision making, as well as the interdisciplinary nature of the specialty

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guaranteed medical care for the poor, blind, and lame

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Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601

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Colonial Americans established systems of care for the sick, poor, aged, mentally ill, and dependent based on

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the model of the Elizabethan Poor Law

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first hospital in the US

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Pennsylvania Hospital 1751

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After the American Revolution, the threat of disease, particularly yellow fever, led to public interest in establishing

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govt sponsored boards of health

Question 20

establish a state health department and local health boards in every town
conducting sanitary surveys and collecting vital stats
improving environmental sanitation
control of food, drug, and communicable disease
Controlling smoking and the use of alcohol
town planning
teaching preventative medicine in med schools

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Shattuck report 1850 by the Massachusetts Sanitary Commission

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important bc it was the first proposal for modern approach to public health organization

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shattuck report

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Thought that nursing should promote health and prevent illness and emphasized proper nutrition, rest, sanitation, and hygeine

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Nightingale

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initiated home nursing care outside of the larger cities

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American Red Cross

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first school nurse and Henry Street resident

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Lina Rogers

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first president of National Organization for Public Health Nursing

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Lillian Wald

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began the first post grad nursing course in public health at Teachers College

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Mary Adelaide Nutting; American Red Cross provided scholarships to boost attendance

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established in 1872 to facilitate interdisciplinary efforts and promote the practical application of public hygeine

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American Public Health Association

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problems of maternal and child morbidity and mortality spurred the ________ and provided federal matching funds to establish maternal and child health divisions in state health depts

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maternity and infancy act (Sheppard-Towner Act) 1921

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introduced the first nurse-midwives in the us

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mary breckinridge