Chapter 1

Question 1

egypt

Answer 1

• gods
• cleanliness
• nurses were used for kings and aristocrats

Question 2

palestine

Answer 2

• developed mosaic code
• nurses were hebrew preists

Question 3

china

Answer 3

• ying and yang balance
• accupuncture

Question 4

middle ages

Answer 4

• herbs used by women
• med used purging and leechcing
• roman catholic church became big
• CROSS on badges and pins due to church involvement

Question 5

renaissance and reformation

Answer 5

• advancements
• also dark age as church left and so did higher status women
• famine and plagues

Question 6

colonial period

Answer 6

• mexico had the first hospital in north america
• still bad plagues
• crude treatment methods
• first hospital in US = pennsylvania

Question 7

Florence Nightingale

Answer 7

• crimean war
• infection control
• political activism for healthcare reform
• first nursing school in england
• kept detailed statsistics about the effect of health care on soldiers survival rate

Question 8

dorothea dix

Answer 8

• big during civil war
• organized military hospitals

Question 9

sojourner truth

Answer 9

abolitionist
advocate for sanitary conditions

Question 10

susie king taylor

Answer 10

hired in laundry
nurse on battlefront with no pay

Question 11

clara barton

Answer 11

red cross creator

Question 12

louisa may alcott

Answer 12

detailed accounts of nurses for newspapers

Question 13

first school for nursing for black women

Answer 13

• created by john d rockefeller in 1886
• atlanta baptist seminary/ Spelman College

Question 14

1900 to WWI

Answer 14

• 1910 nurse registration and high school graduation required

Question 15

lillian wald

Answer 15

the henry street settlement house in NYC

Question 16

WWI and 1920s

Answer 16

advances
- nurse anesthetists
- red cross became more active
- shepard towner act: assist special populations and provide nurses with resources for public health promotion

Question 17

mary breckinridge

Answer 17

frontier nursing experience

Question 18

great depression

Answer 18

• nurses were unemployed
• New Deal: created to rescue the country and provide medical care
• Social Security Act of 1935: affected health care and provided avenues fro public health nursing

Question 19

WWII

Answer 19

nurses became an essential part of the military and were able to earn a rank

Question 20

post WWII

Answer 20

• Nurse training act of 1943: first federal funding to support nurse training
• Hill Burton Act: provided funding to construct hospitals which increased the need for nurses
• Black nurses weren’t allowed in ANA until 1960s

Question 21

1960s

Answer 21

• community mental health center act of 1963
• medicaid
• medicare - led to hospital occupancy increasing, more need for nurses, hospital site became the usual practice site, home health started

Question 22

1970s

Answer 22

• demand for fair wages
• NPS recognized as cost effective providers

Question 23

1980s

Answer 23

• AIDS
  -homeless population
• DRG was developed to help costs
• hospitals reduced the length of peoples stay
• case management began
• outpatient and ambulatory services began
• managed care plans an HMOs grew

Question 24

21st century

Answer 24

• nurses, nursing schools, and faculty shortages
• covid 19 highlights role of nurses