Chapter 1 Flashcards
He discovered an effective method of vaccination against the smallpox virus.
Louis Pasteur
He was a physician who set out to decrease the mortality resulting from infection after surgery.
Joseph Lister
This physician is know for his research on anthrax. After identifying the organism that caused cholera, he also demonstrated its transmission by water, food and clothing.
Robert Koch
He proved the germ theory, that is that germs are the causes of infectious diseases.
Edwin Klebs
He founded the sisters of Charity in France, an order of nuns who traveled from home to home visiting the sick. He believed that for family members to go to the hospital was disruptive to family life and that taking nursing services to the home enabled health to be restored more effectively.
Saint Vincent de Paul
Who led the reformation in 1517?
Martin Luther
Education for girls, which had been provided by the nuns in religious schools, was lost. Because of the elimination of hospitals and schools, there was no one to pass on knowledge about caring for the sick. Which period was this?
The dark period of nursing
Hospitals called pest houses were created to care for clients with contagious diseases; what was their primary purpose?
To protect the public at large, rather than to treat and care for the clients.
The first true hospital in the new colonies, was called Pennsylvania hospital. By who’s recommendation?
Benjamin Franklin
He became a major figure in the development of the field of public health in Great Britain by drawing attention to the cost of the unsanitary conditions that shortened the life span of the laboring class.
Edwin Chadwick
What report found that more than half the children of labor class worker died by age 5, indicating poor living conditions that affected the health of the most vulnerable. ?
Chadwick Report
What report called for services for well-child care, school age children’s health, immunizations, mental health, health education for all, all health planning?
Shattuck Report
He was credited to being the first epidemiologist. He demonstrated that cholera rates were linked with water pump use in London. He formed the opinion that diarrhea, unwashed hands, and shared food somehow played a large part in spreading the disease.
John Snow
She reformed military health care in the Crimean War and used her political savvy to forever change the way society views the health of the vulnerable, the poor, and the forgotten.
Florence Nightingale
Nightingale never accepted the germ theory, but she demanded 5 other major components of sanitation. What are they?
- Clean dressings
- Clean bedding
- Well cooked, edible, and appealing food
- Proper sanitation
- Fresh air
What African nurse from Jamaica offered her services to Nightingale after hearing of the need in Scutari. What did she do for the British military?
Mary Grant Seacole. She set up an inn with her own money that provided food and lodging for soldiers and their families near Scutari.
What was the name of the first school of nursing?
Nightingale school of Nursing at St. Thomas.
Who was the first to establish the first visiting nursing service?
William Rathbone
What report stated: Nursing and nursing education in the United States, was released in 1922 and advocated the establishment of university schools of nursing to train nursing leaders?
Goldmark report
What report was critical of the quality and structure of nursing schools in the US?
Brown Report or nursing for the future, authored by Ester Lucille Brown.
Who founded the Nurses’ Associated Alumnae, which officially became known as the American Nurses Association?
Isabel Hampton Robb
Who became a militant suffragist linking women’s roles as nurses to the emerging women’s movement in the US?
Lavinia Lloyd Dock
Mary Adelaide Nutting, Lavinia L. Dock, Sophia Palmers, and Mary E. Davis were instrumental in developing what?
The first nursing journal, the American Journal of Nursing (AJN).
Who worked as a nurse with immigrant families and devoted her life to teach women about birth control. She also found Planned parenthood of America.
Margaret Sanger
Who was the dean of the Army school of nursing, and prepared the nurses for war as well as home nursing and hygiene nursing through the Red Cross?
Annie Goodrich
Who was credited with creating the title “public heath nurse”?
Lillian Wald
Who established the Henry Street Settlement?
Mary Brewster and Lilian Wald
The Henry Street Settlement addressed the health need of the population by 3 major things. What were they?
Social, economic and environmental determinants of health.
Lilian Wald hired what African American nurse?
Elizabeth Tyler
What nurse demonstrated her commitment to racial and cultural diversity by employing 25 African American nurses?
Lilian Wald
Who was considered the first African American public health nurse?
Jessie sleet Scales
This Boston schoolteacher, became aware of the horrendous conditions in prisons and mental institutions.
Dorothea Linde Dix
Who became the founder of the American Red Cross?
Clara Barton
What was the first organized midwifery service in the US and by whom was this organization founded by?
Frontier Nursing service and this organization was founded by Mary Breckenridge.
Who took a creative approach to improving maternal and infant health among African American women. She developed a collaborative network of public health nurses and granny midwives in which the nurses implemented training programs for the midwives?
Mary D. Osborne
Who is credited with the founding of the Cadet Nurse Corps due to the severe shortage of nurses on the home front?
Frances Payne Bolton
What act provided funds to increase the construction of new hospitals?
Hill-Burton Act
What does QSEN stand for?
Quality and safety education for nurses
QSEN is directed to develop competencies of future nursing graduates in six key areas. What are they?
- Patient-centered care 2. Evidence-based practice
- Quality improvement 4. Teamwork and collaboration
- Safety 6. Informatics
