Chapter 6 VNC

Question 1

Florence Nightingale

Answer 1

-Considered the founder of modern nursing
-Became an authority on public health and hospitals
-Her practices still appropriate for today’s nurses
-Transformed nursing from a profession for poor women to a noble, respectable occupation

Question 2

International Red Cross

Answer 2

Swiss J. H. Dunant makes rules for caring for those injured in war (1864)
-The treatment of wounded
-Protection of medical personnel and hospitals

Question 3

Emergence of American Nursing Leaders

Answer 3

Improved nursing education, Addressed segregation in nursing education and workplace, Emphasized equal health care for all

Question 4

Linda Richards (1841–1930)

Answer 4

First US trained nurse, Developed system for writing accurate pt reports that became the basis for nursing and hospital record keeping

Question 5

Lavinia Dock (1858–1956)

Answer 5

National League for Nursing, coauthor of History of Nursing with Mary Nutting

Question 6

Mary Adelaide Nutting (1858–1948)

Answer 6

Founded first college—level department of nursing, Instrumental in raising standards of nursing education

Question 7

Isabel Hampton Robb (1860–1910)

Answer 7

Advocated nurses’ rights
-3 yr training program
- 6 day work week
- 8 hr work days
-mandatory licensure

Question 8

Lillian Wald (1867–1940)

Answer 8

Founded public health nursing in the United States which helped to improve access of health care to the underprivileged, Henry Street Settlement that provided free nursing care for the poor on the Lower East Side of NYC

Question 9

Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail (1903–1981)

Answer 9

Montana nurse worked to end abuses in Native American health care system

Question 10

Hildegard Peplau (1909–1999)

Answer 10

“Mother of psychiatric nursing”, Development of theory and practice of psychiatric and mental health nursing,

Question 11

Emergence of Practical Nursing Schools

Answer 11

-Practical nursing as a career began over 115 years ago
-The Ballard School Of Practical Nursing 1897 was the first formal curriculum
-By 1954, there were almost 300 more schools opened in the United States to train practical/vocational nurses, which was greatly influenced by World War II and storages of registered nurses

Question 12

Rise of National Organizations

Answer 12

-National League for Nursing Education 1918
-New York mandates licensure of practical nurses 1938
-National Association for Practical Nurse Education and Service (NAPNES)
Established department of education
Established department of service