History of Community/Public Health Nursing (PowerPoint Only Module)

Question 1

what was the precursor to public health nursing

Answer 1

district nursing

Question 2

John snow

Answer 2

father of public health

solved a cholera epidemic and figured it was due to contaminated water source

was able to find the source by analyzing data

removed the handle of broad street pump

Question 3

Edward Jenner

Answer 3

father of immunology

smallpox vaccine: first successful vaccine ever to be developed

Question 4

Willian Rathbone

Answer 4

Hired Mary Robinson to care for wife

Realized home visiting to the poor could benefit society, this lead to the development of district nursing

Question 5

Lemuel Shattuck

Answer 5

believed ill health and disability was due to unsanitary conditions

document is a fundamental document of public health

because fodunation of sanitation moevemt which increased life expectancy

known as shattuck report

Question 6

Edwin Chadwick

Answer 6

believed in using science as a means for social improvement

was asked to serve on Royale commission to investigate the effectiveness of poor laws in England

his work lead to poor law amendment act

Question 7

Joseph Lister

Answer 7

Surgeon who introduced new principles of cleanliness which transformed surgical practice

sterile technique

Question 8

Florence Nightingale

Answer 8

prevention of needles, illness, and death

sanitarian

Crimean war and she documented her successes saving lives

prevention of infection and improvement of environmental conditions

opened first school or nursing

friends with rathbone

Question 9

Dorothea Dix

Answer 9

understood the dreadful conditions of prisons and mental hospitals

established first hospital for mentally ill

Question 10

Clara Barton

Answer 10

served during civil war

recognized need for neutral relief society in US that can be activated in times of war

established American Red Cross to provide aid for disaster

Question 11

Lillian Wald

Answer 11

large American cities were crowded and unsanitary, infectious disease was prevalent

education about prevention of infection would reduce illnesses

founder of public health nursing

moved to lower east side

her and Mary Brewster founded Henry street settlement which provided acute and long term care and payment was based on clients ability to pay

Wald and Brewster taught and emphasized preventative care

Henry street because visiting nurses association of NYC

Question 12

Removed the pump handle on the communities water rescource

Answer 12

John Snow

Question 12

Mary Breckinridge

Answer 12

rural healthcare in Kentucky

mountain regions

discovered infant care needs to start before birth

Question 13

Edwin Chadwick

Answer 13

Created reports on sanitation conditions of the laboring populations

Question 14

Who created the smallpox immunization

Answer 14

Edward Jenner

Question 15

Governed healthcare for the poor in England and became a prototype for later US laws

Answer 15

Elizabethan Poor Law (1601) church’s responsibility for relief of the poor

Question 16

Helped decrease men dying in the crimean war

Answer 16

Florence Nightingale

Question 17

T/F: Florence Nightingale used the Coxcomb Charts to direct health policy

Answer 17

True

Question 18

T/F: In the crimean war, more people died in the battlefield than died of diease and battlefield injury

Answer 18

false

Question 19

T/F: in the crimean war, equal amount of people died in the battlefield than died of disease and battlefield injury

Answer 19

true

Question 20

Had improved surgical success with bones when dressings were soaked in acid

Answer 20

Joesph Lister

Question 21

Discovered causative agent for cholera and tuberculosis bacillus

Answer 21

Robert Kock

Question 22

T/F: Louis Pasteur first proposed the existence of germs

Answer 22

true

Question 23

Lillian Wald and Mary Brewster established

Answer 23

District nursing service on lower east side of New York