Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

FUNDA > HISTORY OF NURSING > Flashcards

HISTORY OF NURSING Flashcards

1
Q

Instinctive or Untaught largely based on common sense based on effects of past experience, not based on scientific training or
formal education.

A

INTUITIVE NURSING

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Nursing was a function that belonged to women, especially in nomadic tribes.

A

WOMEN

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Believed as an Evil Invasion, Voodoo, or Black Magic

A

ILLNESS

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Witch Doctor/Medicine Man

(Has White Magic) (Healing Power)

A

SHAMAN

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Hole drilled in skull via rock or stone without
anesthesia

A

Trephination

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Roots of western civilization

★ Birthplace of Judaism, Christianity, and
Mohammedanism

A

NURSING IN THE EAST

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Metropolis of the near east

King Hammurabi - Ruler from 1945 B.C to 1902
B.C

A

BABYLONIA

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Provided laws that covered every facet of
babylonian life including medical practice

A

CODE OF HAMURABI

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Embalming was introduced

★ Also known as mummification

A

EGYPT

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

This country Strongly believes in spirits and demons (Prohibition dissection of the dead human body)

A

CHINA

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Prescribed methods for treating wounds,
infection and muscular afflictions.

★ Study of the action of drugs on healthy humans.

A

Materia Medica (Pharmacology)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Men of medicine built hospitals
● Practice intuitive form of asepsis

A

INDIA

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

It is the absence of bacteria, viruses, and
other microorganisms.

A

ASEPSIS

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Made a list of functions and qualifications of
nurses.

A

SUSHURUTU/ SUSRUTA

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

are described as a combination of pharmacists, masseurs, physical therapists and cooks.

A

PRIEST-NURSES

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Contributed to the decline of medical practice when the religion itself fell in this era.

A

BUDDHISM

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

Nursing was task of untrained slave

● Women were considered inferior to men.

A

GREECE

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

Who is the Father of Medicine in Greek Mythology

A

Aesculapius

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Symbol of identity of medical profession
today.
(Composed of the staff travelers intertwined with 2 serpents)

A

CADUCEUS

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

Father of Medicine in Reality

A

HIPPOCRATES

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

Was given the title father of medicine due to his notable contributions to medical practice.

A

HIPPOCRATES

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

In this era, Illness was considered a sign of
weakness.

A

ROME

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

Beginning of Organized Nursing
➔ Built hospitals were staffed by religious orders who
dedicated their lives to the care of the patients
★ Period of “On-the-job training”

A

APPRENTICE NURSING

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

Considered as “Holy Wars” during which the christian soldiers fought to recapture the holy land from the muslims.

A

CRUSADERS

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
Q

Found in Rhodes, Malta

A

KNIGHTS OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM

26
Q

Fought in the battlefield and after every fight would retire to nurse the wounded.

A

TEUTONIC KNIGHTS

27
Q

Established hospitals primarily for nursing of the lepers

A

KNIGHTS OF SAINT LAZARUS

28
Q

● Founded in 1384
● Established the Alexian Brothers Hospital School
of Nursing in Chicago
- Largest school of nursing under religious
auspices. exclusively for men in the U.S
● Closed in 1969

A

ALEXIAN BROTHERS

29
Q

Founded by queens, princesses, and other royal ladies.

A

RELIGIOUS NURSING ORDERS

30
Q

Rise of Secular Orders

A

Augustinians
- Poor Clares
- Beguines
- Benedictines
- Ursulines
- Tertiaries

31
Q

It is where Augustinian nurses nursed
patients

A

HOTEL DE DIEU

32
Q

Arose in the 12th to 16th Century

A

NURSING SAINTS

33
Q

Founder of the 2nd order of St. Francis of Assisi

● Took care of the sick particularly the lepers in the
convent of San Damiano

A

ST. CLAIR

34
Q

The first to be called “Lady with a lamp”
before Florence Nightingale.

A

ST. CATHERINE OF SIENNA

35
Q

Organized the works of charity to have directions

A

VINCENT DE PAUL

36
Q

an organization of women

A

LA CHARITE

37
Q

Founder of the “The Community of the Sisters Charity” a charity dedicated to serving God in caring for the sick, the poor, the orphaned, and the
widowed.

A

VINCENT DE PAUL

38
Q

She was also known as de MARILLAC
● Co-foundress and the first superior of the charity.

A

LOUISE DE GRAS

39
Q

Head of the Reformation Movement
- Initiated significant changes in the church and
society to counteract some abuses

A

MARTIN LUTHER

40
Q

An era that gave arise to some violent conflicts
● Contributed to the rise of Protestantism.

A

THE REFORMATION

41
Q

Focused on the peaceful mean of change through
prayers and witnessing to a life of sacrifice
● A movement that encouraged a virtuous Christian life but discouraged violent conflicts.

A

THE COUNTER-REFORMATION

42
Q

Also known as “Rebirth”
● Care of the sick was entrusted to those who were
proven guilty of a crime of theft.

A

RENAISSANCE

43
Q

Also known as the dark nursing period

A

RENAISSANCE

44
Q

Writer who depicted the inhuman situation of the
caretakers

A

CHARLES DICKENS

45
Q

1st organized training school for nurses

A

DEACONESS SCHOOL OF NURSING

46
Q

It was where Florence Nightingale received some of her training and inspiration for the establishment of
a school of nursing.

A

DEACONESS SCHOOL OF NURSING

47
Q

First laywoman who worked as a nurse on the north american continent

A

JEANNE MANCE

48
Q

American nurse who founded the Sisters of
Charity of Emmetsburg in Maryland in 1908

A

ELIZABETH SETON

49
Q

Not a nurse but appointed Superintendent of
Female Volunteer nurses to take care of the wounded for US government

A

DOROTHEA LYNDE DIX

50
Q

Founder of the American Red Cross

A

CLARA BARTON

51
Q

OTHER VOLUNTEERS DURING THE PRE-CIVIL WAR

A

● Louisa May Alcott - Author
● Walt Whitman - Poet
● Mary Ann Bickerdyke - Humanitarian

52
Q

Recognized as the Mother of Nursing

A

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

53
Q

Believed to be the origin of nurse’s pin

A

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE BROOCH

54
Q

It is designed by Prince Albert (Husband of Queen
Victoria of England)

(Bears the word “Crimea” and “Blessed are
the merciful”)

A

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE BROOCH

55
Q

Promotes professionalism, cleanliness, and pride.

A

NURSES UNIFORM

56
Q

Symbolizes the saying “what people wear in the heads can set them apart”

A

NURSES THE CAP

57
Q

Isabel Hampton Robb - 1st Principal of this hospital

A

JOHN HOPKINS HOSPITAL SCHOOL OF NURSING

58
Q
  • appointed OR supervisor, had
    dermatitis
    ★ She was the first to wear gloves while working
    as an operating room nurse.
A

CAROLINE HAMPTON

59
Q

Designed the first rubber gloves

A

DR. WILLIAM HALSTEAD

60
Q

Engaged in medical research on yellow fever and malaria

A

CLARA LOUISE MAAS

61
Q

also helped organize and develop both groups

A

ISABEL H. ROBB

62
Q
A

FUNDA (4 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions