N110 Week 1 Flashcards
Name 7 Challenges often faced by Nurses.
Assertiveness Communication Ethical Decision Making Being a “whistleblower” Professional Behavior Conflict Resolution Recognizing Impending Problems
Who?
- Founder of modern nursing
- Lived in Britain: 1820-1910
- Daughter of privileged, aristocratic family
- Stifled by her social position, entered nurse’s training at age 30
- Spurred reform of British Army medical system based on her efforts during Crimean War
- Founded first training school for nurses in London (1860)
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale:
- Demonstrated the value of _____ and infection control procedures
- Honored for her contributions to nursing ____
- Demonstrated the value of __ to affect health care reform
- Established the first nursing ______ in England
- Honored as the founder of professional ____ services, initiated social services.
- Introduced principles of asepsis and infection control, a system for _____ doctor’s orders, and a system to maintain patient _____
- Kept careful stats—documented a decrease in the ____ rate of soldiers from 42% to 2% as a result of health care reforms that emphasized ____ conditions
- aseptic techniques
- research
- political activism
- school
- nursing
- transcribing, records
- death, sanitary
Which war is connected to the origin nursing?
American Civil War
Name 3 nursing leaders that emerged from the Civil War
- Dorothea Dix: Union Superintendent of Women Nurses, champion for mental health
- Mary Ann “Mother” Bickerdyke: Lay nurse
- Clara Barton: Founded American Red Cross
During the civil war, _______ was appointed to organize military hospitals, provide trained nurses, and disperse supplies; she received no official status and no salary for this position
Dorothea Dix
Who was known for/as:
- Copyist in U.S. patent office
- Independently campaigned for supplies for soldiers in the Civil War
- Set-up a make-shift field hospital to care for the wounded and dying
- Known as “Angel of The Battlefield”
- Founded the American Red Cross
Clara Barton
With the need for trained nurses, which 3 women were associated with Union nursing?
Need for Trained Nurses Union nursing Dorothea Dix Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman
Who?
- Early teacher
- Educated women in prison
- Passion for treatment of mentally ill
- Responsible for the development of inpatient hospitals for mentally ill
Dorothea Dix
Who?
- Abolitionist during the Civil War
- Cared for soldiers during the Civil War
- Assist in the freeing of thousands of slaves during the Civil War
Sojourner Truth
Who?
- Moses
- Underground Railroad-Civil War
- Former Slave/Spy
- Served as a nurse and a cook in the Civil War
Harriet Tubman
The Civil War prompted a move toward formal education of nurses and the 1st 3 American schools were modeled after Nightingale’s school and opened in 1873. Where were the first 3 schools?
- Bellevue Training School for Nurses (New York City)
- Connecticut Training School for Nurses (New Haven)
- Boston Training School for Nurses at Massachusetts General Hospital
Who was America’s first trained nurse?
Linda Richards
Who was the 1st black American trained nurse?
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Requirements for early nursing school applicants were based on Victorian stereotypes of female qualities including….
- “Good breeding” and “lady-like behavior”
- Submission to authority
- Sensitivity
- Intelligence
Early discrimination in nurse training impacted which 3 groups?
Men
African Americans
Jewish
