T1: History of Public Health Nursing Flashcards
Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601
guaranteed assistance for poor, blind, and “lame” individuals
Public Health Service (PHS)
established in 1798 as the Marine Hospital Service; provided health care for merchant seamen and protected seacoast cities from epidemics.
Shattuck Report
this report called for major innovations; the establishment of a state health department and local health boards in every town; sanitary surveys and collection of vital statistics; environmental sanitation; food, drug, and communicable disease control; well-childcare; health education; tobacco and alcohol control; town planning; and the teaching of preventive medicine in medical schools.
Florence Nightingale
nurse in the Crimean War, sanitation and improved environmental conditions; founder of modern nursing
William Rathbone
founded first district nursing association in Liverpool, England
Based on the care William Rathbone’s wife received from a Nightingale trained nurse…
he wanted to offer similar care to those in poor areas who were unable to afford private nurses
Settlement Houses
neighborhood centers that became hubs for health care, education and social welfare programs
Lillian Wald
Founder of public health nursing
Lillian Wald established the
Henry Street Settlement
National Organization for Public Health Nursing (NOPHN)
the goal was to “improve the educational and services standard of the public health nurse and promote public understanding and respect for her work.”
first president of the National Organization for Public Health Nursing (NOPHN)
Lillian Wald
American Red Cross
Clara Barton; through its Rural Nursing Service, initiated home nursing care in areas outside larger cities
first occupational health nurse
Ada Mayo Stewart
first United States school nurse
Lina Rodgers
who developed Frontier Nursing Service
Mary Brekinridge
Frontier Nursing Service
nurse traveled by mule and horseback to isolated rural clients
Bessie Hawes
received the first scholarship from the National Health Circle for Colored People (first colored nurse)
National League for Nursing (NLN) recommended
establishing basic nursing preparation colleges and universities
medicare
A federal program of health insurance for persons 65 years of age and older
Medicaid
A federal and state assistance program that pays for health care services for people who cannot afford them. (diabled)
Healthy people proposed…
a national strategy to improve significantly the health of Americans by preventing or delaying the onset of major chronic illnesses, injuries, and infectious diseases.
3 major life events in a person’s life
the day you were born, someone gets sick, and death
Public Health Nursing
emphasizes the promotion of health, the prevention of disease and disability, and the creation of conditions in which all people can be healthy
what type of prevention is the focus in public health nursing
primary