Week 1: History/Imagines of Nursing

Question 1

A nurse who displays self-less concern for others is exhibiting one of the following?

A. Accountability
B. Altruism
C. Responsibility
D. Autonomy

Answer 1

Altruism

Question 2

In early civilization women were _______________

Answer 2

hired by privileged families to care for the sick and to assist with childbirth; Shiphrah and Puah were midwives who saved the baby Moses

Question 3

___________ carried a staff intertwined with serpents, representing wisdom and immorality

Answer 3

Aesclepius

Question 4

____________→ father of medicine

Answer 4

Hippocrates

Question 5

In early civilization in India public hospitals were staffed by ______

Answer 5

males nurses

Question 6

The first military hospital was in Europe in Rome.

Military hospitals were exclusively ______

Answer 6

men who, developed to care for the injured

Question 7

During the first bubonic plague, the ______ took care of people

Answer 7

Catholic church: Nuns, and monks cared for the bulk of sick or orphaned

Question 8

In the middle age, wives of emperors and other wealthy women could become nurses: mostly midwives. seen as_______

Answer 8

Seen as charitable works

Question 9

_________ were orders during Crusades to be nurses

Answer 9

Male Military

Question 10

The cross used during the _______became a badge and forerunner for the design of many health care emblems and nursing pins.

Answer 10

Crusades

Question 11

During the dark ages of nursing ______

Answer 11

Nursing no longer appealed to women of high social status; care of the sick was regulated to common women who wer perceived as no better than prisoners, thieves, alcoholics, and prostitutes
Reformation decreased availability of monks & nuns who cared for sick in middle ages

Question 12

In the _______Nursing was considered an undesirable job with poor pay, long hours, and strenuous work that was considered menial.

Answer 12

renaissance period

Question 13

Religious nursing orders grew out of great concern for _______

Answer 13

social welfare

Question 14

Sisters of Charity—recruited _______ for nurse training, developed educational programs and cared for abandoned children. For centuries to follow nurse training came from religious orders.

Answer 14

young women

Question 15

In _____ Florence Nightingale attended Kaiserswerth to train as a nurse

Answer 15

1851

Question 16

In 1854 Florence nightingale

Answer 16

lead nurses in the Crimean War

Question 17

________ ended military men being nurses

Answer 17

Florence Nightingale

Question 18

Nightingale required her nurses to be _______

Answer 18

white women who is single

Question 19

___________ was a Black nurse from Jamaica who played a major role in the Crimean War
Was denied the opportunity to join Nightingale’s nursing brigade because she was Black
Opened a lodging house with her own money to care for sick and wounded soldiers
Contributed to control of the cholera epidemic through extensive knowledge in tropical medicine
Honored by the Jamaican government and the British Commonwealth with a medal for saving the lives of countless sick and wounded soldiers

Answer 19

Mary Seacole

Question 20

white women were accepted before

Answer 20

black men and black women

Question 21

______ was the founder of prof nursing. Introduced principles of asepsis and infection control, a system for transcribing physician’s orders, and a system to maintain patient records

Answer 21

Florence Nightingale

Question 22

In the civil war period there were _____ nurses that served in the war

Answer 22

2,000

Question 23

__________ A teacher appointed to organize military hospitals, provide trained nurses, and disperse supplies; she received no official status and no salary for this position
- she was much into mental health

Answer 23

Dorothea Dix

Question 24

_____was a teacher originally, then a social reformer. Age 39 helped in civil war as superintendent of nurses in the army, no formal nurse training available yet. Also founded asylums for the indigent and mentally ill.

Answer 24

Dorthea Dix

Question 25

_______ cared for wounded soldiers and conducted an “underground railroad” to lead slaves to freedom

Answer 25

Harriet Tubman

Question 26

________, known for her abolitionist efforts, as well as her nursing efforts, was an advocate of clean and sanitary conditions so patients could heal

Answer 26

Sojourner Truth

Question 27

_____ although hired in the laundry, worked full time as a nurse on the battlefront with no pay or pension; not considered an official Union Army nurse

Answer 27

Susie King Taylor

Question 28

_______ operated a war relief program; credited with founding the American Red Cross in 1882

Answer 28

Clara Barton

Question 29

Founder of the red cross is

Answer 29

Clara Barton

Question 30

_____ authored detailed account of her experience as a volunteer nurse during the war for a newspaper publication entitled Hospital Sketches

Answer 30

Louisa May Alcott

Question 31

The US firest trained nurse graduate was _____, who graduated in____

Answer 31

Linda Richards in 1873

Question 32

Trained nurses had higher ____

Answer 32

social status

Question 33

Linda Richards graduated in

Answer 33

1873 in Boston

Question 34

established the first school of nursing for Black women at the Atlanta Baptist Seminary, now known as ______

Answer 34

Spelman College

**think Sabrina Spellman was separated from the humans and witches

Question 35

States started to pass legislation requiring “nursing registration” in _____

Answer 35

1910 (after WWI)

Question 36

in 1910 ____

Answer 36

Required entry level for nursing students was upgraded to high school graduate
NEEDED more education to be a nurse

Question 37

____ was the founder of the lower east side tenements of NYC (helped with basis public health nursing)

Answer 37

Lillian Wald

Question 38

___________established the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) in 1925 in rural Kentucky to assist disadvantaged women and children; documented the impact of nursing services on improving the health of communities; well known for midwifery services

Answer 38

Mary Breckinridge

Question 39

In _____, Yale first modern day BSN with 4 years college

Answer 39

1920

Question 40

Goldmark report of 1923

Answer 40

advocated university education for nurses and argued that public health nursing must include training in basic hospital nursing.

Question 41

The first BSN program was at yale in _____

Answer 41

1923

Question 42

______ was the first legislation to assist special populations and provide public health nurses with resources to promote the health and well-being of women, infants, and children. (Combat high infant mortality rates)

Answer 42

Sheppard-Towner Act (1921)

Question 43

The Great Depression nurses were forced to

Answer 43

join the ranks of the unemployed

Question 44

_______ Act of 1943—first instance of federal funding to support nurse training
Need to help people finically become a nurs

Answer 44

Nurse Training

Question 45

What act helped ppl finicially become a nurse?

Answer 45

Nurse Training Act of 1943

Question 46

In 1945 _____ helped changed the armed forces nurses corp to allow black nruses

Answer 46

Mabel Keaton Staupers

Question 47

During WWII nursing and teaching became

Answer 47

the main profession outside the home for women

Question 48

By ______, all states had adopted the State Board Test Pool (NXLEC)

Answer 48

1950

Question 49

______provided funding to construct hospitals; created a hospital construction boom that increased the demand for professional nurses

Answer 49

Hill-Burton Act in 1960

Question 50

In 1960_____ and ____ acts were made to fund healthcare

Answer 50

Medicaid and Medicare

Question 51

_______is a federal program that provides health coverage if you are 65+ or under 65 and have a disability, no matter your income.

Answer 51

Medicare

Question 52

______ is a state and federal program that provides health coverage if you have a very low income.

Answer 52

Medicaid

Question 53

____ caused Hospital occupancy increased, resulting in an increased need for hospital nurses

Answer 53

Medicare

Question 54

In 1960s were nurses poorly paid?

Answer 54

yes

Question 55

Women’s liberation movement was in _____

Answer 55

1970s

Question 56

Nurse practitioners began to be recognized as viable and cost effective providers of comprehensive health service in _____

Answer 56

1970

Question 57

In 1970 due to the nursing movement there were and increasing number of ____ in the nursing field

Answer 57

men

Question 58

Nursing in 1950 was a

Answer 58

tight job market

Question 59

DIagnosis related gorup sytem (DRG):

Answer 59

standardized upfront payment encourages cost containment. Example: c section or appendectomy. Any complication not covered.

Discharge fast = earn a profit
Getting an infection in hospital = lost money

Question 60

In 1980s there was an increasing number of homeless and the ____

Answer 60

AIDS pandemic occured

Question 61

In 1980 there was an increased in homeless due to _______

Answer 61

• cutting RN staff and reducing patient’s length of stay
• cutting psych hospitals
• drug problem that began in the 70s

Question 62

In the late 1980s enrollment in nursing prgrams _______

Answer 62

decreased

Question 63

_______ were implemented to provide prospective payment for hospital services on the basis of the patient’s admitting dx and thereby to reduce the overall cost to Medicare

**hospital wont keep patients there longer than they have to

Answer 63

Diagnosis-related group system (DRG)

Question 64

Nursing research needed to be focused on substantive information to guide practice in 1980s. This let to hospitals to STOP _____ to help with budgeting

Answer 64

cutting nurses

Question 65

In the 1900s the AIDS epidemic influenced the need for _______

Answer 65

infection control
universal precautions
limited exposure to hazardous material

Question 66

__________ radically changed the process for infection control among health care workers in health care institutions across the nation.

• Recapping needles
• wearing latex gloves
• universal precations

Answer 66

AIDS epidemic

Question 67

Who is the Alexian brothers?

Answer 67

Male Religious Order
Hospitals in Europe and one in US
Trained religious and secular men as nurses
Men caring for men
Men ran entire hospital

Question 68

________ is the stereotype of untrained, incompetent nurses of early Victorian Era

Answer 68

Sairey Gamp

Question 69

Sairey Gamp was an ____

Answer 69

alcoholic, inept and cruel nurse who profited from her patients

Question 70

Opposite of __________ = Florence Nightingale: portrayed as a heroine by Henry Longfellow

Answer 70

Sairy Gamp

Question 71

________ was a British nurse executed in WW1 by Germans in occupied Belgium

• she was murdered. Then her death was as used of propaganda to urger men to become soldiers
• The germans killed her in Belgium

Answer 71

Edith Cavell

Question 72

Was a nurse and spy that was killed by the germans

Answer 72

Edith Cavell

Question 73

Was the founder of the first nursing school in Belgium and was executed by the germans

Answer 73

Edith Cavel

Question 74

In 1938, a tall, white, imposing statue called, the _________ was placed in Arlington National cemetery to honor military nurses

Answer 74

Spirit of Nursing

Question 75

Gallup Polls have ranked nurses ______ for having honesty and ethics every year since 1999 except 2001 when fireman were ranked first

Answer 75

First!!

Question 76

Who was the first black nurse to graduation from a nursing school?

Answer 76

Mary Eliza

Question 77

Again in 2021 _________ showed nurses were at the top of the most trusted list and considered the most honest (20th year in a row).

Answer 77

Gallup poll

Question 78

Gallup Polls have ranked nurses first for having honesty and ethics every year since 1999 except __________when fireman were ranked first

Answer 78

2001