| Term | Definition |
|---|
| became a spy for the union army & worked in DC as a government nurse | Harriet Tubman |
| Dorthea Dix, Superintendant of women nurses for all military hospitals, also: | helped establish 1st hospital for mentally ill & worked to improve treatment of the mentally ill |
| Sojourner Truth | After the Civil war, it was this nurse's misssion to aid the newly freed southern slaves: |
| I, Clara Barton, independently operated a large scale relief operation during the war and: | Volunteered with Massachusetts regiment |
| I Founded the Red Cross in 1882 | Clara Barton |
| Graduating in 1879, I was the first African American graduate nurse in the U.S. | Mary Eliza Mahoney |
| I Cared for British soldiers during the crimean war 1854-1856 & Decreased mortality from 42% to 2% | F. Florence Nightengale |
| I, F. Florence Nightengale, Changed the image of nursing from prisoners, poor, widows, to people with social standing and I: | Wrote "Notes on Nursing" 1859, Founded St. Thomas' Hospital School of Nursing in London 1860, Lady with the lamp |
| Vietnam War | Major advances in medical technology |
| Vietnam War | Most units used & recruiting efforts were made to maintain enough nurses for the wounded |
| In what war did nurses volunteer & instantly become a nurse with no training of any kind? | Civil war |
| Linda Richards | 1st US nursing graduate |
| Mildred Montag | As a post WWII solution to the nursing shortage, I developed the ADN & I taught at a college near Detroit: |
| The Grandfather Clause is there to protect a license to practice & is operated under the 14th ammendment; this ammendment states that: | No state may deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law |
| Defines nursing for a state & is found in the Michigan Public Health Code | The Nurse Practice Act |
| In 1952, I rearched "Community College Education for Nurses" & we are here (in nursing school) thanks to me: | Mildred Montag |
| Cost containment issues & Regulatory Challenges – Access to care are: | Trends for the Future, as well as, Professional Portfolios, & Impact of Societal Influences |
| Environmental Challenges & Lifestyle Challenges are trends for the future as well as: | Demographics - aging population, poverty, cultural diversity, urbanization |
| Aculturation | learning a secondary culture |
| Enculturation | learning one's primary culture |
| Ethnicity | shared affiliation by groups of people related to geographical location, religion, language, etc |
| Ethnocentrism | belief that one's own way of life is better than others |
| Cultural Competence means accepting and respecting cultural differences as well as: | Developing an awareness of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, and environment without letting them have an undue influence on those from other backgrounds. |
| Cultural Competence is the process of developing or acquiring knowledge, skills, and attitudes, to work effectively within the cultural context of: | individuals, a family or a community from a diverse cultural background which may be different from one's own. |
| Having the skills, knowledge, and understanding about another culture that allow the nurse to assess and intervene in a culturally appropriate manner. | Knowledge about a diverse culture means knowing what questions to ask is part of Cultural Competence as well as: |
| Transcultural Nursing | Specialty within nursing focusing on different cultures and subcultures with regard to their caring behavior, nursing care and health-illness values, beliefs and patterns of behaviors. |
| Examples of primary health care (preventation) are well child check-ups, routine physical exams, & prenatal care as well as: | diagnosis and treatment of common acute illnesses, education of community (safety, bike helmets, car seats, drug prevention, B/P screening) |
| Secondary health care (means actual treatment involved, acute care, serious problems) moved much of historically hospital based care to community, examples of this move are: | out-pt surgery, chemo, diagnostics (MRI, angiography), home health care |
| Examples of Tertiary health care (rehabilitation) | similarly to secondary much has moved from hospital based settings to community, cardiac rehab out-pt, hospice at home care |
| The Broad Goals of Health People 2010 are: | Increase quality and years of healthy life both physically and mentally, Eliminate health disparities |
| All levels of prevention are emphasized in Community Based Health care as well as: | Promotion of and preserving health of populations |
| Healthy Kent 2010 began with Healthy People 2000, The Healthy Kent 2010 motto is: | Community Health through Community action |
| Potential health threats in Kent Co. | Housing, water quality, air standards, food quality, & health care access |
| Why was Project Takeoff initiated? | Michigan ranks 3rd in the nation for obesity, it is the BIGGEST problem we are facing in Kent county |
| Epidemiology is Population focused, applied science, & answers questions like: | who in the population is affected by what disease? What is the occurence in the community? Can causative and risk factors be identified? |
| Mobidity | measure of the frequency of occurrence of disease in a defined population during a specified time. Number of sick persons in relation to the population |
| Incidence | number of new cases developing in a population in a specified time |
| Mortality | measure of the frequency of death in a defined population during a specified time |
| Prevalence | measure of existing disease in a population at a particular time |
| Epidemic | rate of disease or injury exceeds the norm |
| Endemic | Usual expected amount of disease in a population |
| These things make up the epidemiologic triangle: | Host, agent, & environment |
| Web of causation | complex interrelationships, Increases/decreases risk of disease |
| MASH units formed, casualties were treated close to the front, & Antibiotics and medical advances improved mortality and morbidity during the: | Korean conflict |
| Complete this rhyme: I founded planned parenthood & enabled you to wrap your wanger, this should help you remember that my name is Margaret _________. | Sanger |
| In order to write a care plan, you 1st need to choose an actual: | nursing diagnosis |
| I coined the term "public health nurse" in 1893 for nurses who worked outside hospitals in poor and middle-class communities | Lillian Wald |
| Maslow's Heirarchy of needs (in order from bottom to top): Physiological, _________, love & belonging, ____________. | safety, self-actualization |
| In the nursing diagnosis, RT means: | related to |
| AEB, in the nursing diagnosis means | as evidenced by |
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