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Concepts of professional nursing quiz #1 (nursing history)

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- Founder of modern nursing
- Early statistician
- During the Crimean war- focused on epidemiology, infection prevention, and hospice care
- Founded first training school for nurses
at St. Thomas Hospital in London
Florence Nightingale
- Made significant contributions to the health of soldiers during the Crimean war
Established a hotel for injured soldiers and frequently came to the battlefield to tend to the sick and injured
Referred to as "our greatest Black Briton, a woman who did more to advance the cause of nursing and race relations than almost any other individual..."
Mary Seacole
Superintendent of Women Nurses by the Union Army in the 1861-1873 American Civil War
Dorthea Dix
- No professional nurses available
- No organized system of medical care
- Wounded men and dying men lying in filth, agony and squalor
- Military leaders made appeals for nurses
1861-1873 American Civil War
what two important nurses cared for injured soldiers in the 1861-1873 American Civil War?
Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman
- "Angel of the Battlefield"
- Set up field hospitals in Virginia
- Founder of the
American Red Cross
Clara Barton
at around what year did formal nursing education is recognized and the first 3 schools of nursing open in New York, Connecticut and Boston modeled after Florence Nightingale's St. Thomas Hospital in London?
1873
at around what year did the First school for African American nurses opens in Atlanta- later Spellman College?
1886
at around what year did the School for Males Nurses is established in New York City and what year did Alexian Brothers originate?
1886 and 1898
at around what year did Isabel Hampton Robb paper on the need for uniformity
in nursing education develop in the Chicago Worlds fair? also the National League for Nursing is formed
1893
who goes on to form the American Nurses Association in 1896?
Isabel Hampton Robb
who forms the National Association
of Colored Graduate Nurses in 1908- and combines with ANA in 1951
Martha Franklin
what...
- Achieved higher professional standards
- Broke down discriminatory practices
- Developed leadership among African American nurses
nursing organizations
who established the Henry Street Settlement- first formalized public health nursing practice in 1893
Lilian Wald
what settlement helped the influx of immigrants into the U.S. seeking employment and relentless in their goal to improve the health of the immigrants who were seeking better lives in America?
Henry Street Settlement
at around what year did all states required examination for RNs but exams were not standardized?
1923
at around what year did New York became the first state to require RN license but not fully mandated until 1947?
1930
at around what year did the National League for Nursing administered the first State Board Test Pool Examination?
1950
at around what year did the National Council of State Boards of Nursing?
1978
at around what year did WWI starts- nurses to provide care to wounded soldiers abroad?
1917
at around what year did the Influenza pandemic- nurses to provide care to the sick and dying at home?
1918
at around what year did nurses eligible to hold military rank?
1920
what Advocated for the establishment of schools of nursing associated with colleges and universities rather than hospitals?
the gold mark report
what Nurse and midwife started the first organized midwifery program in the United States in 1925
- Traveled by horseback to the rural areas of the Appalachian Mountains
- Delivered babies, pre-natal care, post-natal care, education on nutrition and hygiene, care for the sick
Mary Breckinridge
what helped people who were impoverished or living with a disability pay their medical bills?
medicaid
what helped people who were over the age of 65 years old pay their medical bills?
medicare
what year did the First Nurse Practitioners meet primary care needs?
1971
in 1965 what two Amendments to Social Security Amendment designed to ensure access to health care for Americans who were elderly, poor and living with a disability. Hospitals started to rely heavily on reimbursement from them. this was also around the time that RNs began to specialize.
medicare and medicaid
during what time did (what war)...
- Nurses work in the hospital ships of the Navy, the Air Force airlift helicopters and airplanes, and Army hospitals and field hospitals
- Nurses performed life saving procedures in the field and had to make quick decisions
- Returned home to much anti-war sentiment
- Some with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
vietnam war
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