Contemporary Nursing Issues, Trends, & Management Chapter 1-3

Contemporary Nursing Issues, Trends, & Management Chapter 1-3 The American Red Cross is established by? - Clara Barton The first diploma nursing program for blacks is established at? - Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, established the first diploma nursing program for blacks in 1886. The Mosaic Code is one of the oldest sources of what type of health promotion? - Personal and public hygiene What event in American history influenced the role black women have played in the nursing profession? - The Civil War, beginning in 1861 The American Civil War allowed and encouraged black women to volunteer as nurses, thus setting the stage for their ultimate involvement in the profession of nursing. The U.S. Marine Hospital Service was the forerunner of today's U.S. Public Health Service. The Army Nurse Corps was an outcome of the Army Reorganization Act. North Carolina was the first state to implement the registration of nurses through its nursing practice act. Which intervention best demonstrates that a nursing administrator understands the challenges currently facing the professional nurse regarding patient safety? - Requiring that staffing and schedules accommodate the attendance at mandatory in-services focusing on interprofessional care collaboration Which behavior provides evidence addressing the ability of nursing as a profession to provide high-quality, effective care as patient-centered needs intensify? - Enrolling in a Masters of Nursing Education graduate programThe need for nurses to provide the care for the influx of clients projected in the future is best addressed initially through the increase in nurses with graduate degrees. This allows for the education and training of future nurses who are introduced to nursing through effective recruiting targeted at various populations. Health screening is directed toward the early detection of health care needs. Political activism is directed toward health care policy change and enactment on national and even local government levels. In order to meet the projected need for professional nurses, what area of concern is funded by the Nurse Reinvestment Act of 2002? - Recruitment enticements for nursing faculty positions Support for those enrolled in master's and doctoral nursing program The establishment of retention programs focused on existing nursing faculty What factor is cited as contributing to the inability of America's schools of nursing to meet the expected demand for professional nurses? - Inability to fill faculty positions Insufficient clinical practice sites Lack of clinical preceptors