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Important tools for success in nursing education - Answer-organization, accountability, time management Duty of nursing - Answer--keep people healthy -provide comfort and assurance to the sick Why has nursing changed through out the yrs? - Answer-- ever advancing technology -changing of societys needs a strong feeling of suitability for a particular career or occupation is (calling)? - Answer-vocation How does ANA define nursing? - Answer-the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations What do knowledge, decision, and psychomotor skills relate in nursing? - Answer-It is the competency and applying these skills within the context of the patient What are standards of practice for nurses? - Answer-to protect the public How do State Boards influence nursing education? - Answer-indicates minimal level of knowledge or competency deemed necessary by the state to practice nursing without injury to clients What is the primary purpose of licensure for nurses? - Answer-legal authority to practice a profession in the US comes from each state or territorial government, independent decision making, NY became the first state Who writes the Nurse practice Acts in each state? - Answer-the Legislature Lillian Wald - Answer-Henry Street settlement, the founder of American community nursingFlorence Nightingale - Answer-mother of nursing Dorothea Dix 1840 - Answer-Appointed to organize military hospitals, provide trained nurses, and disperse supplies • Fought for the rights of the mentally ill • 6 million people hospitalized during the war—one-half million surgical cases; 2000 nurses served in the war Clara Barton - Answer-red cross, Inspired by International Red Cross to form American Red Cross in 1881 Margaret Sanger - Answer-• One of the most controversial nurses of modern times • Dedicated to provide legal birth control • Founded Planned Parenthood Mary Breckinridge - Answer-founded frontier midwifery graduate school Isabel Adams Hampton Robb, - Answer-• First President of ANA • Organized Nursing School superintendents which became the National League of Nurses • Member of committee to form the AJN Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail - Answer-• Helped to end abuses in Indian Health care system • Decreased death rate of Native American children • Established funding mechanism for education of native American Nurses • Presidents Award in 1992 for Outstanding Nursing Health Care. Virginia A. Henderson, - Answer-created care plans based on a holistic approach (looked at the whole person) Florence S. Wald - Answer-Developed the first Hospice in 1960