NUR 410 Midterm Questions and Correct
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Who were hired by privileged families to care for the sick and to assist with childbirth?
women
Shiphrah and Puah were ____________________ who saved the baby Moses.
midwives
Who is the god of medicine that created the caduceus?
Aesclepius
Who is considered the father of medicine?
Hippocrates
In early civilization Greece, temples to honor Aesclepius were designated to care for the sick,
the ____________________ of the caregivers is unclear.
gender
In early civilization India, public "hospitals" were staffed by ____________________ nurses.
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male
In early civilization Rome, military orders made up exclusively of ____________________
were developed to care for the injured.
men
During the middle ages in the ____________________, nuns and monks cared for the sick.
catholic church
In the middle ages, wives of emperors and other ____________________ women could
become nurses: mostly midwifes; seen as charitable works.
wealthy
In the Renaissance and the Reformation Period (Dark Age of Nursing), care of the sick was
regulated to ____________________ women who were perceived as no better than
prisoners, thieves, alcoholics, and prostitutes.
common
In the Renaissance and the Reformation Period (Dark Age of Nursing), nursing is considered an
____________________ job with poor pay, long hours, and strenuous work that was
considered menial.
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undesirable
____________________ nursing orders were re-established out of great concern for social
welfare during the renaissance and the reformation period.
religious
Nurses week is in ____________________ because this is when Florence Nightingale's
birthday is.
May
Florence Nightingale founded the first nursing school in ____________________.
England
Nightingale introduced principles such as ____________________ and
____________________, along with a system for transcribing physician's orders and a system
to maintain patient records.
asepsis, infection control
Nightingale kept ____________________ that documented a decrease in the death rate of
soldiers as a result of health care reforms that emphasized sanitary conditions.
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statistics
Nightingale has been honored for her contribution to ____________________.
nursing research
Nightingale demonstrated the value of ____________________ to affect health care reform.
political activism
Nurses in Florence Nightingale's nursing school could not be ____________________.
married
Who was denied the opportunity to join Nightingale's nursing brigade because she was black,
so she opened a lodging house with her own money to care for sick and wounded soldiers in
the Crimean War?
Mary Seacole
Who was appointed to organize military hospitals, provide trained nurses, and disperse
supplies; she received no official status and no salary for this position?
Dorthea Dix
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