Nurs 350 Midterm Exam Questions and
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Influences of the Renaissance - ✔✔-Use of more modern methods of
diagnosis and treatment of disease were often viewed as disrespectful,
improper, or even the work of the devil
-Most health care of the early renaissance was still provided in hospitals
run by religious organizations
-A more modern understanding of the microbial origin of many diseases
developed
-Although medical education was developing, it was still under an
apprenticeship system and involed the use of many home remedies
William Harvey - ✔✔(1578-1657)
-Called the father of the modern medicine
-made major contributions to the medical practice
Joseph Lister - ✔✔-Began to understand how disease was spread, and
developed aseptic practices that are still used today
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,Louis Pasteur - ✔✔-discovered that bacterial organisms could be killed by
heat, and the process of pasteurization was born
Influences of the Industrial Revolution - ✔✔-Rapid development of new
manufacturing technologies
-Migration of large number of people from farms to crowded living in cities
-First efforts at community health to keep workers healthy
-The sisters of charity, originally organized to provide nursing care in the
city hospitals, expanded their services to include home care and
orphanages for abandoned children
-other catholic and non-catholic orders developed tot are care of the sick
-Florence nightingale lived and worked during this time
Nursing in the United States - ✔✔-Health care practices tended to parallel
those in Europe, but were somewhat less advanced
-1658: Dutch East India Company founded Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan,
New York
--It provided care for newly arrived African Slaves and for sailors who had
become sick at sea
--With mortality rates ranging between 50% and 75%, Bellevue, the best of
the early hospitals, become known as the "House of horrors"
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, WW1 Negative Effect on nursing (nursing in the united states) - ✔✔-Nurse
aide programs started, replacing educated nurses
-The overall quality of nursing education declined
WW1 Positive Effects - ✔✔-Public health nursing grew
-A few more university programs were developed
Nursing in the Unites States (cont.) - ✔✔-Hospitals became centralized
institutions for delivering health care
-physicians became increasingly dependent on the services provided by
hospitals, particularly when high- tech, expensive equipment was involved
-The traditional belief that all nurses were interchangeable in the workplace
began to be challenged
To meet the nursing shortage after the war, "quick fix" methods were used:
(nursing in the US) - ✔✔-LPN programs were started
-"technical nurse" programs were started (became ADN programs)
-Interested in BSN degrees and professional nursing also grew
-Many of the problems in today's nursing can be traces to this time period
Resume Tips - ✔✔-Specific rather than general
-Active rather than passive
-Written to express not impress
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Answers 100% Solved | Graded A+
Influences of the Renaissance - ✔✔-Use of more modern methods of
diagnosis and treatment of disease were often viewed as disrespectful,
improper, or even the work of the devil
-Most health care of the early renaissance was still provided in hospitals
run by religious organizations
-A more modern understanding of the microbial origin of many diseases
developed
-Although medical education was developing, it was still under an
apprenticeship system and involed the use of many home remedies
William Harvey - ✔✔(1578-1657)
-Called the father of the modern medicine
-made major contributions to the medical practice
Joseph Lister - ✔✔-Began to understand how disease was spread, and
developed aseptic practices that are still used today
1
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,Louis Pasteur - ✔✔-discovered that bacterial organisms could be killed by
heat, and the process of pasteurization was born
Influences of the Industrial Revolution - ✔✔-Rapid development of new
manufacturing technologies
-Migration of large number of people from farms to crowded living in cities
-First efforts at community health to keep workers healthy
-The sisters of charity, originally organized to provide nursing care in the
city hospitals, expanded their services to include home care and
orphanages for abandoned children
-other catholic and non-catholic orders developed tot are care of the sick
-Florence nightingale lived and worked during this time
Nursing in the United States - ✔✔-Health care practices tended to parallel
those in Europe, but were somewhat less advanced
-1658: Dutch East India Company founded Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan,
New York
--It provided care for newly arrived African Slaves and for sailors who had
become sick at sea
--With mortality rates ranging between 50% and 75%, Bellevue, the best of
the early hospitals, become known as the "House of horrors"
2
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, WW1 Negative Effect on nursing (nursing in the united states) - ✔✔-Nurse
aide programs started, replacing educated nurses
-The overall quality of nursing education declined
WW1 Positive Effects - ✔✔-Public health nursing grew
-A few more university programs were developed
Nursing in the Unites States (cont.) - ✔✔-Hospitals became centralized
institutions for delivering health care
-physicians became increasingly dependent on the services provided by
hospitals, particularly when high- tech, expensive equipment was involved
-The traditional belief that all nurses were interchangeable in the workplace
began to be challenged
To meet the nursing shortage after the war, "quick fix" methods were used:
(nursing in the US) - ✔✔-LPN programs were started
-"technical nurse" programs were started (became ADN programs)
-Interested in BSN degrees and professional nursing also grew
-Many of the problems in today's nursing can be traces to this time period
Resume Tips - ✔✔-Specific rather than general
-Active rather than passive
-Written to express not impress
3
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