Nursing 129 Test # 1 correctly answered
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Important tools for success in nursing education - correct answer ✔✔organization,
accountability, time management
Duty of nursing - correct answer ✔✔-keep people healthy
-provide comfort and assurance to the sick
Why has nursing changed through out the yrs? - correct answer ✔✔- ever advancing technology
-changing of societys needs
a strong feeling of suitability for a particular career or occupation is (calling)? - correct answer
✔✔vocation
How does ANA define nursing? - correct 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? - correct answer ✔✔It
is the competency and applying these skills within the context of the patient
What are standards of practice for nurses? - correct answer ✔✔to protect the public
,How do State Boards influence nursing education? - correct 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? - correct 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? - correct answer ✔✔the Legislature
Lillian Wald - correct answer ✔✔Henry Street settlement, the founder of American community
nursing
Florence Nightingale - correct answer ✔✔mother of nursing
Dorothea Dix 1840 - correct 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 1821-1912 - correct answer ✔✔red cross,
Inspired by International Red Cross to form American Red Cross in 1881
Margaret Sanger - correct answer ✔✔• One of the most controversial nurses of modern times
• Dedicated to provide legal birth control
• Founded Planned Parenthood
, Mary Breckinridge - correct answer ✔✔founded frontier midwifery graduate school
Isabel Adams Hampton Robb, 1860-1910 - correct 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 - correct 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, 1897-1996 - correct answer ✔✔created care plans based on a holistic
approach (looked at the whole person)
Florence S. Wald - correct answer ✔✔Developed the first Hospice in 1960
Mary Eliza Mahoney - correct answer ✔✔• First Black graduate nurse in the US 1899
Men in nursing - correct answer ✔✔Fray (Friar) Juan de Mena
James Derham
Fray (Friar) Juan de Mena - correct answer ✔✔1st identified male nurse
James Derham - correct answer ✔✔born into slavery
was a nurse in new orleans
graded A+ updated
Important tools for success in nursing education - correct answer ✔✔organization,
accountability, time management
Duty of nursing - correct answer ✔✔-keep people healthy
-provide comfort and assurance to the sick
Why has nursing changed through out the yrs? - correct answer ✔✔- ever advancing technology
-changing of societys needs
a strong feeling of suitability for a particular career or occupation is (calling)? - correct answer
✔✔vocation
How does ANA define nursing? - correct 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? - correct answer ✔✔It
is the competency and applying these skills within the context of the patient
What are standards of practice for nurses? - correct answer ✔✔to protect the public
,How do State Boards influence nursing education? - correct 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? - correct 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? - correct answer ✔✔the Legislature
Lillian Wald - correct answer ✔✔Henry Street settlement, the founder of American community
nursing
Florence Nightingale - correct answer ✔✔mother of nursing
Dorothea Dix 1840 - correct 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 1821-1912 - correct answer ✔✔red cross,
Inspired by International Red Cross to form American Red Cross in 1881
Margaret Sanger - correct answer ✔✔• One of the most controversial nurses of modern times
• Dedicated to provide legal birth control
• Founded Planned Parenthood
, Mary Breckinridge - correct answer ✔✔founded frontier midwifery graduate school
Isabel Adams Hampton Robb, 1860-1910 - correct 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 - correct 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, 1897-1996 - correct answer ✔✔created care plans based on a holistic
approach (looked at the whole person)
Florence S. Wald - correct answer ✔✔Developed the first Hospice in 1960
Mary Eliza Mahoney - correct answer ✔✔• First Black graduate nurse in the US 1899
Men in nursing - correct answer ✔✔Fray (Friar) Juan de Mena
James Derham
Fray (Friar) Juan de Mena - correct answer ✔✔1st identified male nurse
James Derham - correct answer ✔✔born into slavery
was a nurse in new orleans
