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TEST BANK- Contemporary NURSING,{ 9th Edition 2024} Issues, Trends, & Management by Barbara Cherry & Susan R. Jacob|| WITH QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

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blic health nursing.
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2. Students are assigned to write to their state leaders about an issue affecting their community
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. One student writes about the need among rural community for greater access to acute care
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services. Which of the following pieces of legislation should the student use as a reference
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th care facilities in accordance with the needs of communities.
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3. The practice of public health nursing and the Henry Street Settlement are credited to:
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a. Mary Breckenridge. uf


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4. Occupational health nursing features beliefs similar to those of which early nursing pioneer?
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a. Lillian Wald uf


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, Lillian Wald developed the first nursing service for occupational health.
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5. What historical event first led to the recognition of the contribution of blacks to nursing?
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a. Florence Nightingale‘s acceptance of black nurses into the first nursing school
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c. Mary Seacole‘s efforts to care for soldiers during the Crimean War
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d. The work done by wives of wealthy black nobles who carried food and medicine
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from house to house during the Middle Ages
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Although Nightingale‘s school refused Seacole, she was able to make a difference in the Cri
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mean War and later was recognized for her efforts.
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6. World War I contributed to the advancement of health care by:
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a. increasing the number of private care hospitals and decreasing the role of public
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health services.
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b. employing a large number of civilians to provide care to returning soldiers through
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the Red Cross.
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e example of nurse anesthetists, who became part of surgical teams at the front lines.
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7. The primary purpose of the Social Security Act of 1935 was to:
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a. increase research that focused on minority groups.
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b. provide medical care for chemically impaired persons.
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c. ensure health care for older adults through a national insurance system.
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d. decrease the public‘s financial burden by limiting services offered by local health
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departments.
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dent for the passage of the Medicare and Medicaid Acts that followed in 1965, but the act als
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y challenged, medical care for blind individuals and crippled children, and unemployment b
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8. A client asks the nurse, ―Can you explain Medicare, an amendment to the Social Securit
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y Act?‖ The nurse responds that Medicare:
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a. led to many hospital closings, along with a decrease in acute care hospital–
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