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"Nightingale Nurses" Improved patient care by Correct Answer
-good hygiene
-patient observation
-acute record keeping
-nutritional improvements
-introduced new medical equipment
Accreditation Correct Answer granting approval or belief in a
school
alumni association Correct Answer (n) a group of former
students of a specific school who worked to establish standards
of practice at a local level
American Society of Superintendents of training schools
Correct Answer Established by Isabelle Hampton Robb and
Lavina Dock 1893 and the goal was to set education standards
for nurses at a national level
Approved program Correct Answer one that satisfies
minimum standards set by the state agency responsible for
overseeing educational programs
Articulation Correct Answer Progressive leanring
Ballard School( 1892) Correct Answer First school to
establish a practical nurse training program in 1892; graduates
of this program were referred to as attendant nurses
, - Brooklyn
Care of the sick during early civilization Correct Answer
Illness was considered to be an indicator of how one stood with
god; it was understood as a direct outcome of divine disfavor.
Primitive people believed that a person became sick when an
evil spirit entered the body and that the presence of a good spirit
kept disease away. Medicine men performed witchcraft and
rituals to induce. Bad spirits to leave the body of the ailing
person.
Certification Correct Answer A process in which a person, an
institution, or a program is evaluated and recognized as meeting
certain predetermined standards to provide safe and ethical care.
Clara Barton (1821-1912) Correct Answer Developed the
American Red Cross in 1881
Clara Barton and Dorothea Dix Correct Answer What two
women helped transform nursing into a respected profession
during the Civil War?
Contemporary nursing Correct Answer Developed by the
American Nurse Association (ANA) in which Growth and
diversity of nursing services resulting from the change of focus
in health care from a profit-driven industry to care of the sick
solely to an ever-expanding profession
- goal is to have 80% of working nurses to be baccalaureate ( not
realistic )
- require id badge and stethoscope