CONTEMPORARY NURSING LATEST UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Abraham Flexner - ✔✔First person that studied medical education, that had the first
look at professionalism.
✔✔Flexner Report - ✔✔The flexner report was made to insure that the education of
nurses and other professional was kept to high standards. He made a list of 5 criteria
that he believed should be meet if you are a professional.
altruism/putting someone before you
recommended closing 400 nursing schools and only keeping open 35.
within 15 years medicine became the most highly valued occupations
✔✔when was the first training school in the US - ✔✔1873
✔✔Florence Nightingale - ✔✔Most influential nurse in history, she studied for 3 years,
and then during the war she took other nurses over to clean the hospitals and took care
of wounded soldiers.
, ✔✔After the Crimean war the first training school was located in London in a hospital
names St. Thomas, why was this important? - ✔✔This was a model for nursing
education in the US
✔✔Florence Nightingale believed in what? - ✔✔"notes on nursing, what it is and what it
is not"
Good nursing care is essential to the healing process, you have to pay attention to
symptoms
✔✔Where there any professional nurses during the civil war? - ✔✔No
✔✔What women responded to the need for nurses during the civil war? - ✔✔Catholic
nuns
✔✔Who is Dorothea Dix - ✔✔Superintendent of women in the army, she instructed a
program for women who wanted to serve in the war. Prior to her war days she took care
of the mentally ill.
✔✔What were some of the qualifications that nurses of war had to meet? - ✔✔they had
to be in good health, have a good moral character, and had to have matronly plainness.
✔✔Name a few African Americans that responded in the war as nurses? - ✔✔Sojourner
truth and Harriet Tubman
✔✔Who was Mary Ann Bickerdyke - ✔✔She was sent by her church, she was referred
to as the mother of battlefield
✔✔Clara Barton was known as and known for? - ✔✔The Angel of battlefield, she was
the founder of the American Red Cross.
✔✔What was the most important changes that took place by the end of the war? -
✔✔the hospitals were orderly and clean, and the death rate was much lower
✔✔Name the 3 first training schools in the USA - ✔✔Bellvue Training school for nurses
in nyc
conn. Training school in new haven
bosten training school mass general
✔✔When becoming a nurse, what were some of the requirements if you were a female
- ✔✔sensitivity, bredding, intelligence, ladylike, and submissive to authority
✔✔feminization of the profession - ✔✔took hold
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Abraham Flexner - ✔✔First person that studied medical education, that had the first
look at professionalism.
✔✔Flexner Report - ✔✔The flexner report was made to insure that the education of
nurses and other professional was kept to high standards. He made a list of 5 criteria
that he believed should be meet if you are a professional.
altruism/putting someone before you
recommended closing 400 nursing schools and only keeping open 35.
within 15 years medicine became the most highly valued occupations
✔✔when was the first training school in the US - ✔✔1873
✔✔Florence Nightingale - ✔✔Most influential nurse in history, she studied for 3 years,
and then during the war she took other nurses over to clean the hospitals and took care
of wounded soldiers.
, ✔✔After the Crimean war the first training school was located in London in a hospital
names St. Thomas, why was this important? - ✔✔This was a model for nursing
education in the US
✔✔Florence Nightingale believed in what? - ✔✔"notes on nursing, what it is and what it
is not"
Good nursing care is essential to the healing process, you have to pay attention to
symptoms
✔✔Where there any professional nurses during the civil war? - ✔✔No
✔✔What women responded to the need for nurses during the civil war? - ✔✔Catholic
nuns
✔✔Who is Dorothea Dix - ✔✔Superintendent of women in the army, she instructed a
program for women who wanted to serve in the war. Prior to her war days she took care
of the mentally ill.
✔✔What were some of the qualifications that nurses of war had to meet? - ✔✔they had
to be in good health, have a good moral character, and had to have matronly plainness.
✔✔Name a few African Americans that responded in the war as nurses? - ✔✔Sojourner
truth and Harriet Tubman
✔✔Who was Mary Ann Bickerdyke - ✔✔She was sent by her church, she was referred
to as the mother of battlefield
✔✔Clara Barton was known as and known for? - ✔✔The Angel of battlefield, she was
the founder of the American Red Cross.
✔✔What was the most important changes that took place by the end of the war? -
✔✔the hospitals were orderly and clean, and the death rate was much lower
✔✔Name the 3 first training schools in the USA - ✔✔Bellvue Training school for nurses
in nyc
conn. Training school in new haven
bosten training school mass general
✔✔When becoming a nurse, what were some of the requirements if you were a female
- ✔✔sensitivity, bredding, intelligence, ladylike, and submissive to authority
✔✔feminization of the profession - ✔✔took hold
