Contemporary Nursing Issues, Trends, & Management
Chapter 1-3
The American Red Cross is established by? - Clara Barton
The first diploma nursing program for blacks is established at? - Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia
Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, established the first diploma nursing program for blacks in 1886.
The Mosaic Code is one of the oldest sources of what type of health promotion? - Personal and public
hygiene
What event in American history influenced the role black women have played in the nursing profession?
- The Civil War, beginning in 1861
The American Civil War allowed and encouraged black women to volunteer as nurses, thus setting the
stage for their ultimate involvement in the profession of nursing. The U.S. Marine Hospital Service was
the forerunner of today's U.S. Public Health Service. The Army Nurse Corps was an outcome of the Army
Reorganization Act. North Carolina was the first state to implement the registration of nurses through its
nursing practice act.
Which intervention best demonstrates that a nursing administrator understands the challenges
currently facing the professional nurse regarding patient safety? - Requiring that staffing and schedules
accommodate the attendance at mandatory in-services focusing on interprofessional care collaboration
Which behavior provides evidence addressing the ability of nursing as a profession to provide high-
quality, effective care as patient-centered needs intensify? - Enrolling in a Masters of Nursing Education
graduate programThe need for nurses to provide the care for the influx of clients projected in the future
is best addressed initially through the increase in nurses with graduate degrees. This allows for the
education and training of future nurses who are introduced to nursing through effective recruiting
targeted at various populations. Health screening is directed toward the early detection of health care
needs. Political activism is directed toward health care policy change and enactment on national and
even local government levels.
, In order to meet the projected need for professional nurses, what area of concern is funded by the
Nurse Reinvestment Act of 2002? - Recruitment enticements for nursing faculty positions
Support for those enrolled in master's and doctoral nursing program
The establishment of retention programs focused on existing nursing faculty
What factor is cited as contributing to the inability of America's schools of nursing to meet the expected
demand for professional nurses? - Inability to fill faculty positions
Insufficient clinical practice sites
Lack of clinical preceptors
Lack of school funding
In the Middle Ages (467 BCE to AD 1450), what was the basis for women delivering food, medicine, and
care to the community's ill? - Christian concepts of charity and the sanctity of human life
The Middle Ages saw the Christian church as the central figure in the organization and management of
health care, and its concepts of charity and sanctity of human life were influential in the practice of
caring for the sick. Beginning in prehistoric times, there was a belief that illness was a direct outcome of
displeasing the gods, which gave rise to the practice of making offerings to the gods. In many cultures, it
is still believed that illness is related to punishment from the god(s). The concept of patient-centered
care and use of the scientific method of problem solving originated with the Greeks (1500 to 100 BCE).
The Romans (27 BCE to AD 476) are credited with the concepts of good hygiene and sanitation being
vital to good health.
The nursing profession viewed the television series
as a negative portrayal of nurses based on the exploits of the program's nurses and physicians. -
M*A*S*H
The nursing profession viewed M*A*S*H as professionally destructive because of the negative portrayal
of Hot Lips Hoolihan and the nurses of the 4077th Army MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) unit in
Korea. The sexual exploits of nurses and physicians and the uncaring Margaret provided few positive
images.
The image that best serves today's profession of nursing is one that portrays what characteristics? -
Trust and belief
The image most important to today's nursing professional is one that supports the public's need to trust
and believe in the nurse caring for them. The individual actually providing the care often changes with
each shift change and so the perception of the profession as a whole is vitally important. Although the
Chapter 1-3
The American Red Cross is established by? - Clara Barton
The first diploma nursing program for blacks is established at? - Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia
Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, established the first diploma nursing program for blacks in 1886.
The Mosaic Code is one of the oldest sources of what type of health promotion? - Personal and public
hygiene
What event in American history influenced the role black women have played in the nursing profession?
- The Civil War, beginning in 1861
The American Civil War allowed and encouraged black women to volunteer as nurses, thus setting the
stage for their ultimate involvement in the profession of nursing. The U.S. Marine Hospital Service was
the forerunner of today's U.S. Public Health Service. The Army Nurse Corps was an outcome of the Army
Reorganization Act. North Carolina was the first state to implement the registration of nurses through its
nursing practice act.
Which intervention best demonstrates that a nursing administrator understands the challenges
currently facing the professional nurse regarding patient safety? - Requiring that staffing and schedules
accommodate the attendance at mandatory in-services focusing on interprofessional care collaboration
Which behavior provides evidence addressing the ability of nursing as a profession to provide high-
quality, effective care as patient-centered needs intensify? - Enrolling in a Masters of Nursing Education
graduate programThe need for nurses to provide the care for the influx of clients projected in the future
is best addressed initially through the increase in nurses with graduate degrees. This allows for the
education and training of future nurses who are introduced to nursing through effective recruiting
targeted at various populations. Health screening is directed toward the early detection of health care
needs. Political activism is directed toward health care policy change and enactment on national and
even local government levels.
, In order to meet the projected need for professional nurses, what area of concern is funded by the
Nurse Reinvestment Act of 2002? - Recruitment enticements for nursing faculty positions
Support for those enrolled in master's and doctoral nursing program
The establishment of retention programs focused on existing nursing faculty
What factor is cited as contributing to the inability of America's schools of nursing to meet the expected
demand for professional nurses? - Inability to fill faculty positions
Insufficient clinical practice sites
Lack of clinical preceptors
Lack of school funding
In the Middle Ages (467 BCE to AD 1450), what was the basis for women delivering food, medicine, and
care to the community's ill? - Christian concepts of charity and the sanctity of human life
The Middle Ages saw the Christian church as the central figure in the organization and management of
health care, and its concepts of charity and sanctity of human life were influential in the practice of
caring for the sick. Beginning in prehistoric times, there was a belief that illness was a direct outcome of
displeasing the gods, which gave rise to the practice of making offerings to the gods. In many cultures, it
is still believed that illness is related to punishment from the god(s). The concept of patient-centered
care and use of the scientific method of problem solving originated with the Greeks (1500 to 100 BCE).
The Romans (27 BCE to AD 476) are credited with the concepts of good hygiene and sanitation being
vital to good health.
The nursing profession viewed the television series
as a negative portrayal of nurses based on the exploits of the program's nurses and physicians. -
M*A*S*H
The nursing profession viewed M*A*S*H as professionally destructive because of the negative portrayal
of Hot Lips Hoolihan and the nurses of the 4077th Army MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) unit in
Korea. The sexual exploits of nurses and physicians and the uncaring Margaret provided few positive
images.
The image that best serves today's profession of nursing is one that portrays what characteristics? -
Trust and belief
The image most important to today's nursing professional is one that supports the public's need to trust
and believe in the nurse caring for them. The individual actually providing the care often changes with
each shift change and so the perception of the profession as a whole is vitally important. Although the
