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Actual Complete Exam |Already Graded A+

What are the characteristics of a nursing professional (Kelly's Criteria)? ✔Correct Answer--
Services provided are a service to humanity
-A specialized body of knowledge that is continually enlarged through research

Describe the Scope and Standards of the practice of nursing. ✔Correct Answer-Nursing: Scope
and Standards of Practice (ANA,2010)
-Outlines the expectations of the professional role of the nurse
-Establishes the responsibilities for which nurses are accountable

Why should we define nursing? ✔Correct Answer-*Clarifies purposes and functions
*Establishes parameters or boundaries of profession
*Differentiates from other occupations
*Influences health policy at local, state and national levels
*Aid in developing educational curricula and research agendas.

What is Florence Nightingale's definition of nursing? ✔Correct Answer-Focused on the basic
needs of the patient

How did the post-World War II influence the definitions of nursing? ✔Correct Answer--added
technology and skills
-recognized emotions as r/t health, illness, and nursing care
-Many nurses began receiving Master's degrees

List groups/organizations of nurses/nurse educators/people who have developed or
attempted to develop definitions of nursing? ✔Correct Answer--Virginia Henderson
-Dorothea Orem
-Martha Roger

What is holistic nursing? ✔Correct Answer-Nourishes the whole person, body, mind and spirit

What is the definition of beliefs? ✔Correct Answer-Represents the intellectual acceptance of
something as true or correct

What is the definition of values? ✔Correct Answer-Gives meaning and direction to a person's
life
Nurses need to understand their own value system

What is the definition of the "philosophy of nursing?" ✔Correct Answer--Statement of beliefs
about nursing

, -Expressions of values in nursing
-Used for decision making and the practice of nursing

Clara Barton ✔Correct Answer-Founded the American Red Cross

Mary Ann Bickerdyke ✔Correct Answer-a Civil War lay nurse who rallied the soldiers, cleaning
up the camps and the soldiers

Mary Breckenridge ✔Correct Answer-nurse midwife who founded the Frontier Nursing
Service

Dorothea Dix ✔Correct Answer-an avid reformer of care of the mentally ill; appointed by
President Lincoln as Superintendent of Women Nurses of the Army

What 2 major challenges did African-American nurses face in the late 1800's and early
1900's? ✔Correct Answer--Racial barriers for education - One Afro-American nurse, Mary
Mahoney, was admitted
to the New England Hospital for Women and Children (1878).
-Segregated nursing schools - First program exclusively for African American women was
established at the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary in 1886. (Now known as Spelman
College.)
-Racial barriers for military - In 1947, segregation of African-American nurses was ended

Florence Nightingale ✔Correct Answer-Founder of modern nursing and nursing education

Mary Adelaide Nutting ✔Correct Answer-first professor of nursing in the world

Mary Mahoney ✔Correct Answer-First professionally trained African American nurse

Isabel Hampton Robb ✔Correct Answer-- helped to form the National League of Nursing and
the American
Nurses Association

Lillian Wald ✔Correct Answer-founded the Henry Street Settlement and public health nursing

Mildred Montag ✔Correct Answer-founded ADN education in 1952

Hildegard Peplau ✔Correct Answer-pioneer in nursing theory

Civil War (1861 - 1873) ✔Correct Answer-o There were no professional nurses available
o Catholic women responded because they had a long history of providing for the
sick - they were skillful and devoted
o Placed women in leadership positions in hospitals
o Led to the first training schools for nurses after the Civil War

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