NURS 2300 Exam 1 Study Guide | VERIFIED GUIDE

Lillian Wald – Started community health nursing when she established the Henry Street Settlement in New York City in 1895 Florence Nightingale – Considered the founder of modern nursing. Influential in developing nursing education, practice, and administration. What was the first training school for nursing? St. Thomas' Hospital in London, which became the model for nursing education in the United States Mary Seacole Jamaican nurse and businesswoman. Worked in proximity to Nightingale during the Crimean war. Expert on Cholera. Dorothea Dix Civil war superintendent of union army nurses. Advocate for the mentally ill and prisoners. Clara Barton Known as the angel of the battlefield. Started the Red Cross. Began a campaign to provide supplies and relief to soldiers. Mary E. Mahoney First African American professional nurse. Mary Breckenridge Nurse and midwife who established the Frontier Nursing Service What is the Frontier Nursing Service? First nurse midwifery program founded by Mary Breckenridge, that went into rural areas and provided care to the women there What are examples of internal causes of a nursing shortage? Salary issues, long hours, increased responsibility for unlicensed workers, significant responsibility with little authority What are examples of external causes of a nursing shortage? Changes in demand for nursing services, increasing age of American population, greater degree of illness, public perceptions of nursing as a profession, ever-widening career options for women What were some of the solutions tried when there was a serious nursing shortage? increase the supply of nurses, create a less-trained worker to supplement the number of nurses, import nurses from other English-speaking countries Critical Thinking raises questions, gathers and assesses relevant information, open minded and sees alternate ways of thinking, formulates solutions Novice Thinkers Focuses on actions and needs rules and lacks confidence Expert Thinkers Knows when to bend the rules and assess and think through clearly before acting and is confident What is the nursing process? ADPIE - Assessment, analysis of Data, nursing care