Florence Nightingale correct answers -established the first nursing philosophy based on health
maintenance and restoration
-developed the first organized program for training nurses
-first practicing nurse epidemiologist
-saw nursing as in charge of someone else's health
-lady with the lamp
-improved sanitation (linked poor sanitation with cholera and dysentery; reduced mortality rates
from 42.7% to 2.2% in 6 months)
First organized program for training nurses correct answers The Nightingale Training School for
Nurses at St. Thomas Hospital in London
American Civil War (1861-1865) correct answers -volunteer women demonstrated effectiveness
of skilled nursing on improved outcomes
-emergence of nurse training schools based on Nightingale apprenticeship model
Nightingale's Apprenticeship Model of Nursing correct answers -provided physicians and
hospitals with an inexpensive and skilled workforce
-provided working-class women with the opportunity for employment outside the home
1873: Establishment of the First Three Training Schools for Nurses in US correct answers -pupil
nurses under direction of nursing superintendent
-required 2-3 years of intense hospital work
-upon program completion, they could be employed as graduate private duty nurses
-women who were trained nurses saw social status elevated as a result of training
Nurse Training Program correct answers -long days of patient service
,-training classes were held at end of long days on wards
-nursing duties included patient care, cleaning wards and operating rooms, meal preparation,
sterilization of instruments, and assisting physicians
1894: Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses of the US and Canada correct
answers -focus was to advance and standardize training of nurses
-goal was to promote fellowship and establish/maintain universal standard of training
What was society of superintendents of training school for nurses of the US and Canada
renamed? correct answers National League for Nursing Educators (NLNE)
Early 1900's correct answers -US Bureau of Census: 109,000 untrained nurses and midwives
compete with 12,000 graduate nurses
-Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the US and Canada focused on legal recognition of trained
nurses (to protect the public: legal registration for trained nurses)
1896: Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the US and Canada correct answers -purpose to achieve
legal recognition for trained nurses to counter the belief that "an ignorant woman who is not fit
for anything else is good enough for a nurse"
What was the Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the US and Canada renamed in 1912? correct
answers American Nurses Association (ANA)
Enactment of Nurse Licensure correct answers -a registered nurse had attended an acceptable
nursing program and passed a board evaluation examination
-1923: all states enacted nurse registration laws
Nursing Practice in Early 20th Century America correct answers -hospitals (student nurses and
head nurse)
-private duty nurses (registry, autonomous practice, contagious disease, childbirth, fractures,
strokes, mental illness)
, Private Duty Nurses correct answers -graduated nurses employed by the middle/upper class
households
-seasonal work: busy winters and slow summers
-1920 surplus of nurses
-1928 burgess report: a study of the plight of the graduated nurse
Opinions of Nursing Change correct answers -before, many physicians and hospital
administrators did not value the presence of graduate nurses in their hospitals
-many private duty nurses increased their clinical medical knowledge and skills on their own
-physicians and families requested these nurses
-hospitals began to add registered nurses to the staff in the late 1930s
Progressivism and Public Health Nursing correct answers -social change: urbanization,
industrialization, influx of European immigrants (overcrowding, filthy streets, and poor working
condition)
-Lillian Wald: established role for nursing in the community because the needs of NY residents
were limitless
What did Lillian Wald and Mary Brewster establish? correct answers Henry Street Settlement
House and Henry Street Visiting Nurse Services
Lillian Wald and Visiting Nurses correct answers -expansion to: school nursing, industrial
nursing, TB nursing, and infant welfare nursing
-worked with Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and organized home visits to the company's
customers who were ill
What did Lillian Wald found in 1912? correct answers The National Organization for Public
Health Nursing