Nursing 1130: Exam One- UConn Final
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Florence Nightingale - Answer Defined nursing education curriculum by setting up first
nursing school in London (1860)
Yale University - Answer First US school that had a nursing program for education and NOT
need
Lillian Wald - Answer Founded many programs: Henry Street Settlement, visiting nurses,
Department of Special Needs, Children's Bureau, etc.
Mary Breckinridge - Answer Introduced midwives and spread healthcare to rural areas
John Snow - Answer Found contaminated water caused cholera
Clara Barton - Answer Founder of the American Red Cross (1881) and aided soldiers in civil
war
Loretta Ford - Answer Co-founder of the nation's first nurse practitioner program and was
Dean of Nursing at Rochester University
Federal Nursing Training Act of 1964 - Answer Gave funding to collegiate nursing programs
NINR (National Institute of Nursing Research) - Answer Opened in 1983 to help nurses study
at the graduate level
The Future of Nursing report - Answer Report in 2010 that used data to support nursing and
their higher education
What was public health like in the 1700s? - Answer Unsanitary conditions that caused
massive outbreaks
Endemic - Answer A disease regularly found among people in a certain area
, Pandemic - Answer An epidemic of infectious disease across a large region, like continents
Polio Vaccine - Answer Polio's largest breakout was 1952, and the vaccine was created for it
in 1955 (oral version made in 1960)
Hospitals in 1820s - Answer "Poorhouses" made to medically serve poor people
Pesthouse - Answer Place for people with contagious diseases to stay (quarantine)
Where were the first hospitals located? - Answer NYC, Boston, Philadelphia
Who owned the first hospitals? - Answer Primarily physicians, and the conditions were
terrible
Narcotic Control Act of 1929 - Answer Hospitals were made for drug addicted patients
Change in ER protocols in 1980-90s - Answer ERs now have to screen/stabilize patients
regardless of their ability to pay
Joint Commission - Answer Issued standards to increase consumer awareness
When was the blueprint for insurance established? - Answer 1929, laid foundation for BC/BS
Who opposed the National Insurance Plan in the 30s? - Answer The AMA
When (decade) was the Patient Bill of Rights created? - Answer 1970s-80s
What happens when Medicare patients return within 30 days of their hospital visit with the
same ailment? - Answer Hospital loses reimbursement from the Medicare payments
How much of the payment did the first insurance plans cover? - Answer Only the hospital
fees to not take money from private physicians
What is the DRG? - Answer Developed diagnostic system to control costs for Medicare
reimbursement
Test Questions and Already Solved
Solutions 2026 Updated.
Florence Nightingale - Answer Defined nursing education curriculum by setting up first
nursing school in London (1860)
Yale University - Answer First US school that had a nursing program for education and NOT
need
Lillian Wald - Answer Founded many programs: Henry Street Settlement, visiting nurses,
Department of Special Needs, Children's Bureau, etc.
Mary Breckinridge - Answer Introduced midwives and spread healthcare to rural areas
John Snow - Answer Found contaminated water caused cholera
Clara Barton - Answer Founder of the American Red Cross (1881) and aided soldiers in civil
war
Loretta Ford - Answer Co-founder of the nation's first nurse practitioner program and was
Dean of Nursing at Rochester University
Federal Nursing Training Act of 1964 - Answer Gave funding to collegiate nursing programs
NINR (National Institute of Nursing Research) - Answer Opened in 1983 to help nurses study
at the graduate level
The Future of Nursing report - Answer Report in 2010 that used data to support nursing and
their higher education
What was public health like in the 1700s? - Answer Unsanitary conditions that caused
massive outbreaks
Endemic - Answer A disease regularly found among people in a certain area
, Pandemic - Answer An epidemic of infectious disease across a large region, like continents
Polio Vaccine - Answer Polio's largest breakout was 1952, and the vaccine was created for it
in 1955 (oral version made in 1960)
Hospitals in 1820s - Answer "Poorhouses" made to medically serve poor people
Pesthouse - Answer Place for people with contagious diseases to stay (quarantine)
Where were the first hospitals located? - Answer NYC, Boston, Philadelphia
Who owned the first hospitals? - Answer Primarily physicians, and the conditions were
terrible
Narcotic Control Act of 1929 - Answer Hospitals were made for drug addicted patients
Change in ER protocols in 1980-90s - Answer ERs now have to screen/stabilize patients
regardless of their ability to pay
Joint Commission - Answer Issued standards to increase consumer awareness
When was the blueprint for insurance established? - Answer 1929, laid foundation for BC/BS
Who opposed the National Insurance Plan in the 30s? - Answer The AMA
When (decade) was the Patient Bill of Rights created? - Answer 1970s-80s
What happens when Medicare patients return within 30 days of their hospital visit with the
same ailment? - Answer Hospital loses reimbursement from the Medicare payments
How much of the payment did the first insurance plans cover? - Answer Only the hospital
fees to not take money from private physicians
What is the DRG? - Answer Developed diagnostic system to control costs for Medicare
reimbursement
