NURS 1871 CSCC TEST BANK UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
EXAM SUCCESS GUIDE
●● Florence Nightingale
Answer: the founder of professional nursing in England, Crimean War
cleaning techniques, pioneered nursing education separate from the
hospital setting
- was opposed to "germ theory" of disease causation
●● Nurse training school of Women's Hospital of Philadelphia
Answer: Established in 1872, reputed to be the first permanent school of
nursing in the US
●● Linda Richards
Answer: Purported to be the first educated nurse in the US, a graduate of
the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston
●● Mary Mahoney
Answer: The first African American graduate nurse
●● Lillian Wald
, Answer: a public health nurse who founded the Henry Street Settlement
house to provide home nursing care to the immigrant populations on the
Lower East Side of New York
- first to use term public health nursing to describe the work of nurses in
patients' homes as well as in other community settings
●● Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the US and Canada
Answer: originally founded in 1896 with the intent of achieving
licensure for nurses; became the American Nurses Association
●● American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools of Nursing
Answer: a national nursing organization founded in 1893 to elevate the
standards of nursing education; later became the National League for
nursing Edu and ultimately the National League for Nursing (NLN)
●● ANA response to National Recovery Act
Answer: 1. any plan for Econ recovery must consider unemployed
nurses
2. most effective type of nursing service should be made available to all
patients
3. 8-hour day or 48 hr week for nurses
4. salaries of nurses above sustenance levels
5. nurses caring for acutely ill patients should not be expected to work
more than 8 hrs out of 24
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
EXAM SUCCESS GUIDE
●● Florence Nightingale
Answer: the founder of professional nursing in England, Crimean War
cleaning techniques, pioneered nursing education separate from the
hospital setting
- was opposed to "germ theory" of disease causation
●● Nurse training school of Women's Hospital of Philadelphia
Answer: Established in 1872, reputed to be the first permanent school of
nursing in the US
●● Linda Richards
Answer: Purported to be the first educated nurse in the US, a graduate of
the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston
●● Mary Mahoney
Answer: The first African American graduate nurse
●● Lillian Wald
, Answer: a public health nurse who founded the Henry Street Settlement
house to provide home nursing care to the immigrant populations on the
Lower East Side of New York
- first to use term public health nursing to describe the work of nurses in
patients' homes as well as in other community settings
●● Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the US and Canada
Answer: originally founded in 1896 with the intent of achieving
licensure for nurses; became the American Nurses Association
●● American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools of Nursing
Answer: a national nursing organization founded in 1893 to elevate the
standards of nursing education; later became the National League for
nursing Edu and ultimately the National League for Nursing (NLN)
●● ANA response to National Recovery Act
Answer: 1. any plan for Econ recovery must consider unemployed
nurses
2. most effective type of nursing service should be made available to all
patients
3. 8-hour day or 48 hr week for nurses
4. salaries of nurses above sustenance levels
5. nurses caring for acutely ill patients should not be expected to work
more than 8 hrs out of 24
