Nu 131 Exam 1 Questions and Answers Graded A 2024

Year the first school of nursing was founded - 1863 Place the first school of nursing was founded - Kaiserswerth, Germany The first nursing school's most famous pupil - Florence Nightingale, ; known as the founder of modern nursing Who is Clara Barton? What did she do? - Founder of the American Red Cross Who is Lillian Wald? - Founder of public health nursing Who is Dorothea Dix? - -An American school teacher; -Advocate for the mentally ill. (1840's) champion building of mental asylums as places of refuge. Difficulty with funding the up-keep of facilities-became ran down. -Organized a corps of female nurses to serve in the Civil War. Florence Nightingale's contributions to nursing (just 4) - Stressed environment, the need for careful observation, holistic care, and critical thinking in nursing. In early civilization, illness was believed to be caused by - Supernatural forces Knowledge of disease process occurred with the - Advent of bacteriology Affordable Care Act - An expansion of medicaid, most of employers must provide health insurance, have insurance or face surtax, prevents rejection based on pre-existing condition. Also referred to as "Obamacare", signed into law in 2010. Healthy People 2020 - A set of disease prevention and health promotion objectives for Americans to meet during the second decade of the new millennium; two major goals was to increase quality and years of life and to help eliminate health disparities Managed Care System Objective - Decrease the number of hospitalizations Health can be defined as: - Balance between internal and external forces Objective for health promotion - Achieve an optimum level of wellness Empowerment - Client - centered decision making Mental Health is best described as - Realistic and adaptive