COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING IN CANADA Key Questions and Correct Answers

Jesuit Missionaries - male nurses that visited the sick town to town in North America Grey Nuns - a religious order made up of female nurses that ministered to the sick using comfort measures Jeanne Mance - first female nurse in Canada who founded Hotel Due Hospital in Montreal Colonization of French and British - brought disease to Aboriginal people: STIs, TB, measles, mumps, influenza, and smallpox Jacques Cartier - had scurvy, aboriginals gave a tea that provided vitamin C to treat it Marie Marguerite - founder of the Sisters of Charity from which the Grey Nuns arose Examples of Field Nursing - - St John's Ambulance - Nursing Care Troops Abroad - Nursing Corps of Canada Religious Organization Nurses - not practicing as nurses any more after the protestant reformation Community Health Nursing - a distinct specialty. A majority of them were self employed as private duty nurses Charitable Organizations - organized by maternal feminists and employed visiting nurses to provide care to poor and destitute families Indicators of the Health of Nations - maternal and infant mortality VON - established in the community and provided charitable care for the poor, and asked the middle class to pay what they could Public Health Nurse - government employee job, and focused on health education and prevention programs to combat communicable diseases, infant mortality, and morbidity in school aged children PHN as the first line for ____ - - TB control - child hygiene programs - school inspection programs To prevent children from growing up and becoming dependent ____ - they were removed from economic production so they wouldn't get sick and could focus on their education Baby programs were developed because ___ - the elite middle class was concerned about the immigration population having a different way of doing things Routine assessments for visiting babies - - mother and baby - childcare practices - home environment - breastfeeding practices Germ Theory - a reason PHN was created after realizing spread of disease would be prevented through population based health education, health promotion, and lifestyle modifications Immigration - poor and uneducated people immigrated to Canada because of poor economic conditions