BSNC 1020 MODULE 1-5 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

BSNC 1020 MODULE 1-5 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Professionalism Behaviors, skills, and attributes required or expected of members of a profession. - Conduct, aims or qualities that characterize or make up a profession or profession. -Requires specialized knowledge, accountability, autonomy, inquiry, collegiality, collaboration, innovation & ethics and values How do nurses display professionalism? Provide quality care to patients thru: - Commitment to profession led regulation - Professional ethics - Personal health & fitness to practice - Legal & ethical dimensions to nursing What year did nursing start in Canada? 1639 - Hotel Dieu Quebec Florence Nightingale - founder of modern nursing and a reformer of hospital sanitation methods What did Florence Nightingale do? - Insisted on better hygiene in field hospitals and founded the first school of nursing - Crimean war: reduced mortality from 42-2.2%.Hand-washing/nature working on patient's body was her mainstay. First health statistician (collected & analyzed health data). - improved standards of nursing care in the mid-nineteenth century - known for reducing mortality during the Crimean war through improved sanitation measures - triggered a shift in public attitudes towards the acceptability of women doing nursing outside of the home Florence Nightingale and Crimean War - She went to the war and helped turn the mortality rate around. 1854, she and 38 nurses entered the battlefield near Scutari, Turkey and cared for the sick and injured. They had few supplies and little outside help. She insisted on establishing sanitary conditions and providing quality nursing care. This immediately reduced the mortality rate. Her dedicated service both during the day and night when she and her nurses made rounds carrying oil lamps created a public image if the lady with the lamp. Nightingale Fund - established by the English government to promote nurse's training in England - used to establish the first Nightingale school of Nursing, at St Thomas' Hospital in London Nightingale System of Education (Nightingale Model) - 1860: Nightingale created a financially independent school of nursing associated with St. Thomas' Hospital in London, England. - Became standard of nursing education in England and worldwide for next century. -This was a hospital-based model overseen by a trained superintendent, trained staff members acting as instructors, and a cadre of nursing students who provided the bulk of the care What was the results of Nightingale's success in the public attitudes? - This triggered a remarkable shift in public attitudes toward the acceptability of women during nursing work outside the home. Nursing became an instrument of women's emancipation against the prevailing middle-class restrictions on women working outside the home. What advocate role did Nightingale take on? - the health of people - health care reform - education preparation for nursing - She became an advocate for the health of people, healthcare reform, and educational preparation for nursing through voluminous writings and lobbying of members of parliament to act on these views. These views were from health data that she collected and analyzed. -She responded viscerally to situations that frustrated and angered her including the lack of active role for women in Victorian society and the lack of social action by religious men and women in general. Nightingale Model of Nursing Education