Transition to RN Exc
Excelsior College Transition
Course Study Guide Q&A
QUESTION ANSWER
Who focused on hygiene and
sanitation and believed
Florence Nightingale
strongly in continuing
education?
Who organized the American
Red cross and was responsible
Clara Barton
for relief operations during the
Civil War?
Who was the nurse who
became responsible for
Dorothea Dix
construction of state
psychiatric hospitals?
Conductor of undergrown
railraod who assisted Clara
Harriet Ross Tubman
Barton to tend to wounded
soldiers during the Civil War.
Born into slavery, nursed Union
soldiers, worked to improve
Sojourner Truth
sanitary conditions, got food
and clothing for black soldiers
Radical changes in nursing Isabel Hampton Robb
education, reduced student
work day from 10 to 8 and
,eliminated FREE private duty
services
Created FNS Frontier Nursing
Service- 1st midwifery training Mary Breckinridge
school
did a study which resulted in
establishment of associate Mildred Montag
degree nursing education
Nursing leader and women's
right activist giving women the
right to vote- also a key figure Lavinia Dock
in community nursing and
introduced nuring in schools
Early theorist who taught "a
patient is a person who
Virginia Henderson
requires help toward
independence"
America's first African
Mary Mahoney
American Nurse
a psychiatric nurse- described
Hildegard Peplau
Nurse- Client relationships
America's first trained nurse-
also key figure in development
of nursing education, moved Melinda Ann (Linda) Richards
from hosp to hosp an
improvement campaign
opened FIRST birth control
Margaret Sanger
clinic with her sister in Brooklyn
Founder of public health Lillian Wald
, nursing - established a
neighborhood nursing service
in NYC
Religion- *R* Protestant
Churches- women subordinate
The Reformation
to men- nurse most menial of
servants
Earliest counterpart to
community health nurses-
worldly items were of no
concern to nurses, nurses Order of the Deaconesses
required strict obedience,
devotion, and setting aside
themselves
Roman Catholic society - sister
nurses nursed cholera pt's Sisters of Mercy
Mercy Hospitals
sisters that visited pt's in
homes, hosp, and poorhouses
and asylums. Deveoped Sisters of Charity
educational programs for
Nurses
Earliest organization for Men in
Nursing. Raised standards of
education, culture. Care of the Monastic Orders
sick was above others duties of
Monk. Emphasized Bathing
Founded during Crusades-
Military Nursing Orders
staffed 2 hospitals in Jerusalem
*Military* *M* MilitaryNursing Crimean War
Service formed, Florenece
Nightingale cleaned up the
Excelsior College Transition
Course Study Guide Q&A
QUESTION ANSWER
Who focused on hygiene and
sanitation and believed
Florence Nightingale
strongly in continuing
education?
Who organized the American
Red cross and was responsible
Clara Barton
for relief operations during the
Civil War?
Who was the nurse who
became responsible for
Dorothea Dix
construction of state
psychiatric hospitals?
Conductor of undergrown
railraod who assisted Clara
Harriet Ross Tubman
Barton to tend to wounded
soldiers during the Civil War.
Born into slavery, nursed Union
soldiers, worked to improve
Sojourner Truth
sanitary conditions, got food
and clothing for black soldiers
Radical changes in nursing Isabel Hampton Robb
education, reduced student
work day from 10 to 8 and
,eliminated FREE private duty
services
Created FNS Frontier Nursing
Service- 1st midwifery training Mary Breckinridge
school
did a study which resulted in
establishment of associate Mildred Montag
degree nursing education
Nursing leader and women's
right activist giving women the
right to vote- also a key figure Lavinia Dock
in community nursing and
introduced nuring in schools
Early theorist who taught "a
patient is a person who
Virginia Henderson
requires help toward
independence"
America's first African
Mary Mahoney
American Nurse
a psychiatric nurse- described
Hildegard Peplau
Nurse- Client relationships
America's first trained nurse-
also key figure in development
of nursing education, moved Melinda Ann (Linda) Richards
from hosp to hosp an
improvement campaign
opened FIRST birth control
Margaret Sanger
clinic with her sister in Brooklyn
Founder of public health Lillian Wald
, nursing - established a
neighborhood nursing service
in NYC
Religion- *R* Protestant
Churches- women subordinate
The Reformation
to men- nurse most menial of
servants
Earliest counterpart to
community health nurses-
worldly items were of no
concern to nurses, nurses Order of the Deaconesses
required strict obedience,
devotion, and setting aside
themselves
Roman Catholic society - sister
nurses nursed cholera pt's Sisters of Mercy
Mercy Hospitals
sisters that visited pt's in
homes, hosp, and poorhouses
and asylums. Deveoped Sisters of Charity
educational programs for
Nurses
Earliest organization for Men in
Nursing. Raised standards of
education, culture. Care of the Monastic Orders
sick was above others duties of
Monk. Emphasized Bathing
Founded during Crusades-
Military Nursing Orders
staffed 2 hospitals in Jerusalem
*Military* *M* MilitaryNursing Crimean War
Service formed, Florenece
Nightingale cleaned up the
