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Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, and Management – 8th Edition by Cherry | Complete Test Bank"** This expertly compiled test bank is based on Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, & Management (8th Edition) by Barbara Cherry and Susan R. Jacob. Ideal for nursing students and educators, the...

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Chapter 01: The Evolution of Professional Nursing



MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. What accomplishment is Clara Barton best known for?
a. Becoming the first black public health nurse
b. Establishing the Henry Street Settlement
c. Founding the American Red Cross
d. Publicizing the inadequacies of hospital-based nursing schools
ANS: C
The American Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton in 1882, to be of assistance in
efforts to provide supplies to the battlefields and hospitals. Barton also sets up a postwar
service to find missing soldiers.

DIF: Knowledge

2. Students are assigned to write to their state leaders about an issue affecting their community.
One student writes about the need among rural community for greater access to acute
care services. Which piece of legislation should the student use as a reference?
a. Social Security Act
b. Hill-Burton Act
c. Sheppard-Towner Act
d. U.S. Civil Service Act
ANS: B
The purpose of the Hill-Burton Act was to provide funding to construct hospitals and to help
states in plan for other health care facilities in accordance with the needs of communities.

DIF: Knowledge

3. The practice of public health nursing and the Henry Street Settlement are credited to
a. Mary Breckenridge.
b. Mary Seacole.
c. Clara Barton.

, d. Lillian Wald.
ANS: D
Lillian Wald, a pioneer in public health nursing, is best known for the development
and establishment of the Henry Street Settlement.

DIF: Knowledge

4. Occupational health nursing features beliefs similar to those of which early nursing pioneer?
a. Lillian Wald
b. Florence Nightingale
c. Clara Barton

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d. Mary Seacole

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ANS: A
Lillian Wald was a pioneer in public health nursing, and is best known for the
development and establishment of the first viable practice for public health nurses.

DIF: Comprehension

5. What historical event first led to the recognition of the contribution of blacks to nursing?
a. Florence Nightingale’s acceptanceofblack nurses into the first nursing school
b. The contributions of black nurses at the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital
in America
c. Mary Williams and Frances Rose are listed as nurses in the City of
Baltimore Directory.
d. The work done by wives of wealthy black nobles who carried food and
medicine from house to house during the Middle Ages
ANS: C
1840—Two black women, Mary Williams and Frances Rose, who founded Nursing Sisters
of the Holy Cross, are listed as nurses in the City of Baltimore Directory.

DIF: Comprehension

6. World War I contributed to the advancement of health care by
a. increasing the number of private care hospitals and decreasing the role of
public health services.
b. employing a large number of civilians to provide care to returning soldiers
through the Red Cross.
c. introducing specialists in nursing such as nurse anesthetists.
d. increasing the number of community health nurses.
ANS: C
World War I offered nurses a chance to enter new fields of specialization, as is seen in
the example of nurse anesthetists, who became part of surgical teams at the front lines.

DIF: Comprehension

7. What was an original purpose of the Social Security Act of 1935?
a. Increase research that focused on minority groups
b. Provide medical care for chemically impaired persons
c. Ensure health care for older adults through a national insurance system
d. Decrease the public’sfinancial burden by limiting services offered by local
health departments
ANS: C
By providing health insurance for older adults, the Social Security Act of 1935 set the
precedent for the passage of the Medicare and Medicaid Acts that followed in 1965, but
the act also provided maternal and child welfare services, rehabilitation for the mentally
and physically challenged, medical care for blind individuals and crippled children, and
unemployment benefits.

DIF: Comprehension

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