NURS2730 Test #1
1. Why is it essential to learn from nursing history? To advance the profession
2. Why is it essential to have knowledge from nurs- To encourage critical thinking and
ing history? shed light on the professions
complexity and diversity
3. Why is it essential to understand nursing history? Contributes to the development
of professional identity, and pro-
motes professional understand- ing
4. Early Nursing When the new colony of Canada was
devastated by epidemics and
When was nursing first used as an effective de- infectious disease
fence? Who delivered this nursing care?
Lay women, indigenous healers, and
midwives delivered this care
5. How did the indigenous population contribute to Health care knowledge and herbal
early nursing care? remedies
6. What were the grey nuns? What did they do? Catholic nursing sisters. They
Where were they located? visited sick people at their homes
during epidemics and were
established in Manitoba,
Saskatchewan, and the Northwest
Territories.
7. Who was the founder of modern nursing? What was Florence Nightingale was the
she credited with? founder of modern nursing. She was
credited with introducing sanitary
science as she introduced
, NURS2730 Test #1
hand hygiene whilst caring for
wounded soldiers.
8. What did Florence Nightingale do in the mid to She was responsible for leading
late 1800s? many social/political changes in
health care
9. What were "Hospital Schools" ? Students were ottered accommo-
dation and education in exchange for
nursing care, however this ed-
ucation was questionable
10. What are "Diploma Schools" ? They operated under the Nightin-
gale System. Had admission stan-
dards of good character, plain
english education, and christian
motives. Nurses learned sciences and
observed patients to report faithfully
to doctors
11. Describe the 1932 Weir Report -A survey of nursing education in
Canada
-Results stated insuflcient class-
room instruction and lack of vari- ety
in clinical experience
12. Describe the 1965 Royal Commission on Health Instrumental in transition away from
Services hospital training schools
13. What was the first practices of community-based The 1917-1918 influenza epidem-
nursing? ic
Tuberculosis
Venereal diseases
, NURS2730 Test #1
14. Describe the early Canadian Armed Forces Nurs- Lieutenants (Nursing sisters)
ing 1950s, NATO forces in Europe
1950-1953 Korean War
15. Where are Canadian Armed Force nurses placed now? Peace-keeping and conflict zones
16. What was Florence Nightingales vision of nurs-
ing? Florence saw nursing as re-
spectable work for white, mid- dle-
class women seeking an alter- native
lifestyle to a conventional woman
17. How has Nightingales vision of nursing affected Caused nursing to be structured by
nursing as a whole? gender, segregated by race, and
determined by class
18. Early History of Nursing: Describe Hospital Based In the 1930s during the economic
Nursing depression (nursing shortage)
Increased use of medical tech-
nologies was developing
19. Where was the first Masters of Nursing program At the University of Western On-
established? tario in 1959
20. When did the transition from hospital schools of 1960s
nursing to two year diploma programs happen?
21. When did the Alberta Task Force on Nursing Ed- 1975
ucation reccommend that all new graduates be
prepared at a baccalaureate level?
22. At the University of Alberta in 1991
1. Why is it essential to learn from nursing history? To advance the profession
2. Why is it essential to have knowledge from nurs- To encourage critical thinking and
ing history? shed light on the professions
complexity and diversity
3. Why is it essential to understand nursing history? Contributes to the development
of professional identity, and pro-
motes professional understand- ing
4. Early Nursing When the new colony of Canada was
devastated by epidemics and
When was nursing first used as an effective de- infectious disease
fence? Who delivered this nursing care?
Lay women, indigenous healers, and
midwives delivered this care
5. How did the indigenous population contribute to Health care knowledge and herbal
early nursing care? remedies
6. What were the grey nuns? What did they do? Catholic nursing sisters. They
Where were they located? visited sick people at their homes
during epidemics and were
established in Manitoba,
Saskatchewan, and the Northwest
Territories.
7. Who was the founder of modern nursing? What was Florence Nightingale was the
she credited with? founder of modern nursing. She was
credited with introducing sanitary
science as she introduced
, NURS2730 Test #1
hand hygiene whilst caring for
wounded soldiers.
8. What did Florence Nightingale do in the mid to She was responsible for leading
late 1800s? many social/political changes in
health care
9. What were "Hospital Schools" ? Students were ottered accommo-
dation and education in exchange for
nursing care, however this ed-
ucation was questionable
10. What are "Diploma Schools" ? They operated under the Nightin-
gale System. Had admission stan-
dards of good character, plain
english education, and christian
motives. Nurses learned sciences and
observed patients to report faithfully
to doctors
11. Describe the 1932 Weir Report -A survey of nursing education in
Canada
-Results stated insuflcient class-
room instruction and lack of vari- ety
in clinical experience
12. Describe the 1965 Royal Commission on Health Instrumental in transition away from
Services hospital training schools
13. What was the first practices of community-based The 1917-1918 influenza epidem-
nursing? ic
Tuberculosis
Venereal diseases
, NURS2730 Test #1
14. Describe the early Canadian Armed Forces Nurs- Lieutenants (Nursing sisters)
ing 1950s, NATO forces in Europe
1950-1953 Korean War
15. Where are Canadian Armed Force nurses placed now? Peace-keeping and conflict zones
16. What was Florence Nightingales vision of nurs-
ing? Florence saw nursing as re-
spectable work for white, mid- dle-
class women seeking an alter- native
lifestyle to a conventional woman
17. How has Nightingales vision of nursing affected Caused nursing to be structured by
nursing as a whole? gender, segregated by race, and
determined by class
18. Early History of Nursing: Describe Hospital Based In the 1930s during the economic
Nursing depression (nursing shortage)
Increased use of medical tech-
nologies was developing
19. Where was the first Masters of Nursing program At the University of Western On-
established? tario in 1959
20. When did the transition from hospital schools of 1960s
nursing to two year diploma programs happen?
21. When did the Alberta Task Force on Nursing Ed- 1975
ucation reccommend that all new graduates be
prepared at a baccalaureate level?
22. At the University of Alberta in 1991
