Nurs 2300 Exam #1 Questions With Complete Solutions
American Civil War - Correct Answer 1861 to 1873
Response of catholic orders, sisters of charity, mercy and holy
cross provided care
Barriers of Nursing Professionalization
1.
2.
3.
4.
5. Correct Answer 1. variability of educational backgrounds
for entry
2. gender
3. historical influences
4. external conflicts
5. internal conflicts
Clara Barton
- Biggest achievement -
- Growing up she -
- Work? -
- Which war and what did she do? -
- To get rest she went to -
- Got government to - Correct Answer Founder of American
Red Cross
- took care of brother at a young age
- worked as a teacher 1st (1st free public school) and then went
to DC and worked for US Patin office) - one of the first women
to work for the government
,- Aided soldiers, changed focus to front lines and used own
money to bring supplies during Civil War and others
- Europe and ended up bringing Red Cross Ideas home
- sign geneva convention to make red cross legit
Define evidence based practice - Correct Answer approach to
the delivery of health care that integrates the best evidence from
research studies and patient care data with clinical expertise and
patient preferences and values
Describe guidelines and benefits of prereading for lectures
5 benefits: Correct Answer It helps improve understanding
and retention of lecture and reading assignments
- Rapidly determine the big picture
- pick out patterns
- the least you should do before lecture
- can increase your reading by 25% and comprehension by 10%
1. gives an idea of what instructor thinks is important
2. order on info
3. auditory mode of input
4. adds most recent info not in books
5. can ask questions
Describe how nursing has reacted to nursing shortages and how
those affect patients
Internal causes:
External causes:
, Remedies: Correct Answer Shortages:
- Imbalances of # of nurses working & positions to fill (due to
growth and aging of population)
- faculty to teach students (due to dr/masters programs not
preparing students to be educators, and being hired to more
lucrative positions)
- shortages more crucial in traditional setting (hospital)
- salary issues, long hours, increases responsibility for
unlicensed workers, significant responsibility with little
authority
- changes in demand for nursing services, increased age
population, greater degree of illness of hospitalized individuals,
public perceptions of nurses as a profession, ever widening
career options for women
create shorter RN programs
import nurses from other english speaking countries
traveling nurses for certain demographics (short periods of time)
Describe how profession has evolved:
- Before 1st century -->
- Early christian era -->
- Nursing in Middle ages -->
- Establishment of nursing in New World --> Correct Answer
- evidence of practice for the ill throughout history
- see evidence of nurses listed in bible
- 1st mention of nursing uniform in 1190 & nurses were in
religious orders
- during american revolution, catholic nuns were the only
organized group of nurses
American Civil War - Correct Answer 1861 to 1873
Response of catholic orders, sisters of charity, mercy and holy
cross provided care
Barriers of Nursing Professionalization
1.
2.
3.
4.
5. Correct Answer 1. variability of educational backgrounds
for entry
2. gender
3. historical influences
4. external conflicts
5. internal conflicts
Clara Barton
- Biggest achievement -
- Growing up she -
- Work? -
- Which war and what did she do? -
- To get rest she went to -
- Got government to - Correct Answer Founder of American
Red Cross
- took care of brother at a young age
- worked as a teacher 1st (1st free public school) and then went
to DC and worked for US Patin office) - one of the first women
to work for the government
,- Aided soldiers, changed focus to front lines and used own
money to bring supplies during Civil War and others
- Europe and ended up bringing Red Cross Ideas home
- sign geneva convention to make red cross legit
Define evidence based practice - Correct Answer approach to
the delivery of health care that integrates the best evidence from
research studies and patient care data with clinical expertise and
patient preferences and values
Describe guidelines and benefits of prereading for lectures
5 benefits: Correct Answer It helps improve understanding
and retention of lecture and reading assignments
- Rapidly determine the big picture
- pick out patterns
- the least you should do before lecture
- can increase your reading by 25% and comprehension by 10%
1. gives an idea of what instructor thinks is important
2. order on info
3. auditory mode of input
4. adds most recent info not in books
5. can ask questions
Describe how nursing has reacted to nursing shortages and how
those affect patients
Internal causes:
External causes:
, Remedies: Correct Answer Shortages:
- Imbalances of # of nurses working & positions to fill (due to
growth and aging of population)
- faculty to teach students (due to dr/masters programs not
preparing students to be educators, and being hired to more
lucrative positions)
- shortages more crucial in traditional setting (hospital)
- salary issues, long hours, increases responsibility for
unlicensed workers, significant responsibility with little
authority
- changes in demand for nursing services, increased age
population, greater degree of illness of hospitalized individuals,
public perceptions of nurses as a profession, ever widening
career options for women
create shorter RN programs
import nurses from other english speaking countries
traveling nurses for certain demographics (short periods of time)
Describe how profession has evolved:
- Before 1st century -->
- Early christian era -->
- Nursing in Middle ages -->
- Establishment of nursing in New World --> Correct Answer
- evidence of practice for the ill throughout history
- see evidence of nurses listed in bible
- 1st mention of nursing uniform in 1190 & nurses were in
religious orders
- during american revolution, catholic nuns were the only
organized group of nurses
