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Lifespan Development: A Psychological Perspective By Martha Lally and Suzanne Valentine-French This Open Education Resource (OER) textbook was funded by a grant from the College of Lake County Foundation and supported by the Business and Social Sciences Division. This textbook can be found at: Publication is under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 unported license to view a copy of this license, visit Table of Contents C...

Gerontological Nursing 2023 Exam Questions Correct Answers Aging is A Natural Process and not a what? - ANSWER- Disease What is Chronological age? - ANSWER- Exact age from birth What is Biological age? - ANSWER- Age determined by physiology rather than chronology What is Functional age? - ANSWER- Age in terms of functional performance What is an excellent indicator of health status and physical ability? - ANSWER- Muscle mass Which of these methods is prefered? - ANSWER- Assessment o...

Intro to Professional Nursing-Exam 1 Latest Update Graded A Florence Nightingale (1820) Treated British soldiers during Crimean War Established first training school for nurses-London Wrote "Notes on Nursing-identified unique body of nursing knowledge" Dorothea Dix Advocate for mentally ill Clara Barton Founded Red Cross Mary Eliza Mahoney 1st African American trained nurse Isabel Hampton Robb Founded NLN & ANA Lillian Wald Founded Henry St. Settlement Margaret Sanger Birth control movem...

Sociology Cumulative Exam Review with Verified Solutions In a bureaucracy, what is employment typically based on? a. connections (who you know) c. red tape b. first come, first serve d. specific qualifications D Which of the following are not examples of a subculture? a. San Francisco's Chinatown. c. the Navajo of the Southwest. b. Miami's Little Havana. d. none of the above C What is the correct order of the continuum of dating and courtship? a. casual dating, marriage c. st...

Gerontological Nursing 2023 Exam Questions Correct Answers Aging is A Natural Process and not a what? - ANSWER- Disease What is Chronological age? - ANSWER- Exact age from birth What is Biological age? - ANSWER- Age determined by physiology rather than chronology What is Functional age? - ANSWER- Age in terms of functional performance What is an excellent indicator of health status and physical ability? - ANSWER- Muscle mass Which of these methods is prefered? - ANSWER- Assessment o...

In early times, nurses were- - Answer Servants Women of religious orders Wealthy women (as acts of charity) Florence Nightingale - Answer *The founder of modern nursing* Born in 1820, began nurses' training in Germany at age 30 Tended to wounded British soldiers at Scutari Hospital in Turkey during the *Crimean War* Reformed British Army Hospitals Established the first training school for nurses in London. Wrote a famous book in 1859 called *Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it...

Chapter 1 Overview of Gerontologic Nursing questions and answers latest top score. Earliest reference to need for older adult care - correct answers.1925 anonymous column in AJN "Care of the Aged" geriatric nursing conference group - correct lished in 1962 during ANA convention Division of Geriatric Nursing Practice - correct answers.Established by ANA in 1966 geriatric nursing - correct rned with the assessment of nursing needs of older people; planning and imple...

Aging is A Natural Process and not a what? - ANSWER- Disease What is Chronological age? - ANSWER- Exact age from birth What is Biological age? - ANSWER- Age determined by physiology rather than chronology What is Functional age? - ANSWER- Age in terms of functional performance What is an excellent indicator of health status and physical ability? - ANSWER- Muscle mass Which of these methods is prefered? - ANSWER- Assessment of Biological age and Functional age What are some basic Activit...

Late adulthood - last developmental stage beginning at 65 life span (longevity) - the maximum amout of time a person can live under optimal conditions graying america - so many people are living longer that we are in the midst of a graying america. n 1900, only 1 person in 25 was over the age of 65. Today, that figure has more than tripled, to 1 in 8. By mid-century, more than 1 in 5 Americans will be 65 years of age or older. By the year 2050, we expect to see the percentage of Ameri...

Gerontological Nursing 2023 Exam Questions Correct Answers Aging is A Natural Process and not a what? - ANSWER- Disease What is Chronological age? - ANSWER- Exact age from birth What is Biological age? - ANSWER- Age determined by physiology rather than chronology What is Functional age? - ANSWER- Age in terms of functional performance What is an excellent indicator of health status and physical ability? - ANSWER- Muscle mass Which of these methods is prefered? - ANSWER- Assessment o...