NURSING 106 EXAM 1 VERIFIED STUDY GUIDE
Gender % in nursing - Answers - 93% women
7% men
CNS - Answers - Clinical Nurse Specialist (top of most clinical ladders)
Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) - Answers - -Certified nurse practitioner (CNP)
-CNS
-Certified nurse midwife (CNM)
-CRNA
-Clinical nurse leader (CNL)
Nursing Salaries - Answers - Median Salary: $65,470
Lowest 10%: less than $45,040
Highest 10%: $94,720
Unions - Answers - 21% of RNs are members of unions or are covered by union
contracts
Florence Nightingale - Answers - -"The Lady with the Lamp"
-Crimean War (1853-1856)
-Improved the unsanitary conditions at a British base hospital
-1860: Established first training school for nurses at St.Thomas' Hospital in London
The American Civil War - Answers - -Lack of professional nurses to care for the
wounded
-Dorethea Dix emerges as war leader
-Clara Barton begins her own distribution of materials needed to provide relief to the
soldiers
Dorethea Dix - Answers - -Emerges as a war leader
-Trains nurses in NY
-African American Women become nurses (Sojourner Truth & Harriet Tubman)
Clara Barton - Answers - -Began her own distribution of materials needed to provide
relief to the soldiers
-"Angel of the Battlefield"
-Founder of American Red Cross
The First Training School for Nurses - Answers - Founded in 1873 & modeled after
Florence Nightingale St. Thomas' Hospital in London
Isabel Hampton - Answers - Protests the lack of continuity across nursing education
Gender % in nursing - Answers - 93% women
7% men
CNS - Answers - Clinical Nurse Specialist (top of most clinical ladders)
Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) - Answers - -Certified nurse practitioner (CNP)
-CNS
-Certified nurse midwife (CNM)
-CRNA
-Clinical nurse leader (CNL)
Nursing Salaries - Answers - Median Salary: $65,470
Lowest 10%: less than $45,040
Highest 10%: $94,720
Unions - Answers - 21% of RNs are members of unions or are covered by union
contracts
Florence Nightingale - Answers - -"The Lady with the Lamp"
-Crimean War (1853-1856)
-Improved the unsanitary conditions at a British base hospital
-1860: Established first training school for nurses at St.Thomas' Hospital in London
The American Civil War - Answers - -Lack of professional nurses to care for the
wounded
-Dorethea Dix emerges as war leader
-Clara Barton begins her own distribution of materials needed to provide relief to the
soldiers
Dorethea Dix - Answers - -Emerges as a war leader
-Trains nurses in NY
-African American Women become nurses (Sojourner Truth & Harriet Tubman)
Clara Barton - Answers - -Began her own distribution of materials needed to provide
relief to the soldiers
-"Angel of the Battlefield"
-Founder of American Red Cross
The First Training School for Nurses - Answers - Founded in 1873 & modeled after
Florence Nightingale St. Thomas' Hospital in London
Isabel Hampton - Answers - Protests the lack of continuity across nursing education
