NSG 310 FINAL EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

NSG 310 FINAL EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Topic 1 1. Examine the historical foundations of the nursing profession. • nursing history provides students with a: sense of professional identity, useful methodological research skill, context for evaluating information • American Civil War- Volunteer women demonstrated effectiveness of skilled nursing on improving outcomes, Emergence of nurse training schools • First Three Training Schools for Nurses- nurses under superintendent, graduate private duty nurses, long days of patient service, training at end of day spent in the ward • 1901: Army Nurse Corps, 1908: Navy Nurse Corps • World War I: American red cross and Jane Delano • Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses of the United States &Canada: Focus: Advance and standardize training of nurses (Renamed the ANA) • Progressive Era and Community Health Nursing- started prevention and health promotion • 1930s: improve economy = graduate nurses are better, new hospital income, affordable nurse wages = surplus of graduate nurses willing to work for minimum wage • 1941: World war IIo 1943: Frances Payne Bolton, U.S. Congress, authorized bill → U.S. Public Health Service established Cadet Nurse Corp, whose focus was to increase the number of professional nurses by financially subsidizing nursing education • Cadet Nurse Corps- allowed nurses to be in school with free tuition but practice nursing in the military • Redesign of nursing edu. • 1950s- hospitals hired nurses more but still clashed w/physicians and admins • Rockefeller Foundation endowed the establishment of two university-based nursing schools, Yale (1924) and Vanderbilt (1930) • 1920 and 1930s- Premise of Baccalaureate Programs • African American Nurseso Late 1800s: Separate hospitals and schools o 1952: All state nurses associations had dissolved racial restrictions o 1971: National Black Nurses Association • Male nurseso Selective Services Act: Male nurses were denied professional status and served as enlisted personnel in health-related positions o 1955: Korean Conflict: Legislation allowed appointment of male nurses as reserve officers in the Army, Navy, and Air Force • Post WWII: o Hill-Burton Act of 1946: Federal funds for hospital construction and new health centers, Advances in medicine • Nursing shortage- Growing elderly population, crowding and restricted admissions o 1964: Nurse Training Act: Scholarships, loans, recruitment, school construction and maintenance, and special educational projects o 1950 to 1967