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Describe the importance of improving academic skills for aspiring nurses. - Answer To educate enough professional nurses to meet the health needs of the population. Understand the benefits of reflective journaling in learning - Answer To see how you have grown Recognize the wide range of settings and roles in which today's registered nurses practice, including advanced practice nursing roles. - Answer Settings: Military Clnics community - based facilities medical offices homes schools hospice hospitals ambulatory careinsurance companies manage companies scientist np CNMs certified nurse midwife CNSs - certified nurse specialist CRNAs - nurse anesthetists Identify the purpose of understanding your personality type and others. - Answer Being able to relate and communicate with others. Being empathetic to their needs. Florence Nightingale () - Answer Considered the founder of organized, professional nursing. She is best known for her contributions to the reforms in the British Army Medical Corps, improved sanitation in India, improved public health in Great Britain, use of statistics to document health outcomes, and the development of organized training for nurses. Mary Seacole () - Answer An independent woman w/ some wealth. She funded her own travel to the crimea. Nightingale refused her help. She established her own resources in a hotel and helped soldiers. Clara Barton () - Answer started the American Red Cross in 1881 Dorothea Dix () - Answer Pioneer crusader for elevation of standards of care for the mentally ill. Superintendent of Female Nurses of the Union Army. Mary E. Mahoney () - Answer The first trained African American nurse in the U.S. Lillian Wald - Answer Founder of Henry Street Settlement House in NY and Founder of Public Health Nursing Mary Breckenridge (1920s) - Answer Established the FNS/Frontier Nursing Services in 1925, health care services for rural Kentucky, The FNS is still in operation today and provides vital service to the rural communities of Kentucky. Breckenridge collected data that clearly documented a significant decrease in mortality with the nursing services provided by the FNS Discuss how the nursing profession has evolved. - Answer Training, education and licensure. professionalism through organization Rise of hospitals, science, bureaucracy Technology Men being able to do nursing. Describe how the public sees nurses. - Answer Men and women diverse professional. used to have more sexualized images. Identify ways in which students and nurses can promote the profession of nursing. - Answer Nurse- patient encounter How you look and act professionally ANA can serve as consultants to media. Take note and action noting negative portrays of nursing in media and advertisement. Describe how nursing has reacted to nursing shortages and how those affect patient outcomes. - Answer increased supply of nurses created a less trained worker to meet military and civilian needs. 1950's- shortened rn programs. 1960 - created position of inti manager- expected to take over certain task to relive nurses. 1970's - new positions emergency techs, PA's, respiratory therapists etc. 1980's- proposal by American Medical Association to create another nurse extender- registered care technician - ultimately rejected - import nurses from English speaking countries Companies help them with the nclex. redistributing rn's.