Test Bank For Contemporary Nursing Issues, Trends,
and Management 9th Edition by Barbara Cherry, Susan
R. Jacob
Palliative care team - ANSWER A clinical nurse leader, clinical nurse specialist, and
a RN ( all are nationally certified in palliative and hospice; a counselor; medical
director; and representative from pastoral care)
Child life specialist - ANSWER For children
Palliative care - ANSWER Treatment of any patient who is experiencing a life-
altering,debilitating, and or life-threatening illness or injury
Palliative team assists with: - ANSWER Symptom management and assessment of
family dynamics, provides emotional and spiritual support, assists in setting goals to
maintain optimal care with consideration of cultural aspects, discharge planning and
communication deficits
Palliative team goal: - ANSWER Maintain highest optimal functioning and highest
quality comprehensive care
Florence Nightingale & Mary Seacole - ANSWER Trailblazers, who began the work
of organized nursing
Evolved nursing - ANSWER A profession focused on meeting the needs of the
people it serves and preparing providers who can meet those needs
Prehistoric nursing - ANSWER Delineated by health practices strongly guided by
beliefs of magic, religion, and superstition
Egypt - ANSWER First to use concept of suture
First to be recorded as developing community planning that resulted in decrease in
public health problems
One early health problem
(Egypt) - ANSWER Spread of disease through contaminated water sources
Special laws passed:
(Egypt) - ANSWER Cleanliness
Food use and preservation
Drinking
Exercise
Sexual relations
Egypt health behaviors - ANSWER Carried out to accommodate the Gods
Practiced expressively to appease the spirits of the dead
, Egyptians - ANSWER Developed calender and writing "recorded history"
16 century b.c.
Pharmacopoeia
(Egypt) - ANSWER Classified more than 700 drugs
Assisted in disease care and management
Shiphrah and Puah
(Egypt) - ANSWER Nurses used by kings and other aristocrats to deliver babies
and care for young, older adults and those that were sick
Mosaic Code
(Palestinian) - ANSWER 1)Moses-leader
2)System of laws
3)One of the first organized methods of disease control and prevention, contained
public health laws that dictated personal, family, and public hygiene
4)Ex. Laws written to prohibit the eating of animals that were dead more than 3 days
and to isolate individuals who were thought to have communicable diseases
5)Hebrew priests were health inspectors
Greece - ANSWER Believed God's and goddesses of Greek mythology controlled
health and illness
Aesculapius
(Greek) - ANSWER 1)The God of medicine
2)Temples built to honor, were designated to care for the sick
3)Carried a staff intertwined with serpents "represented wisdom and immortality"
4)Staff believed to be model of today's medical caduceus
Hippocrates
(Greek) - ANSWER 1)Considered "Father of Medicine"
2)First to attribute death to natural causes rather than supernatural causes and
curses of God
3)Teachings emphasized the patient- centered approach and use of scientific
method for solving problems
India - ANSWER 1)Earliest cultures were Hindu
Sacred book "Brahmanism" known as the VEDAS, used to guide health care
practices
2)Practice of surgery was very well developed
3)Importance of prenatal care to mother and infant was well understood
VEDAS
(India) - ANSWER Considered to be some of the oldest written material,
emphasized hygiene and prevention of sickness
Described major and minor surgeries
China - ANSWER Believed in yin and yang philosophy
Yin- feminine forces, considered negative and passive
and Management 9th Edition by Barbara Cherry, Susan
R. Jacob
Palliative care team - ANSWER A clinical nurse leader, clinical nurse specialist, and
a RN ( all are nationally certified in palliative and hospice; a counselor; medical
director; and representative from pastoral care)
Child life specialist - ANSWER For children
Palliative care - ANSWER Treatment of any patient who is experiencing a life-
altering,debilitating, and or life-threatening illness or injury
Palliative team assists with: - ANSWER Symptom management and assessment of
family dynamics, provides emotional and spiritual support, assists in setting goals to
maintain optimal care with consideration of cultural aspects, discharge planning and
communication deficits
Palliative team goal: - ANSWER Maintain highest optimal functioning and highest
quality comprehensive care
Florence Nightingale & Mary Seacole - ANSWER Trailblazers, who began the work
of organized nursing
Evolved nursing - ANSWER A profession focused on meeting the needs of the
people it serves and preparing providers who can meet those needs
Prehistoric nursing - ANSWER Delineated by health practices strongly guided by
beliefs of magic, religion, and superstition
Egypt - ANSWER First to use concept of suture
First to be recorded as developing community planning that resulted in decrease in
public health problems
One early health problem
(Egypt) - ANSWER Spread of disease through contaminated water sources
Special laws passed:
(Egypt) - ANSWER Cleanliness
Food use and preservation
Drinking
Exercise
Sexual relations
Egypt health behaviors - ANSWER Carried out to accommodate the Gods
Practiced expressively to appease the spirits of the dead
, Egyptians - ANSWER Developed calender and writing "recorded history"
16 century b.c.
Pharmacopoeia
(Egypt) - ANSWER Classified more than 700 drugs
Assisted in disease care and management
Shiphrah and Puah
(Egypt) - ANSWER Nurses used by kings and other aristocrats to deliver babies
and care for young, older adults and those that were sick
Mosaic Code
(Palestinian) - ANSWER 1)Moses-leader
2)System of laws
3)One of the first organized methods of disease control and prevention, contained
public health laws that dictated personal, family, and public hygiene
4)Ex. Laws written to prohibit the eating of animals that were dead more than 3 days
and to isolate individuals who were thought to have communicable diseases
5)Hebrew priests were health inspectors
Greece - ANSWER Believed God's and goddesses of Greek mythology controlled
health and illness
Aesculapius
(Greek) - ANSWER 1)The God of medicine
2)Temples built to honor, were designated to care for the sick
3)Carried a staff intertwined with serpents "represented wisdom and immortality"
4)Staff believed to be model of today's medical caduceus
Hippocrates
(Greek) - ANSWER 1)Considered "Father of Medicine"
2)First to attribute death to natural causes rather than supernatural causes and
curses of God
3)Teachings emphasized the patient- centered approach and use of scientific
method for solving problems
India - ANSWER 1)Earliest cultures were Hindu
Sacred book "Brahmanism" known as the VEDAS, used to guide health care
practices
2)Practice of surgery was very well developed
3)Importance of prenatal care to mother and infant was well understood
VEDAS
(India) - ANSWER Considered to be some of the oldest written material,
emphasized hygiene and prevention of sickness
Described major and minor surgeries
China - ANSWER Believed in yin and yang philosophy
Yin- feminine forces, considered negative and passive
