ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Florence Nightingale - CORRECT ANSWER - "founder of modern nursing"
Lowered mortality rate of soldiers in Crimean War 42-->2% (asepsis)
Nightingale SON
Nursing was an art and a science
Advocated health maintenance (open windows, etc.)
Linda Richards - CORRECT ANSWER - 1st trained nurse in US (taught @ Nightingale's
SON)
Est. training programs in other countries
Dorothea Dix - CORRECT ANSWER - Nursing leader in Civil War
Champion for mental health (PTSD, etc.)
Clara Barton - CORRECT ANSWER - Teacher, not a nurse
Founder of American Red Cross
Worked to allow RC to operate in peace and war times
Lillian Wald - CORRECT ANSWER - Founded the Henry Street Settlement
Devoted to public health and community care nursing
Mary Adelaide Nutting - CORRECT ANSWER - Est. university education for nurses
1st nurse to work as a professor
Lorette Ford - CORRECT ANSWER - Est. 1st Nurse Practitioner program in the US
, Mary Eliza Mahoney - CORRECT ANSWER - 1st trained African American nurse in the
US
Changed the face of nursing & broke barriers to minoriry nurses could get into nursing school
Beginnings of Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER - Handmaidens to physicians
Was mostly men for a long time
Feminization of Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER - Nursing schools held women to
Victorian stereotypes of women (good breeding, submission to authority, sensitive)
Men were not allowed in nursing schools originally
Factors that affect the future of nursing - CORRECT ANSWER - Aging of America
Cultural Diversity
Professional Diversity in nursing
Technological Developments
Nursing Shortage
Mary Seacole - CORRECT ANSWER - Jamaican healer/doctress
Offered help to Nightingale but was refused
Set up her own care for soldiers during Crimean War
Recognized as a significant minority nurse
Virginia Henderson - CORRECT ANSWER - Needs Theory
Needs Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Assist the patient w/ activities until they recover
or die.
Nurses should be college educated in both science and art