NUR 129 Test 1 correctly answered
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Beginning of Nursing - correct answer ✔✔Began as a desire to keep people healthy and to
provide comfort and assurance to the sick
Stages of Nursing - correct answer ✔✔Nursing from ancient times to the nineteenth century:
Early civilization, Christianity, Middle Ages, and fifteenth to nineteenth century. Civil war to
present day American nursing
Early Civilization - correct answer ✔✔Egyptian physicians are believed to have specialized in
certain diseases (such as internal diseases, fractured bones, and wounds). They also hired
women, later known as midwives, to assist with childbirth. These women were the first
recorded nurses
Greece - correct answer ✔✔The Greeks believed in Apollo, the Greek god of healing and prayed
to him for magic cures for their illness. 400 B.C., the famous Greek physicians Hippocrates
believed that disease had natural, magical causes
Diagnosis - correct answer ✔✔Identifying the disease scientifically
Prognosis - correct answer ✔✔Predicting the possible outcome
Cure - correct answer ✔✔Restoration of health
Roman Empire - correct answer ✔✔After 300 B.C., early physicians built on the groundwork for
their Egyptian and Greek predecessors. The Romans are best known for advances in the health
of the public
, India - correct answer ✔✔Early hospitals were staffed by male nurses who were required to
meet four qualifications: knowledge of the manner in which drugs should be prepared for
administration, cleverness, devotedness to the patient, and purity of mind and body
Christianity - correct answer ✔✔Nursing began to have a formal and more clearly defined role.
Led by the belief that love and caring for others were important, women made the first visits to
sick people, male gave nursing care and buried the dead. Nursing became a respected vocation
Middle Ages - correct answer ✔✔More hospitals were built. Nurses delivered custodial care and
depended on physicians for direction
Nurse midwifery, as one of the oldest nursing roles, flourished.
Much nursing care was provided by monks and nuns, which was segregated by sex
The Crusades - correct answer ✔✔Europe rose to reclaim the Holy Land from the Moslems
Hospitals developed on the battlefields
Knight Hospitalizers of St. John's of Jerusalem cared for the injured - their symbol, a bright red
cross
Knights organized nursing care
Had a probationary period before you could wear the "white" robes of knighthood
Nursing became acceptable for women and encouraged by the Catholic Church
The Renaissance - correct answer ✔✔Dark ages of nursing
Nursing orders to take a vow of poverty, chastity, and obedience
Number of nurses reduced to smaller possible number (to economize)
Limited women's freedom
Doctors did most of the nursing jobs
Nurses did mostly cleaning, laundry, and scrubbing
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Beginning of Nursing - correct answer ✔✔Began as a desire to keep people healthy and to
provide comfort and assurance to the sick
Stages of Nursing - correct answer ✔✔Nursing from ancient times to the nineteenth century:
Early civilization, Christianity, Middle Ages, and fifteenth to nineteenth century. Civil war to
present day American nursing
Early Civilization - correct answer ✔✔Egyptian physicians are believed to have specialized in
certain diseases (such as internal diseases, fractured bones, and wounds). They also hired
women, later known as midwives, to assist with childbirth. These women were the first
recorded nurses
Greece - correct answer ✔✔The Greeks believed in Apollo, the Greek god of healing and prayed
to him for magic cures for their illness. 400 B.C., the famous Greek physicians Hippocrates
believed that disease had natural, magical causes
Diagnosis - correct answer ✔✔Identifying the disease scientifically
Prognosis - correct answer ✔✔Predicting the possible outcome
Cure - correct answer ✔✔Restoration of health
Roman Empire - correct answer ✔✔After 300 B.C., early physicians built on the groundwork for
their Egyptian and Greek predecessors. The Romans are best known for advances in the health
of the public
, India - correct answer ✔✔Early hospitals were staffed by male nurses who were required to
meet four qualifications: knowledge of the manner in which drugs should be prepared for
administration, cleverness, devotedness to the patient, and purity of mind and body
Christianity - correct answer ✔✔Nursing began to have a formal and more clearly defined role.
Led by the belief that love and caring for others were important, women made the first visits to
sick people, male gave nursing care and buried the dead. Nursing became a respected vocation
Middle Ages - correct answer ✔✔More hospitals were built. Nurses delivered custodial care and
depended on physicians for direction
Nurse midwifery, as one of the oldest nursing roles, flourished.
Much nursing care was provided by monks and nuns, which was segregated by sex
The Crusades - correct answer ✔✔Europe rose to reclaim the Holy Land from the Moslems
Hospitals developed on the battlefields
Knight Hospitalizers of St. John's of Jerusalem cared for the injured - their symbol, a bright red
cross
Knights organized nursing care
Had a probationary period before you could wear the "white" robes of knighthood
Nursing became acceptable for women and encouraged by the Catholic Church
The Renaissance - correct answer ✔✔Dark ages of nursing
Nursing orders to take a vow of poverty, chastity, and obedience
Number of nurses reduced to smaller possible number (to economize)
Limited women's freedom
Doctors did most of the nursing jobs
Nurses did mostly cleaning, laundry, and scrubbing
