UTA INTRO TO NURSING EXAM 1
REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Lavinia Dock - ANSWER-nursing leader and women's rights activist whom helped
Lillian Wald! ; cared for babies and ill and would educate on disease and
transmission
Margret Sanger - ANSWER--American leader of the movement to legalize birth
control during the early 1900's.
-As a nurse in the poor sections of NYC she had seen the suffering caused by
unwanted pregnancy.
-Founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. >American Birth Control League>
Planned Parenthood.
Jessie Sleet Scales and Elizabeth Tyler - ANSWER-- Established Stillman House
- Branch of Henry Street Settlement
- Served "colored people" through community health nursing programs
- Their courageous activism broke through racial barriers
Anita McGee - ANSWER-McGee and Robb had to enlist untrained persons to care
for the sick and wounded during the Spanish-American War, set the stage for the
development of a permanent Army Nurse Corps (1901) and Navy Nurse Corps
(1908)
National Commitee of Nursing during WW2 - ANSWER-chaired by Mary A.Nutting
(prof @ Columbia) and Jane A.Delano (director of nursing @Red Cross)
-nurses can be militarily ranked now!
-nursing school for young girls: Army School of Nursing and for college girls : Vassar
Training Camp
Goldmark Report (1923) - ANSWER-Assessed the preparation of nurses for
community health nursing; basic hospital training, post graduate classes, and
fieldwork in public health nursing education.
Mary Breckinridge - ANSWER-- founded the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky in
1925 to provide family-centered primary health care to rural populations (on
horseback!)
WW2 & Nursing - ANSWER-Civil Works Administration (CWA)- nurses would help in
rural & schools too
⬆️ in Charity Care which ⬆️ more patients in hospitals bc less people could afford
private nurse.
Social Security Act - public health ⬆️
Cadet Nurse Corp
Cadet Nurse Corps - ANSWER-Established during World War II to provide an
abbreviated training program designed to meet the need of the war effort (many girls
wanted to join bc free housing, tuition, school!)
, Julie O. Flikke - ANSWER-first nurse to be promoted to colonel in US army
Hill-Burton Act of 1946 - ANSWER-funding for the improvement and expansion of
hospital services ($ for new hospitals which meant shortage of nurses which they
though of team nursing but it took away from patient bedside care..)
Affordable Care Act - ANSWER-An expansion of medicaid, most of employers must
provide health insurance, have insurance or face surtax, prevents rejection based on
pre-existing condition. Also referred to as "Obamacare", signed into law in 2010.
911 and nursing - ANSWER-- nurses to be taught how to handle disaster, attacks
and other events so NOW they would be prepared
Woodhull Study - ANSWER-nursing is invisible to the media and consequently to the
public
Flexner Report (1910) - ANSWER-groundbreaking work to reform standards in
medical education
Criteria widely used as benchmark for status of occupations
Has had strong influence on nursing education
Hall Report - ANSWER-5 attributes of professional
1. use professional organizations as primary references
2. belief in public service
3. self-regulation
4. commit to profession not just b/c of $$
5. autonomy (make own decisions)
Profession vs Occupation - ANSWER-Profession- a paid occupation, especially one
that involves prolonged training and a formal qualification.
(more prepared and commited)
Education - college / universityProlonged educationMental creativityDecision making
- science & evidenceValues & ethicsCommitment & personal identification are
strongOwn decision making (autonomous)
Occupation- someone's regular work/profession
Training on job ,Work is largely manual, Work is supervised, Material reward
Is Nursing a Profession or Occupation? Why? - ANSWER-An emerging profession
(occupation) due to the diff lvls of education ( we have ADN, BSN, and
masters/doctorates. )
3 characteristics nurses need - ANSWER-Altrusitic(help others) , Specialized
Knowledge , and Autonomy/Ethics
Kelly's Criteria of a Profession - ANSWER-Accountability- personal integrity
Autonomy- Still under development in nursing
Altruistic- Motivated by service
Associations- Advocates for the profession
Body of Knowledge- specialized
REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Lavinia Dock - ANSWER-nursing leader and women's rights activist whom helped
Lillian Wald! ; cared for babies and ill and would educate on disease and
transmission
Margret Sanger - ANSWER--American leader of the movement to legalize birth
control during the early 1900's.
-As a nurse in the poor sections of NYC she had seen the suffering caused by
unwanted pregnancy.
-Founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. >American Birth Control League>
Planned Parenthood.
Jessie Sleet Scales and Elizabeth Tyler - ANSWER-- Established Stillman House
- Branch of Henry Street Settlement
- Served "colored people" through community health nursing programs
- Their courageous activism broke through racial barriers
Anita McGee - ANSWER-McGee and Robb had to enlist untrained persons to care
for the sick and wounded during the Spanish-American War, set the stage for the
development of a permanent Army Nurse Corps (1901) and Navy Nurse Corps
(1908)
National Commitee of Nursing during WW2 - ANSWER-chaired by Mary A.Nutting
(prof @ Columbia) and Jane A.Delano (director of nursing @Red Cross)
-nurses can be militarily ranked now!
-nursing school for young girls: Army School of Nursing and for college girls : Vassar
Training Camp
Goldmark Report (1923) - ANSWER-Assessed the preparation of nurses for
community health nursing; basic hospital training, post graduate classes, and
fieldwork in public health nursing education.
Mary Breckinridge - ANSWER-- founded the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky in
1925 to provide family-centered primary health care to rural populations (on
horseback!)
WW2 & Nursing - ANSWER-Civil Works Administration (CWA)- nurses would help in
rural & schools too
⬆️ in Charity Care which ⬆️ more patients in hospitals bc less people could afford
private nurse.
Social Security Act - public health ⬆️
Cadet Nurse Corp
Cadet Nurse Corps - ANSWER-Established during World War II to provide an
abbreviated training program designed to meet the need of the war effort (many girls
wanted to join bc free housing, tuition, school!)
, Julie O. Flikke - ANSWER-first nurse to be promoted to colonel in US army
Hill-Burton Act of 1946 - ANSWER-funding for the improvement and expansion of
hospital services ($ for new hospitals which meant shortage of nurses which they
though of team nursing but it took away from patient bedside care..)
Affordable Care Act - ANSWER-An expansion of medicaid, most of employers must
provide health insurance, have insurance or face surtax, prevents rejection based on
pre-existing condition. Also referred to as "Obamacare", signed into law in 2010.
911 and nursing - ANSWER-- nurses to be taught how to handle disaster, attacks
and other events so NOW they would be prepared
Woodhull Study - ANSWER-nursing is invisible to the media and consequently to the
public
Flexner Report (1910) - ANSWER-groundbreaking work to reform standards in
medical education
Criteria widely used as benchmark for status of occupations
Has had strong influence on nursing education
Hall Report - ANSWER-5 attributes of professional
1. use professional organizations as primary references
2. belief in public service
3. self-regulation
4. commit to profession not just b/c of $$
5. autonomy (make own decisions)
Profession vs Occupation - ANSWER-Profession- a paid occupation, especially one
that involves prolonged training and a formal qualification.
(more prepared and commited)
Education - college / universityProlonged educationMental creativityDecision making
- science & evidenceValues & ethicsCommitment & personal identification are
strongOwn decision making (autonomous)
Occupation- someone's regular work/profession
Training on job ,Work is largely manual, Work is supervised, Material reward
Is Nursing a Profession or Occupation? Why? - ANSWER-An emerging profession
(occupation) due to the diff lvls of education ( we have ADN, BSN, and
masters/doctorates. )
3 characteristics nurses need - ANSWER-Altrusitic(help others) , Specialized
Knowledge , and Autonomy/Ethics
Kelly's Criteria of a Profession - ANSWER-Accountability- personal integrity
Autonomy- Still under development in nursing
Altruistic- Motivated by service
Associations- Advocates for the profession
Body of Knowledge- specialized
