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Discuss how the nursing profession has evolved - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Throughout the past 200 years, the profession of nursing has been
influenced by the social, political and economic climate of the times as well
as by the technological advances and the theoretical shifts in medicine and
science.
Describe how the public sees nurses - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Some view nurses
as highly sexualized or as not being diverse in gender and race, they tend
to view them as young white women. Also most people do not appreciate
the complexity and range of today's professional nursing role; very trusted
profession. #1 in honesty and profession every year.
,Identify ways in which students and nurses can promote the profession of
nursing. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔advocate for a safe and healthy work
environment, problem solving by identifying issues, improve communication
between coworkers and patients; profession by one-patient-at- a-time
speak out against negative portrayals
ANA (American Nurses Association) can enhance image by offering
services as consultants to media and setting professional standards
become sensitive to portrayals of nurses and nursing in the media
confront/contact those responsible for negative portrayals of nursing in the
media
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Famous nurse, affluent.
Focused on prisons and military. Reduced mortality rate by 2% by feeding
the people and keeping them clean/sanitation/ventilation. Supervised 38
,nurses. Founded first nursing school in St. Thomas Hospital in London;
mother of modern nursing (lady with the Lamp), 1st nursing researcher, first
person to apply statistics to nursing, improved supplies and sanitation,
supervised team of 38 nurses, reduced mortality rates, founded St. Thomas
hospital which is the model for nursing education in the U.S.
Clara Barton - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Angel of the Battlefield. Founded the Red
Cross is 1881. Was not a nurse, worked previously as a copier;
campaigned for supplies
Dorothea Dix - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔superintendent of civil war and advocate for
mentally ill & prisoners of union army nurses
Mary E. Mahoney - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1st african american to graduate from
nursing school from new england hospital for women and children
Mary Breckenridge (1920s) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔established the frontier
nursing service to provide healthcare to poor/isolated patients in the
appalachian mountains of eastern kentucky. Did work as midwife, often on
horseback.
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, Lillian Wald - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Founded Henry Street Settlement in New
York which offered health care and social services to the members of the
community; mother of public health nursing
Describe how nursing has reacted to nursing shortages and how those
affect patient outcomes? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔External shortages: can include
changes in demand for nursing services, and increasing age of American
population, greater acuity (degree of illness) of the hospitalized individual,
public perceptions of nursing as a profession and ever-widening career
options for women.
Internal shortages: salary issues, long hours, increased responsibility for
unlicensed workers and significant responsibility with little authority.
Two solutions attempted: 1) increase the supply of nurses 2) create less-
trained workers to supplement the number of nurses.
Identify social and demographic factors that influence the development of
nursing in the United States. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Aging population and
increasing diversity. Since people are living longer the population of older
people is increasing (baby boomers) this population or group is more likely