Intro to Nursing Past, Present, Future

After to the Protestant Reformation, what type of people acted as nurses?

• Nuns

• Prostitutes

• Monks

• Priests

Answer explanation

In the 1500-1800s:

-nuns, monks, and priests were nurses

-rich people had physicians

-prostitutes and women would nurse to avoid jail prior to 1500s (protestant reformation)

Which of the following is accurate about nursing during the Protestant Reformation?

• Sons of Charity provided care to poor

• caring for others is unrespectable

• terrible conditions

• improved hospital sanitation

Which of the following is accurate about nursing in the Renaissance?

• Nurse breastfed infants

• The poor was cared for in the hospital

• Nurses did housekeeping

• Nurses cared for rich people in their home

Answer explanation

Also, the Elizabethan Poor Law helped poor, blind, and orphans.

Which of the following people played a nursing role in the Crimean War?

• Dix

• Nightingale

• Seacole

• Whitman

Answer explanation

Mary Seacole was a Jamaican healer that worked with Nigthingale in Crimean War. She was the first nurse practitioner!

Which of the following is accurate about Florence Nightingale?

• published "Notes on Nursing"

• first nurse practitioner

• was a statistician

• founded modern nursing

Answer explanation

Also about Nightingale:

- Crimean War Lady of the Lamp

- created rose diagrams (statistician)

- improved sanitation in hospitals

- made is acceptable for women to nurse

Which of the following is accurate about Dorothy Dix?

• was a nurse superintendent in Union Army

• became 1st nurse practitioner

• propelled the Asylum Movement

• Lady of the Lamp

Answer explanation

Dorothy Dix:

- important for social reform for the mentally ill

Which of the following is accurate about Walt Whitman?

• volunteered as a nurse in the Civil War

• established a men's nursing program

• propelled the Asylum Movement

• philanthropist

Answer explanation

Walt Whitman was a poet that volunteered as a nurse in Civil War.

Dorothy Dix>Asylum Movement

Darius Mills>men's nurse program

Which of the following is accurate about Clara Barton?

• founded American Red Cross

• distributed food/medication in Civil War

• opened a free public school

• became head nurse

Answer explanation

Clara Barton:

-originally a teacher

-had no formal nurse training

Which of the following accomplishments occurred in the 20th century?

• Nurses Registration Act

• American Nursing Association

• improved hospital sanitation

• established role of nurse practitioner

• 1st Established State Board of Nursing in NC

Answer explanation

Nursing in 20th Century:

- Nurse Practice Act

- Nurse practitioner expands PCP roles to nurses

- 1st accredited school established

- in 1970 all states require licensure

Which of the following is accurate about Linda Richards?

• made first written patient reports

• mentored by Nightingale

• created night shift nursing

• rallied against physician opposition

• established nursing programs in Japan and US

Answer explanation

Linda Richards

- first trained nurse in America (graduated New England Hospital Training School)