Deck 1: A Brief History of Professional Nursing in the United States

Question 1

Benefits of the apprenticeship model of nursing education included (Select all that apply. )

A)a well-trained graduate nursing hospital staff.
B)opportunities for further education in nursing.
C)providing a skilled but inexpensive workforce.
D)providing working-class women employment.
E)reforms in the care of sick and injured individuals.

Answer 1

providing a skilled but inexpensive workforce.
providing working-class women employment.
reforms in the care of sick and injured individuals.

Question 2

What change is anticipated that will guide advanced practice nursing roles?

A)Changes in federal funding for advanced education
B)Declining demand for advanced practice roles
C)Requirement of a doctor of nursing practice
D)Third-party payer restrictions on this type of practice

Answer 2

Requirement of a doctor of nursing practice

Question 3

Which event eventually led to the creation of military nursing?

A)American Civil War
B)Spanish-American War
C)World War I
D)World War II

Answer 3

Spanish-American War

Question 4

Florence Nightingale's views about trained nurses were most influenced by her

A)experiences in wartime.
B)ideas about sanitation.
C)relationships with physicians.
D)view of education.

Question 5

A nursing instructor explains to students that the major goal of the Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses of the United States and Canada was to

A)improve working conditions for students.
B)obtain legal recognition for the profession.
C)raise and standardize the training of nurses.
D)reverse discrimination in admissions policies.

Question 6

Today's nurse understands that legal recognition for nurses was imperative to

A)allow nurses to expand beyond the hospital setting.
B)lobby for better wages and working conditions.
C)protect the public from untrained nurses.
D)provide hospitals with accreditation requirements.

Question 7

Which patient would most likely have been cared for in a hospital in the 19th to early 20th century?

A)Dying patient
B)Contagious patient
C)Homeless patient
D)Woman in labor

Question 8

Social events surrounding the Great Depression that had a major impact on American's emerging health care system included (Select all that apply. )

A)Blue Cross was developed as a prepaid health insurance plan.
B)large hospitals experienced increasing numbers of nonpaying patients.
C)many hospitals found their nursing schools too expensive to operate.
D)nurses were hired in hospitals in increasing numbers.
E)religious orders began supplying trained nurses,cutting the cost of nursing.

Question 9

Lillian Wald's contribution to nursing can best be described as the

A)creation of community health nursing.
B)development of college-based nursing schools.
C)establishment of the Navy Nurse Corps.
D)foundation of maternal-child nursing.

Question 10

What influence did Loretta Ford and Henry Silver have on the nursing profession?

A)Advocated for laws allowing autonomous practice
B)Created a major scholarship for nursing education
C)Designed the first doctoral nursing program
D)Opened the first nurse practitioner program

Question 11

Which nursing organizations are responsible for providing continuing education,establishing practice standards,and offering certification examinations for their members?

A)Councils of nurse educators
B)National specialty organizations
C)State boards of nursing
D)State nurses associations

Question 12

Discrimination against African American nurses began to wane during

A)Kennedy's presidency.
B)the civil rights era.
C)the Vietnam War.
D)World War II.

Question 13

When nursing registration laws were enacted,a "registered nurse" was defined as someone who had (Select all that apply. )

A)attended an acceptable nursing program.
B)fit the definition of a professional nurse.
C)had not been convicted of any felonies.
D)passed a board evaluation examination.
E)studied under a standardized curriculum.

Question 14

A faculty nurse explaining the stratification in nursing roles seen today tells students that the most important event leading to this development was

A)desegregation in nursing.
B)limited nursing opportunities.
C)the Korean conflict.
D)World War II.

Question 15

Between the years 1950 and 1967,the number of nurses and assistive personnel rose dramatically in part as a result of the influence of the

A)Children's Bureau.
B)Hill-Burton Act.
C)Nurse Training Act.
D)Social Security Act.

Question 16

Historically,women were considered the obvious choice for nursing sick patients,because

A)caring for others was an extension of their homemaker role.
B)early nurses were nuns,so the public was used to women in nursing.
C)men,who had education,were reluctant to try nursing.
D)women were often at home anyway,so caregiving was easy.

Question 17

The development of associate degree (AD)nursing programs has had which effect on nursing today? (Select all that apply. )

A)A wider student pool has been able to study nursing.
B)AD programs have helped ease the nursing shortage.
C)Hospitals have been influenced to close their training programs.
D)Social status for graduates of nursing programs has improved.
E)The public has suffered some confusion about nursing education.

Question 18

Nurses in private duty positions faced several hardships,including (Select all that apply. )

A)a shortage of nurses as schools limited enrollment.
B)a surplus of nurses starting in the mid-1920s.
C)employment that was sporadic and seasonal.
D)opportunities primarily working with poorer families.
E)pay that continued to be lower than other jobs.

Question 19

Community health nursing has been vital in shaping America's health system and nursing in general by providing (Select all that apply. )

A)advocacy regarding matters of health and welfare.
B)autonomous nursing practice in patients' homes.
C)means to check on patients' compliance with treatment.
D)novel activities in health promotion and disease prevention.
E)treatment that didn't rely on the patient's ability to pay.

Question 20

Mildred Montag's major contribution to nursing is considered to be

A)encouraging minority women and men to enter nursing.
B)establishing associate degree nursing programs.
C)fighting for improved wages and recognition for nurses.
D)paving the way for the military to use trained nurses.

Question 21

Men in nursing in the early to mid-20th century faced which barriers to practice and education? (Select all that apply. )

A)Denial of professional status in the military
B)Frequent use of trained nurses as orderlies
C)Limited areas of health care in which to practice
D)Physical inability to perform delicate tasks
E)Societal bias that nursing was women's work

Question 22

Enrollment in college-based nursing programs was initially hindered by (Select all that apply. )

A)a lack of qualified applicants.
B)little social and financial support.
C)poorly trained faculty members.
D)restrictive admissions criteria.