Deck 1: Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the Development of Nursing

Question 1

After the First and Second World Wars, the Canadian Red Cross Society and nursing groups noted an important trend in health care that is still articulated in the Lalonde and Romanow report. What is that trend?

A) the formation of nursing groups such as the CNA and professional organizations
B) the political and economic action taken to correct the wrongs suffered by the military
C) the establishment of governments' social and political responsibility in health care
D) the need for strong, well-established public health programs, health education, immunization, hygiene, and care of those living in poverty

Answer 1

the need for strong, well-established public health programs, health education, immunization, hygiene, and care of those living in poverty

Question 2

How is Mary Agnes Snively significant to the development of Canadian nursing?

A) She established the mission of Grey Nuns to new settlers.
B) She established the International Council of Nursing.
C) She established the first national organization for nursing.
D) She established certification for nurses to become experts.

Answer 2

She established the first national organization for nursing.

Question 3

Why were the Middle Ages significant for nursing?

A) Religions and church-sanctioned secular nursing orders offered the only legitimate avenue for women wishing to become nurses.
B) There was an upsurge in the respect afforded to nursing and midwifery, and nurses began to practise autonomously.
C) Healing arts in Denmark and Greece were performed in sacred ceremonies by priests, priestesses, or shamans.
D) Most nurses were women of high social status.

Answer 3

Religions and church-sanctioned secular nursing orders offered the only legitimate avenue for women wishing to become nurses.

Question 4

In which of the following influences do the helping professions find their origin?

A) inhumane actions
B) perceived social needs
C) serving one's own needs
D) visualizing the suffering of others

Question 5

Why do professions exist?

A) to meet the needs of employers
B) to meet the needs of individuals
C) to meet the needs of society
D) to meet the needs of families

Question 6

What historical influences affected nursing as a moral discipline?

A) technology
B) society
C) spirituality
D) oppression

Question 7

Which of the following had the greatest influence on nursing traditions in Canada?

A) Britain
B) Aboriginal persons
C) France
D) Germany

Question 8

What is the term that relates to knowledge gained through observation and experience?

A) empirical
B) Cartesian philosophy
C) values
D) moral thought

Question 9

When was the "Dark Period of Nursing," when convalescent patients, prostitutes, prisoners, and drunkards provided hospital nursing care?

A) during the Reformation
B) during the Crusades
C) during the Middle Ages
D) during the early Christian era

Question 10

What does the CNA's vision for the future of nursing embrace?

A) the varied roles that nurses must play in order to provide holistic care to a diverse and changing population
B) the formation of joint nursing professional organizations in both Canada and the United States
C) the important role of military and public health nursing
D) the relationship between social need and the evolution of the practice of nursing

Question 11

Why is the concept of social need important to the ethical foundations of the nursing professional?

A) Nurses must determine the health needs of society.
B) Nursing finds its origin, purpose, and meaning within the context of perceived social need.
C) Theories of sociology are utilized by nursing scholars, many of whom view them as conceptual frameworks for nursing practice.
D) Social need determines the boundaries of the ethical principles of distributive justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence.

Question 12

Why does the social status of women affect the status of the nursing profession?

A) Nursing has traditionally been a profession of women.
B) Throughout history, nurses have been afforded higher social status.
C) Women of higher social status rarely become nurses.
D) Women are more skilled than men at nurturing others.

Question 13

Which of the following statements best describes Florence Nightingale?

A) She believed in traditional expectations for women.
B) She was a nurse and increased soldiers' mortality rates.
C) She believed in nurses restricting their careers.
D) She was a social reformer and statistician.

Question 14

What does the term empirical relate to?

A) serving God and thy neighbour
B) knowledge gained through observation and experience
C) healing through religious intervention, touching of religious relics, chanting, and other methods
D) the enforcement of religious doctrine related to the status of women in society

Question 15

What is the most critical factor that influences nursing practice?

A) the traditional role of healers
B) the role of women in society
C) the religious and spiritual aspects of health care
D) the introduction of male nurses into the profession

Question 16

For which of the following is empathy a motive?

A) meeting the needs of others
B) moral reasoning and action
C) becoming a nurse
D) determining right from wrong