Deck 18: The Origins and Development of Nursing Education in Canada

Question 1

What was the mandate of the National Curriculum Committee, which was organized in the 1930s by the Canadian Nurses Association in response to the Weir Report?

A)Set entrance requirements
B)Develop nursing instructor prerequisites
C)Develop a curriculum model for schools of nursing
D)Create an evaluation framework for schools of nursing

Answer 1

Develop a curriculum model for schools of nursing

Question 2

Who was responsible for providing the financial support that was required to enable the School of Nursing at McGill University to remain open in the late 1920s?

A)Hospitals
B)Foundations
C)Corporations
D)Alumnae across Canada

Answer 2

Alumnae across Canada

Question 3

Which Canadian province was the first to have a university admit women for study?

A)Ontario
B)Alberta
C)New Brunswick
D)Newfoundland

Answer 3

New Brunswick

Question 4

What was the purpose of the Demonstration School that was established in Windsor, Ontario, by the Canadian Nurses Association in 1948, with funding from the Red Cross?

A)Evaluate students' health in relation to fewer working hours per week
B)Ascertain the feasibility of preparing nurses in less than three years
C)Evaluate the effects on student learning that took place solely in the hospital setting
D)Expand the classroom component of nursing training to include equal amounts of time in the classroom and the hospital

Question 5

In the 1920s, the Weir Report identified the health of nursing students as a concern. At that time, student nurses were required to work up to how many hours per week?

A)45
B)54
C)78
D)87

Question 6

A pilot study by the Canadian Nurses Association designed to determine whether schools were ready for a national voluntary accreditation program found that approximately which percentage of schools met the criteria for accreditation?

A)0%
B)16%
C)32%
D)48%

Question 7

Where were the nursing graduates of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries employed?

A)Hospitals
B)Church-based care groups
C)Community-based agencies
D)Private-duty in the homes of the sick

Question 8

Approximately how many schools of nursing were there in Canada by 1930?

A)30
B)130
C)300
D)330

Question 9

Who was the first lay nurse of New France?

A)Jeanne Mance
B)Florence Nightingale
C)Mary Adelaide Nutting
D)Sister Mary Ann Nodule

Question 10

Which province hosted the first nursing diploma program in Canada at an educational institution?

A)Alberta
B)Ontario
C)Manitoba
D)Nova Scotia

Question 11

Which important aspect of the original Nightingale school was lacking in the first hospital schools of North America?

A)Textbooks
B)Experienced nurses
C)Mission statements
D)Financial autonomy

Question 12

In which year did Canada have its first Department of Nursing in a university?

A)1915
B)1919
C)1923
D)1926

Question 13

Which of the following was recommended in the Hall Report of 1964?

A)Nursing education programs should be shorter than three years in length.
B)Schools of nursing should remain dependent on hospitals.
C)Nursing education programs should maintain the status quo in relation to students requiring extensive hours of nursing practice.
D)Nursing education should not be placed within the general education system.

Question 14

Which province hosted the first school of nursing in Canada?

A)Alberta
B)Quebec
C)Ontario
D)British Columbia

Question 15

Approximately what percentage of nurses in Canada held a baccalaureate degree as their highest level of education in 2007?

A)25%
B)35%
C)45%
D)55%