Deck 1: Professional Nursing: History and Development of the Nursing Profession

Question 1

In the 1970s, this publication established the connection between social issues and the role of the nurse:

A) The IOM Report on Medicine
B) The IOM Core Competencies
C) Hospitals, Paternalism, and the Role of the Nurse
D) National Nursing Journal

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What did Isabel Hampton Robb do as the first president of the American Nurses Association?

A) Ensured that vulnerable populations were recognized by nurses
B) Wrote forceful editorials
C) Obtained medical care for mothers and babies in rural America
D) Organized the nursing profession at the national level

Answer 2

D

Question 3

How did the Industrial Revolution affect health care?

A) It brought many more caretakers into the workforce as doctors and nurses.
B) It created crowded workplaces that were breeding grounds for disease.
C) It forced children to become independent at a younger age.
D) It brought about many new public health laws.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

How did the 1948 Brown report on nursing education change the focus of nursing education?

A) Nursing schools began to view accreditation and standardization as necessary steps for success.
B) Nurses were then required to attend baccalaureate programs.
C) There was a movement toward hospital-based nursing schools.
D) The National League for Nursing was created in response to this report.

Question 5

How might a critic of Florence Nightingale's nursing image describe a nurse?

A) As powerless
B) As uncaring
C) As a change agent
D) As uneducated

Question 6

What does belonging to a professional nursing association do for the nurse?

A) It costs money and time.
B) It allows nurses to be nationally/locally active and improve leadership skills.
C) It gives lobbyists more money to use in Washington, DC.
D) It helps nurses get jobs.

Question 7

The standards of practice for the American Nurses Association include which of the following?

A) Assessment
B) Crisis management
C) Data recording
D) Rounding practices

Question 8

Describe how Florence Nightingale influenced the nursing profession in the 1850s.

Question 9

Describe the recommendations of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing in response to the health profession's level of diversity in 2004. Think about the diversity of the healthcare workforce today. Has anything changed? If so, has it improved or gotten worse? Use your own experiences in your description.

Question 10

Describe how the definition of nursing has changed over time. What do you think has allowed these definitions to change?