Deck 1: The History of Community Health Nursing in Canada

Question 1

Which community health nursing specialty emerged in early 20th-century Canada to combat communicable disease,infant mortality,and childhood morbidity?

A) Visiting nursing
B) District nursing
C) Private-duty nursing
D) Public health nursing

Answer 1

Public health nursing

Question 2

In 1910 the social gospel movement believed in maternal feminism.What was the focus of their attention?

A) Improving the quality of life for the middle class
B) Alleviating the suffering of women and children
C) The health of women returning from the world wars
D) Establishing communicable disease clinics

Answer 2

Alleviating the suffering of women and children

Question 3

What caused infant morality rates to decline after the 1920s?

A) Removing children from parents who were neglectful
B) Improved urban sanitation
C) Efforts of elite and middle-class women
D) Regulation of food and milk supplies

Answer 3

Efforts of elite and middle-class women

Question 4

The dual mandate of doing charitable work and providing affordable nursing care was held by which agency?

A) The Victorian Order of Nurses (VON)
B) The Margaret Scott Nursing Mission
C) Indian Health Services
D) Public health services

Question 5

Analyze how people viewed health,the individual,and the state in Canada in the early 20th century.

Question 6

What was the primary reason for the establishment of early school health programs?

A) Prevent sick children from becoming dependent citizens in the future
B) Promote the health of all children
C) Provide food for children who lived in poverty
D) Treat sick children so they could work in factories

Question 7

Jennifer was a public health nurse in the 1930s in Northern Ontario.What action would she have taken if she found a child with head lice in school?

A) Do health promotion teaching to prevent head lice
B) Refer the child to the local physician
C) Send the child home
D) Describe to the mother how to treat the head lice

Question 8

What was the major reason for the change in funding for tuberculosis nurses in early 20th-century Winnipeg?

A) Allow nurses more autonomy and freedom
B) Establish comprehensive health promotion programs
C) Provide nurses with more regulatory power
D) Control nurses' educational preparation

Question 9

With the emergence of the Canadian welfare state,whom did the community health nurse work for?

A) Provincial government
B) District nursing organization
C) Local community
D) Federal government

Question 10

Discuss three negative outcomes of a school nurse in the 1940s focusing her efforts on new immigrant families in a school home visiting program.

Question 11

What exemplifies the decision to specialize in families rather than diseases?

A) Movement by public health nurses to generalist practice
B) Specialization of public health nurses
C) Establishment of tuberculosis nurses
D) Development of school nurses

Question 12

A visiting nurse assessed the proportion that a family could pay for their nursing care.Why was this done?

A) To provide families with charity
B) As an innovative government funding practice
C) To make families dependent on the state
D) To prevent families from becoming paupers

Question 13

In the early 20th century,health departments were dissolved after a local emergency was over.Which statement below characterizes the social attitude of the era?

A) Public health was the responsibility of doctors.
B) Visiting nurses were responsible for community health.
C) The state is not responsible for health care.
D) Women should not be working outside the family.

Question 14

Maternal feminists were instrumental in developing which social program in early 20th-century Canada?

A) Employment insurance
B) Public health movement
C) Canada Pension Plan
D) Child welfare movement

Question 15

Describe the role of women's farm groups in the establishment of rural community health nursing services.

Question 16

Who would a visiting nurse most likely work with in the early 1900s in Canada?

A) Families who could afford to pay
B) Poor and destitute families
C) The community
D) School children

Question 17

Contrast the three sectors of nursing that existed in Canada in the 20th century.

Question 18

In the interwar years,which had the most negative impact on the development of public health nursing services?

A) Lack of transportation
B) Support from family physicians
C) Tensions between local and provincial funding
D) An oversupply of nurses

Question 19

Define the social gospel movement and discuss two reasons why it was important to the improvement of women's and children's health in early 20th-century Canada.

Question 20

Why were rural public health services unorganized prior to 1920?

A) Rural centres were seen as healthy areas of the country.
B) The federal government allocated financial support to the urban areas.
C) There was an oversupply of nurses who preferred to work in urban centres.
D) Post-diploma programs in public health focused on care in urban centres.

Question 21

Helen Spackman worked as an Indian Health Service (IHS)nurse in an isolated community in Canada's north in the 1950s.What would have been true about her practice?

A) She worked in a limited role.
B) She participated in maintaining the native culture.
C) Teaching hygiene and child care would have the greatest impact on the community.
D) She had greater autonomy.

Question 22

What is a non-traditional program that public health nurses have become involved with?

A) Providing home care services
B) Immunization programs
C) Communicable disease control
D) Early discharge programs

Question 23

What event resulted in home care programs being established in Canada in the 1970s?

A) Decreasing hospital costs
B) Demand from public health nurses
C) Earlier hospital discharge times
D) Shortage of acute care nurses

Question 24

What type of health care would a new immigrant family living in poverty receive in the early 1900s?

A) Partially subsidized,regionally funded health care services
B) Free,provincially funded health care services
C) Hospital services
D) Charitable health care services

Question 25

What factor contributed to a resurgence of tuberculosis in the latter part of the 20th century?

A) Increased monitoring,identification,and follow-up on communicable diseases
B) Canadian immigration patterns
C) Reduction in government spending
D) The belief that tuberculosis was cured

Question 26

Changes in health care created tremendous growth in which type of community health nurse in the past 40 years?

A) Home care nurses
B) Occupational health nurses
C) District nurses
D) Public health nurses

Question 27

Why did government officials in the early 20th century perceive nurses as the ideal professionals to deliver public health programs?

A) They were able to work with physicians in the patients' homes
B) They were familiar with working in acute care hospitals
C) Nurses had medical knowledge and were able to interact with women and children
D) They were seen as non-threatening

Question 28

What was the focus of the first group of Canadian public health officials in the late 19th century?

A) Waste disposal and a safe water supply
B) Health education and disease prevention
C) The health of mothers and children
D) Social welfare programs

Question 29

Women who became public health nurses in the early 20th century in Canada were most likely from which group?

A) Middle class and British born
B) Elite,wealthy family
C) Working class and American
D) Agricultural,immigrant family

Question 30

Which report recommended in the 1970s that the Victorian Order of Nurses be given the mandate to deliver nationally funded home care programs?

A) Romanow Report
B) Heagerty Report
C) Pickering Report
D) Lalonde Report