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Nursing Heritage
History of Nursing
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Nursing
Undergraduate 1
09/19/2010

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Factors That Have Influenced Nursing Practice (5)
Definition
1. role of women
2. wars
3. religion
4. societal attitudes
5. societal events
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3 Ways Religion Has Affected Nursing
Definition
-christian values "love they neighbor"
-crusades (men took care of men)
-deaconess groups (women bought houses and took people in; started nursing school in germany in 1836)
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How did the Crimean War affect nursing? Years?
Definition
1851-1856
British soldiers were receiving poor care and Florence Nightengale brought cleanliness to nursing practice to heal troops
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How did the American Civil War affect nursing?
Definition
-Men would rather die than go to hospital
-S did not think women should be on battlefield
-segregation of care
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How did WWI affect nursing?
Definition
-many nurses were needed
-rapid increase of prosthetics and anesthetics
-1917 Smith Hues Act provided $ for schools of nursing
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How did WWII affect nursing?
Definition
-nurses had officer rank and pay
-black women now integrated into armed forces
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How did the Korean War affect nursing?
Definition
-negative connotations (MASH t.v. show)
-"forgotten war"
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How did the Vietnam War affect nursing?
Definition
-many women were on the battlefield
-not welcomed back
-emotionally scarred
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How did the Persian Gulf, Iraq and Afghanistan wars affect nursing?
Definition
-many advances in trauma care
-welcomed upon return
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What are the 6 different societal attitudes that affected nursing?
Definition
1. victorian middle class woman's role (subsevient, mother, uneducated)
2. Charles Dickens ("Sairy Gamp")
3. Guardian Angel (Florence Nightengale)
4. Doctor's Handmaiden (early 1900's)
5. Heroine (wars and polio epidemic)
6. Sex object (tv shows, books)
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What year and where were the first hospital schools of nursing opened in the U.S?
Definition
1873- New York City, Boston, and New Haven
Term
What act standardized nursing education requirements for the LPN and in what year?
Definition
National League for Nursing Act of 1917
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What state and in what year did the first LPN's get certified?
Definition
1914 in Mississippi
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What year did all states require licensure for LPN's? RN's?
Definition
1955, 1930's
Term
After what major war did LPN's move into the hospital?
Definition
WWII
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What time periods in the 20th century were there major nursing shortages?
Definition
1. after WWI when nurses left the profession
2. after WWII
3. mid 1980's
Term
When was the first comprehensive study describing tasks of the LPN?
Definition
1944- US Dept of Vocational Education Study
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What did the ANA movement propose in 1965 as well as the AMA proposal of 1989 that never went through?
Definition
the role of a technical nurse
Term
What is a UAP and when were they approved?
Definition
Unlicensed Assisted Personnel
-1990's
Term
What 4 factors influenced nursing in the 1990's?
Definition
1. growing concern over ntn's health
2. AIDS epidemic
3. exposure to hazardous materials
4. managed care movement
Term
What are 2 current issues in health care?
Definition
-health care reform and insurance
-safety issues in hospitals (injuries/illness resulting from hospital stay is not reimbursed)
Term
Florence Nightengale revolutionized nursing by educating in both ___ and ___.
Definition
theory and nursing skills
Term
What was Dorthea Dix's title and what did she advocate for?
Definition
superintendent of nursing and mental health hospitals
Term
What organization did Clara Barton have a hand in creating for the U.S.?
Definition
The American Red Cross
Term
What role did Lilian Wald play in the development of nursing?
Definition
-founded the Henry St. Settlement and visiting nurses services (i.e. public health)
Term
What 2 foundations did Lavinia Dock help create?
Definition
NLN- national league for nursing
ANA- American Nurses Association
Term
Who was Mary Breckinridge?
Definition
-founded Frontier Nursing Services in Kentucky (first midwifery school)
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Who wrote the first substantial nursing text and believed that nurses, not MD's, should educate students?
Definition
Isabelle Hampton Robb
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Who opened the first birth control clinic and was the founder of Planned Parenthood?
Definition
Margaret Sanger
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What did Mildred Montag do for nursing?
Definition
started the associate degree movement in junior colleges
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