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Week one
Key Terms
20
Nursing
Undergraduate 1
06/19/2013

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Term

Mary

Mahoney

Definition
first african american professional nurse
Term

Lillian 

Wald

Definition
founder of public health nursing
Term

Margaret 

Sanger

Definition
founder of planned parenthood
Term

Melinda Ann

(Ann)

Richards

 

Definition
Americas first trained nurse
Term

Demographic 

Patterns

Definition
demographic changes require recognition of cultural and ethnic diversity
Term

Prospective 

Payment

Definition
limits hospital reimbursements, pays a predetermined amount related to a medical diagnosis
Term

Diagnositc Related 

Groups

Definition
prospective payment system established according to a medical diagnosis
Term

Supplemental Security 

Income

 

Definition
financial assistance for persons with disabilities
Term
Medicare
Definition
title 18 of social security act providing health insurance for the older adults
Term
Medicaid
Definition
title 19 of the social security act provides medical assistance to people in financial need
Term
Insurance Plans
Definition
third party payers to finance health care, may be private or group insurance
Term

Virgina 

Henderson

Definition
one of the first modern nurses to define nursing
Term

Lavinia

Dock

Definition

writer, feminist, suffragette, political activist

 

Term

Mary 

Breckinridge

Definition
pioneer nurse, founder of frontier nursing service
Term

Sojourner

Truth

Definition
abolitionist, underground railroad agent, preacher, womens right advocate, nurse
Term

Harriet 

Tubman

Definition

"the moses of her people"

nurse the sick and the suffering 

Term

Dorothea

Dix

Definition
union superintendent of female nurses during civil war
Term

Clara 

Barton

Definition
founder of the American Red Cross
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Florence 

Nightingale

Definition
founder of modern nursing
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Order of 

Deaconesses

Definition
religous group of nursing providers instituted by Theodore Fliedner
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