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Table of Contents
Unit 1: The Development of Nursing
1.The Evolution of Professional Nursing
- The Contemporary Image of Professional Nursing
- The Influence of Contemporary Trends and Issues on Nursing Education
- Nursing Licensure and Certification
- Theories of Nursing Practice
Unit 2: Current Issues in Health Care
- Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice
7. Paying for Health Care in America: Rising Costs and Challenges
- Legal Issues in Nursing and Health Care
- Ethical and Bioethical Issues in Nursing and Health Care
- Cultural Competency and Social Issues in Nursing and Health Care
- Complementary and Alternative Healing
- Palliative Care
- Workforce Advocacy and the Nursing Shortage
- Collective Bargaining and Unions in Today's Workplace
- Information Technology in the Clinical Setting
- Emergency Preparedness and Response for Today's World
Unit 3: Leadership and Management in Nursing
- Nursing Leadership and Management
- Budgeting Basics for Nurses
- Effective Communication and Conflict Resolution
- Effective Delegation and Supervision
- Staffing and Nursing Care Delivery Models
- Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
23. Health Policy and Politics: Get Involved!
- Clinical Judgment
Unit 4: Career Management
- Making the Transition from Student to Professional Nurse
26. Managing Time: The Path to High Self-Performance
27. Job Search: Finding Your Match
- NCLEX-RN ® Examination
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Chapter 01: The Evolution of Professional Nursing
Cherry: Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, and Management, 9th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
- What accomplishment is Clara Barton best known for?
- Becoming the first black public health nurse
- Establishing the Henry Street Settlement
- Founding the American Red Cross
- Publicizing the inadequacies of hospital-based nursing schools
ANS: C
The American Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton in 1882, to be of assistance in efforts to provide supplies to the battlefields and hospitals. Barton also sets up a postwar service to find missing soldiers.
DIF:Knowledge
- Students are assigned to write to their state leaders about an issue affecting their community.
- Social Security Act
- Hill-Burton Act
- Sheppard-Towner Act
- U.S. Civil Service Act
One student writes about the need among rural community for greater access to acute care services. Which piece of legislation should the student use as a reference?
ANS: B
The purpose of the Hill-Burton Act was to provide funding to construct hospitals and to help states in plan for other health care facilities in accordance with the needs of communities.
DIF:Knowledge
- The practice of public health nursing and the Henry Street Settlement are credited to
- Mary Breckenridge.
- Mary Seacole.
- Clara Barton.
- Lillian Wald.
ANS: D
Lillian Wald, a pioneer in public health nursing, is best known for the development and establishment of the Henry Street Settlement.
DIF:Knowledge
- Occupational health nursing features beliefs similar to those of which early nursing pioneer?
- Lillian Wald
- Florence Nightingale
- Clara Barton
- Mary Seacole
ANS: A 3 / 4
Lillian Wald was a pioneer in public health nursing, and is best known for the development and establishment of the first viable practice for public health nurses.
DIF:Comprehension
- What historical event first led to the recognition of the contribution of blacks to nursing?
- Florence Nightingale‘s acceptance of black nurses into the first nursing school
- The contributions of black nurses at the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in
- Mary Williams and Frances Rose are listed as nurses in the City of Baltimore
- The work done by wives of wealthy black nobles who carried food and medicine
America
Directory
from house to house during the Middle Ages
ANS: C
1840—Two black women, Mary Williams and Frances Rose, who founded Nursing Sisters of the Holy Cross, are listed as nurses in the City of Baltimore Directory.
DIF:Comprehension
- World War I contributed to the advancement of health care by
- increasing the number of private care hospitals and decreasing the role of public
- employing a large number of civilians to provide care to returning soldiers through
- introducing specialists in nursing such as nurse anesthetists.
- increasing the number of community health nurses.
health services.
the Red Cross.
ANS: C
World War I offered nurses a chance to enter new fields of specialization, as is seen in the example of nurse anesthetists, who became part of surgical teams at the front lines.
DIF:Comprehension
- What was an original purpose of the Social Security Act of 1935?
- Increase research that focused on minority groups
- Provide medical care for chemically impaired persons
- Ensure health care for older adults through a national insurance system
- Decrease the public‘s financial burden by limiting services offered by local health
departments
ANS: C
By providing health insurance for older adults, the Social Security Act of 1935 set the precedent for the passage of the Medicare and Medicaid Acts that followed in 1965, but the act also provided maternal and child welfare services, rehabilitation for the mentally and physically challenged, medical care for blind individuals and crippled children, and unemployment benefits.
DIF:Comprehension
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