Chap 1 Flashcards

Question

Sairey Gamp

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- a private duty home care nurse - prototype of nurses of the era - alcoholic

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- established Sisters of Charity

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- founded the Sisters of Mercy - cared for the wounded during the American Civil War - established hospitals and homes for unwed mothers and provided care for orphans

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- when English colonies fought for the British for independence - Washington ordered that women be employed to perform single nursing duties for the wounded soldiers - wives followed their husbands to the battlefield and provided them with nursing care

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- Florence Nightingale - nursing leader associated and is also considered the founder of modern professional nursing - england and france were helping to protect turkey from russian invasion on the crimean peninsula in the black sea

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- believed she was called to was caring for the sick - superintendent of the establishment for Gentlewomen During Illness, facility in london that was a shelter for homeless women and provided nursing care for governess who are ill - address issues of sanitation and nutrition in addition to wound care - devoted to writing about nursing and to focusing on the larger scope of public health issues.

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- established a school and hospital of instruction called the KAISERSWERTH DEACONESS INSTITUTE with a 3-year course of study for protestant deaconess

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- british secretary of war | - asked Nightingale for help to be the superintendent of nurses who would serve the war effort in turkey

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- st thomas's hospital in london, england | - an independent secular school of nursing that was unaffiliated with any religious body

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- acute need for nurses and a more formal and organized health care delivery system - various women engaged in some type of nursing duty in a variey fo makeshift hospitals that included churches, schools, and tents.

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- worked on the first hospital ship | - first navy nurses

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- formalization was led by Geneva Convention Treaty - 19th century movement - vision by Jean Henri Dunant of Switzerland - 7 universal ideals associated: humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity and universality

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- moved by the suffering and lack of medical care at a battlefield site in Italy - engaged in a mission that used volunteer help in every country to aid in war relief efforts

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- signed by representatives of 12 nations | - military hospitals were to be considered safe havens

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- founding of the American Association of the Red Cross - teacher by profession - organized a relief program for the 6th Massachusetts Regiment during Civil War - supervised the shipment of medical supplies for the Union Soldiers - advertised for donations - no formal nursing education - became the Superintendent of nurses of The Army of the James - established an information center that helped people locate missing soldiers - successfully lobbied for inclusion of the United States in the Red Cross - first American President of the Red Cross - funded by private citizens rather than the government

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- responsible for major reform in the prison and treatment of the mentally ill - a teacher; owns a school in Ma and took special interest in education for poor children - impressed the need for medical diagnosis prior to hospitalization - served in the Civil War as volunteer nurse - Superintendent of the female nurses of the Union Army - organized the first US Army Nurse Corps - insisted that nurse volunteers be at least 35 yo, be very plain-looking women, dress in brown or black, wear no bows, curls, jewelry or hoop skirts. Wages were food and 40c a day.

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- african american, birth name Isabella Baumfree; born a slave - best known for her role as an abolitionist during Civil War, her role in the women's suffrage movement, and her care for Union soldiers - appointed as a counselor by the National Freedman's Relief Association in 1864 - worked in the Freedman's Village in Arlington Heights, Va where she counseled women after the war - duties included nursing african american soldiers and training other women who functioned in nursing roles by performing duties such as wound care and bed making

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- black abolitionist - best known for her work in the Undergound Railroad Movement - gain freedom to over 300 slaves - matron at the Colored Hospital in Va

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- america's first trained nurse - first of the five students enrolled in nursing program - superintendent of the Boston Training School - served as a missionary in Japan

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the first school of nursing in America that was based on the principles of Kaiserswerth

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- graduate of the New York Hospital Training School for Nurses - the first president of the National Organization for Public Health Nursing - influences in securing low-cost housing for people - instituting school lunch programs in NY public school system - advocated for nurses in public schools

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- established the first public health by Lilian Wald, Mary Brewster and a colleague in their own home on the upper floor of a tenement located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in NYC

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- used to be called Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service - staffed by both nurses and social workers - the present-day Visiting Nurse Service

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- focused on the need for preventive health measures like improved sanitation and attention to personal hygiene - responsible for developing standards for public health nursing and setting up public health courses for nurses in baccalaureate schools in nursing

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- a nurse | - the first public school nurse in NYC

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- founded the Frontier Nursing Service, a private charitable organization in the rural of Appalachian Mountain region of eastern Kentucky - riding in horseback to visit patients in their homes - certified as a Nurse Midwife - observed the system of decentralized health care that would become the model for the FNS

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- worked with poor women in Lower East Side of NY - dedicate herself to the distribution of birth control information - founder of the Planned Parenthood Federation - established the first birth control clinic - helped organize the first World Population Conference in Geneva

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forbade both the dissemination of birth control information and the distribution of birth control devices

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- greatly influenced the current movement of Independent Nursing Practice that now includes the expanded role of the nurse as clinical specialist and as nurse practitioner - prominent nurse suffragette

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- first black nurse to graduate from a school of nursing in the US - influential in the establishment of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN) - first women in Boston to register to vote after the ratification of the 19th Amendment - NACGN is no longer in active organization

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- founded to respond to inequities in health care for African Americans - to promote the active and collective involvement of black nurses in advocating for health care needs - help improve the quality of life for African American as well as for other racial and ethnic groups

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- influential leader in the field of nursing education - superintendent of nursing at the Illinois Training School for Nurses at Cook County Hospital in Chicago - established the first grading policy in a nursing school - while at John Hopkins, she extended the nursing program from 2 to 3 years and shortened work hours for nurses. - member of American Journal of Nursing - founder of the International Council of Nurses - President of the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses (now the National League for Nursing) - President of the Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada (now the American Nurses Association)

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- RN and a founder of the American Assembly for Men in Nursing (AAMN) - trained at the Pennsylvania Hospital School of Nursing for men - served as a nurse in the US Maritime Service in World War II - turned down as an emergency nurse on the front lines - first male to hold position of dean in an American Nursing school in Vanderbuilt University in Nashville, Tennessee - known for the original Unification Model - founder of National Student Nurses Association

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- purpose is to provide a forum for nurses to discuss and influence factors that affect men as nurses - objectives include encouraging men of all ages to become nurses, supporting men in nursing to develop professionally, and advocating research, education, and the dissemination of information about men's health issues at local and national levels

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- stresses the need for clinically prepared faculty and for clinical competence among students pursuing advanced degrees - a focus on research for students in master's and doctoral programs

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- introduced by Luther Christman | - stresses a faculty focused around expert clinical nurses, physician-nurse teams, quality assurance and research

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- began when archduke of Austria and his wife were assassinated in Serbia - European nations declared war - acute demand for nurses - Red Cross sent over 20,000 nurses to Europe and Asia - Army School of Nursing is established Annie Goodrich - became the dean of this nursing school; advocated for university-prepared practicing nurses, nurse educators, and nurse administrators - both public and politicians realized the valuable contributions that nurses made to the war effort

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- US entered WWII after an attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan - war begun when Germany invaded Austria and Poland, and Great Britain and France declared war on Germany - declared an acute nursing shortage on the US home front - flight nursing developed, serves as members of the Army Nurse Corps and tended the wounded on cargo planes that served as air ambulances - many hospitals forced to close due to staffing shortage - US Cadet Nurse Corps established due to nursing shortage; an official part of the Army - standards in education were improved due to federal requirements for funding - black students were heavily recruited and then served in the navy and army - nurses received monetary compensation equal to that of a fully commissioned officer - growth in nursing popularity, major advances in nursing as a profession occured

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- the nurse training act of 1943 - influenced by a philantrophist, Ohio congresswoman and healthcare reformer Frances Payne Bolton - nursing shools received federal funds for undergraduate baccalaureate education through government scholarships - WWII - barred institutions from discriminating on the basis of race or creed

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- WWII - funds were provided for nurses to pursue advanced preparation for administrative, supervisory, and teaching positions - practical and vocational nurse programs were expanded

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- north korea invaded south korea - acute nursing shortage - many nurses left active practice to marry and to raise children and never returned to active nursing workforce for reasons including low salaries and inflexible scheduling - Army nurses were the first american to be dispatched with the armed forces to combat zones - established Air Force Nurse Corps to assist in the air evacuation of battle casualties - Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH) movable hospitals on the front lines

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- north and south vietnam at war with southeast asia - difficulty in recruiting nurses because war was very unpopular - helicopters used extensively - technology has advanced - emergency procedures that required triage nursing - higher level of nursing skill - nurses set up clinics to treat children who suffered from many diseases endemic to tropical climates - nurses delivered babies and taught hygiene and simple first aid to adults

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- vietnam war | - made funding available for nursing programs that were either accredited by the National League for Nursing

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- 1991 - 42 day limited war that the US enters after Iraq invaded Kuwait - some veterans has experienced a mysterious complex of symptoms known as the Gulf War syndrome - exposure to chemical weapons

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- nursing books were sent to the Baghdad University College of Nursing - nurses work in small tent hospitals that include med-surg ward, ICU, OR

Chap 1 Flashcards

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