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History if NRS
test 1
Question | Answer |
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Approx. 500BC | thinking broadened to ask more questions about why people got sick...mostly religious based |
Hippocrates | "father of Medicine"- first to deny or question that evil spirits cause illness |
Florence Nightingale | entered nursing school at age of 31, implemented much needed sanitation in war hospitals in Crimean War. "lady with the Lamp" |
Year 1st hospital in US is established and location | "Pittsburgh Infermary" Pittsburgh, PA, 1849 |
1st school for practical nurses name and year of est. | 1892- The Ballard School in Brooklyn, NY |
Common goals of nursing | Promote wellness, prevent illness, restore health, caring for the dying |
Dorthea Dix | reform of prisons and mental asylums |
Clara Barton | Founder of the American Red Cross, "Angel of the Battlefield" |
Mary Ann Ball | Chief of Nursing Union Army, worked with salvation army after war for veterans |
Linda Richards | "America's First Nurse", Developed system for charting, 1st Japanese nursing school |
Isabel Hampton Robb | 1st President of Nurse's Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada |
Lavinia Dock | Compiles Material Medical for Nurses, advocate for women's rights and better work conditions |
Mary Elisa Mahoney | 1st African American RN in US, Co-founder of Nat. Association of Colored Graduate Nurses |
Lillian D Wald | organized 18 district nursing centers in NY that treated 4500 pat. |
Mary Adelaide Nutting | World's 1st Professor of Nursing, served 13yrs as principal of John Hopkins Training School for Nurses |
Mary Breckinridge | Ky nurse who began FNS, Frontier Nursing Service, goal to decrease maternal death rate |
Margaret Sanger | Advocate of Birth Control, 1st bc clinic |
Walt Whitman | worked as a wartime nurse during the Civil War, wrote about his experiences in war hospitals |
Mary Seacole | Crimean War nurse, the other F. Nightingale, rewarded by Queen Victoria |
Virginia Henderson | 1st full-time nursing instructor at Norfolk Protestant School of Nursing |