Contemporary Nursing Chapter 1 Review

Question 1

Which choice describes Universal Precautions taken during the 1990&#x27;s because of the AIDS outbreak?

Accepted Answer

considering all contact with blood and bodily fluids potentially infectious

Question 2

Why did home health agencies grow from the 1960&#x27;s into the 1990&#x27;s

Accepted Answer

Old growing population rise; tecnology advancements

Question 3

With the expansion of nursing roles and complexity of health care rapidly increasing, nursing enrollment ...?

Accepted Answer

Decreased in the late 80&#x27;s

Question 4

What are some of the challenges the 21st century nurse faces?

Accepted Answer

aging population, serious nursing shortage, generational gaps in work force

Question 5

Jen&#x27;s Grandpa is applying for insurance. He&#x27;s 68 years old. What type of insurance might he try for? Why might he apply?

Accepted Answer

Medicare; He&#x27;s 65 years or older and eligible for social security benefits

Question 6

Where might you go if you wanted to find the first hospital in North America? The first medical school in North America?

Accepted Answer

Mexico; Mexico

Question 7

What early civilazation does the quote "Staffed by male nurses with duties alike to those of the 20thcentury" belong to?

Accepted Answer

India

Question 8

Which early nursing leader held practices dealing with occupational health nursing?

Accepted Answer

Lilian Wald

Question 9

In the middle ages, women did more for the advancement of nursing than men is an opinion. What evidence supports this?

Accepted Answer

Noble women usually became nurses by caring for the sick and providing food

Question 10

Managed care provided more preventive and ___ care by using ___ and home settings, and limiting hospitalizations.

Accepted Answer

primary; outpatient

Question 11

Black nurses began to bypass the states and join the ANA directly after __. This became known as ___ and started in ___.

Accepted Answer

a white nurse commented "our darkies". ; individual membership; 1948

Question 12

During the 1970s America Era, Bachelor&#x27;s-level preparation was developed as the requirement for graduation and practice.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 13

Patients with Medicare payments were put into a system called ... This system caused hospitals to create what specialty?

Accepted Answer

DRG; created the Case Manager specialty

Question 14

U.S. spent around 1 billion on health care, twice as much as any industrialized nation during the 90&#x27;s.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 15

How many U.S. trained Nurses served in World War I?

Accepted Answer

20,000

Question 16

Homelessness was not that much of a problem in the 80&#x27;s due to the amount of home health agencies being created.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 17

Medicaid, also known as Title XIX of the Social Security Act, served as medical insurance for who?

Accepted Answer

Primarily Women and children below the federal poverty line

Question 18

Amy wants to donate money to the American Red Cross. After researching it she has most likely learned ...

Accepted Answer

Clara Barton established the Amerian Red Cross

Question 19

The Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963 gave funds to build private outpatient mental health centers.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 20

In which time period(s) were herbs utilized as medicine?

Accepted Answer

Prehistoric Period and the Middle Ages

Question 21

What detail about ancient Egpyt is true?

Accepted Answer

1st to be recorded as developing community planning that dropped disease, First to use the concept of suture.

Question 22

Medicare has two parts, is available to permanent disabilities and end-stage renal disease, and is Title XVIII.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 23

Ben&#x27;s mother took up nursing in the 60&#x27;s. She had to take a certification exam in order to practice nursing. Which exam?

Accepted Answer

State Board Test Pool Examination

Question 24

Florence Nightingale: Which details about her life are incorrect?

Accepted Answer

She led a group of nurses during the Civil war

Question 25

Who was the first elected black president of the ANA? During what time frame? How long did they serve?

Accepted Answer

Barbara Nichols; 1970&#x27;s; served for two terms

Question 26

J says his grandma worked in MASH units during a war. Lily doesn&#x27;t know what those are. Which choice best explains this.

Accepted Answer

MASH units are mobile army surgical hospitals used during the Korean war

Question 27

Where was the first military hospital built?

Accepted Answer

Rome

Question 28

If you take a who am I quiz and get Hippocrates, you would believe what about health?

Accepted Answer

Health was determined by natural causes along with diseases

Question 29

Pick the answer choice that best highlights nursing in the 70&#x27;s.

Accepted Answer

Focus on better economic benefits for nurses. Health care $ soared.

Question 30

Nurses such as Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and Susie King Taylor helped during this period of time.

Accepted Answer

The Civil War Period

Question 31

During the Great Depression the hospital setting became the usual employment setting for graduate nurses.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 32

What was the first instance of federal funding being used to support nursing training?

Accepted Answer

Nurse Training Act of 1943

Question 33

She purchased her own supplies, traveled 3000 miles to the Crimean War, and nursed soilders in a lodge house she built.

Accepted Answer

Mary Seacole

Question 34

Nurse anesthetists made their first appearance during World War I as part of surgical teams.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 35

Programs that aided orphans and the poor were eliminated by ____ and reinstated by nursing groups such as ____

Accepted Answer

King Henry VII during the Reformation period; Sisters of Charity

Question 36

Li has to write about an increase in demand for professional nurses in the 20th century. Which choice conveys this idea?

Accepted Answer

The passage of the Hill-Burton Act that provided funding for hospitals

Question 37

The Atlanta Baptist Seminary was the first school of nursing for black women and was funded by...

Accepted Answer

John D. Rockefeller

Question 38

This Act was passed by Congress in 2010. It provided insurance coverage to 32 million uninsured Americans.

Accepted Answer

Affordable Care Act

Question 39

Mi reads a book that talks about health promotion and disease prevention and is revised every 10 years. She read...

Accepted Answer

Healthy People

Question 40

Treatments consisting of acupuncture, hydrotherapy, and massage would go along with what belief from the same group?

Accepted Answer

yin and yang

Question 41

Julie O. Flikke was the first army nurse to be promoted to colonel and served as Superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 42

Mary Breckenridge established the ___ in ___ located at ___. She took care of around ___ patients in a rural area.

Accepted Answer

FNS; a 5 room cabin; Hyden, Kentucky; 10,000

Contemporary Nursing Chapter 1 Review

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Contemporary Nursing Chapter 1 Review

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