Chapter 1: The Nursing Profession; History of Nursing

Question 1

Florence Nightingale

Answer 1

• 1st nursing philosophy based on health maintenance and restoration
• Nursing Role is seen of having charge of someone’s health
• This role is based on the knowledge of how to put the body in such a state to be free of disease or to recover from disease
• Lady with the lamp
• Mortality rate from 42.7% to 2.2% in 6 months

Question 2

Civil War to Beginning of the Twentieth Century

Answer 2

• 1860-1865
• Many nurses influenced Nursing
• -Clara Barton
• -Dorothea Lynde Dix
• -Mary Ann Ball
• -Harriet Tubman
• -Mary Mahoney
• -Isabel Hampton Robb

Question 3

Clara Barton

Answer 3

• Founder of American Red Cross
• Cared for soldiers on the battle fields, cleansing their wounds, meeting their basic needs, and comforting them until death

Question 4

Dorothea Lynde Dix

Answer 4

Organized hospitals, appointed nurses and oversaw and regulated supplies to the troops

Question 5

Mary Ann Ball

Answer 5

(Mother Bickerdyke)

Organized ambulance services and walked abandoned battlefields at night, looking for wounded soldiers

Question 6

Harriet Tubman

Answer 6

Active in underground railroad movement and assisted in leading over 300 slaves to freedom

Question 7

Mary Mahoney

Answer 7

First professionally educated African American nurse
Concerned with relationships between cultures and races
Made an awareness of cultural diversity and respect for the individual, regardless of background, race, color, or religion

Question 8

Isabel Hampton Robb

Answer 8

Helped found the Nurses’ Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada in 1896; became ANA in 1911
Authored many nursing textbooks

Question 9

20th Century

Answer 9

Scientific and evidence-based defined body of nursing knowledge and practice
–Mary Adelaide Nutting

Question 10

Mary Adelaide Nutting

Answer 10

A big player in nursing education in universities

First professor of nursing at Columbia University Teachers College in 1906