Chapter 1

Question 1

4000 years ago, the Ebers Papyrus listed:

Answer 1

remedies for ailments

Question 2

Egyptian culture considered healing as the successful result of:

Answer 2

a contest between invisible beings of good & evil

Question 3

This group of people believed that life could be prolonged _______

Answer 3

Indefinitely

Question 4

The jewish contribution to public health is greatest in:

Answer 4

sanitation

Question 5

The Hebrew’s notion of disease was rooted in disease as

Answer 5

God’s punishment for sin

Question 6

Name which the word hygiene is derived from; goddess of preventive health

Answer 6

Hygeia

Question 7

All healing “universal remedy”

Answer 7

Panacea

Question 8

Father of Medicine

Answer 8

Hippocrates

Question 9

This philosopher’s contribution to public health was the recognition that making accurate observations of & drawing general conclusions from actual phenomena formed the basis of sound medical reasoning

Answer 9

Hippocrates

Question 10

In greek society, health was considered to result from:

Answer 10

balance between mind & body

Question 11

Empedodes of Acragas asserted 4 main humors of the body, which were:

Answer 11

blood, bile, phlegm, black bile

Question 12

In sickness in which no wound occurred, an _____ was considered the cause

Answer 12

evil spirit

Question 13

Galen of Pergamum’s contribution to medicine is he helped it evolve into a ____

Answer 13

science

Question 14

____ first developed mobile war nursing units

Answer 14

Romans

Question 15

The ____ surpassed the Greeks in the evolution of nursing

Answer 15

romans

Question 16

iatreia is an early form of:

Answer 16

hospital

Question 17

The word hospital is derived from the Latin word __ meaning service of guests

Answer 17

hopitalis

Question 18

Bubonic plague was caused by:

Answer 18

flea bites carrying bacillus

Question 19

the name bubonic plague came from

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swollen lymph nodes called bubos

Question 20

developed a vaccination for smallpox

Answer 20

edward jenner

Question 21

discovered pasteurization as a method to preserve milk & food

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louis pasteur

Question 22

developed a chemical antiseptic solution of carbolic acid for use in surgery

Answer 22

joseph lister

Question 23

conducted research on anthrax, regarded as the father of microbiology

Answer 23

robert koch

Question 24

identified the organism that caused cholera

Answer 24

Robert koch

Question 25

proved the germ theory

Answer 25

edwin klebs

Question 26

founded the sisters of charity in france (order of nuns who visited the sick in their homes)

Answer 26

Saint Vincent de Paul

Question 27

During the 1600s & 1700s hospitals were called:

Answer 27

pesthouses

Question 28

the dark period of nursing lasted from

Answer 28

1500-1860

Question 29

A report that found that more than half of the children of labor-class workers died by age 5

Answer 29

Chadwick Report

Question 30

Report that called for services that benefited public health

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Shattuck Report

Question 31

First epidemiologist

Answer 31

John Snow

Question 32

Demonstrated that chloera rates were linked with water pump used in London

Answer 32

John Snow

Question 33

identified as the angel of mercy

Answer 33

Florence Nightingale

Question 34

The name of florence nightingale's work that stands as a classic feminist treatise against the idleness of victorian women

Answer 34

cassandra

Question 35

Volunteered with Nightingale's nurses because she couldn't be hired. Significant in rectifying miniorities in nursing

Answer 35

Mary Grant Seacole

Question 36

established the first district visiting nurse service

Answer 36

William Rathbone

Question 37

Believed the future of health care would be in preventative medicine & take place in the home & community

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Nightingale

Question 38

Report that advocated the establishment of university schools of nursing

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Goldmark Report

Question 39

Report that became the catalyst for the implementation of accreditation of nursing schools

Answer 39

Brown Report

Question 40

founded the ANA

Answer 40

Isabel Robb

Question 41

devoted her life to teaching women about birth control

Answer 41

Margaret Sanger

Question 42

Research associate at Yale school of nursing, public speaker, nurse must “get inside the skin of each patient to know what they need.”14 basic needs, Florence Nightingale of the 20th century

Answer 42

Virginia henderson

Question 43

CRNA, first male officer of the Army Nurse Corps,

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Edward T. Lyon

Question 44

world’s first registered nurse,

Answer 44

Ellen Dougherty

Question 45

compassion, poet, nurse

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Walt Whitman

Question 46

sanitation, nurse in WWI

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Helen Fairchild

Question 47

public health nursing, hired African American nurses

Answer 47

Lillian Wald

Question 48

Founder of the Red Cross

Answer 48

Clara Barton

Question 49

Founder of midwives

Answer 49

Mary Breckenridge