Module 1

Question 1

Define Nursing

Answer 1

it is integral to the health care delivery and it is a person-centered job and its based on the patients unique needs

Question 2

Early History of nursing in Canada

Answer 2

When settlers first came to Canada, First Nations were already living there.
- They cared for them and gave the settlers medicine when they were sick.

Question 3

Was Good nursing care the only effective defense during the early history of nursing in Canada?

Answer 3

Yes

Question 4

Did the New Colony of Canada have diseases when the settlers came?

Answer 4

Yes

Question 5

Describe the Indigenous Population and what did they do for the settlers?

Answer 5

-They had healthcare knowledge
- Herbal remedies
- They were midwives, nurses and caregivers to the settlers

Question 6

New France 1606- ( Quebec)- Who were the first nurses at the time?

Answer 6

The first nurses were male attendants and Jesuit Priests

Question 7

Were there Hospitals at the time for New France?

Answer 7

No

Question 8

If you did not know where to go for help, where did you often go during New France?

Answer 8

you would go to religious organizations

Question 9

Who is Jeanne Mance?

Answer 9

she founded the first hospital in Montreal

Question 10

What did Marie Herbert ( lay nurse) do?

Answer 10

she provided care to settlers

Question 11

What did Marguerite D’Youville form and what did she create?

Answer 11

She created Sister of Charity which was the first visiting nuns and she created the Grey Nuns

Question 12

What was the grey nuns?

Answer 12

They were the first visiting nurses

Question 13

What did the Grey nuns do?

Answer 13

They spread out from Montreal towards the west, the cared for ill in their homes, and established missions in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Northwest Territories and constructed a hospital in Alberta

Question 14

Who is Florence Nightingale

Answer 14

The founder of modern nursing

Question 15

What did Florence Nightingale establish?

Answer 15

Established Nightingale school

Question 16

What are 3 things Florence Nightingale did?

Answer 16

Cared for wounded soldiers during the Crimean War, dramatically reduced mortality and morbidity rates with simple nursing care and the first nurse to be a statistician and created epidemiology

Question 17

Where was Mary Seacole born?

Answer 17

Kingston, Jamaica in 1805

Question 18

What did Mary Seacole do?

Answer 18

She cared for wounded soldiers and she established hospitals and made her own facility to care for officers

Question 19

Colonial Healthcare in Canada- what year was “Indian Hospitals” created and who created it?

Answer 19

1800s by the federal government

Question 20

Why did the Federal Government create “Indian Hospitals”

Answer 20

They offered it to create a health care service that was separate from the one available to the non-indigenous population

Question 21

Nursing Education in Canada- who created the first financially independent school of nursing?

Answer 21

Florence Nightingale

Question 22

Did Nursing Schools spread across Europe and North America

Answer 22

Ouiii

Question 23

When was the Canadian Health Act Created?

Answer 23

it was created in 1984 and nation wide 1987

Question 24

Who was the founder of Canadian Nursing?

Answer 24

Jeanne Mance

Question 25

Discuss the impact of the Canadian Health Act on health care delivery

Answer 25

to protect, promote, and restore the physical and mental well being of residents residents in Canada, and to facilitate reasonable access to health services without financial barriers.

Question 26

What the five principles of the Canadian Health Act?

Answer 26

Comprehensives, universality, protability, acessability, and public administration

Question 27

What is Public Administration?

Answer 27

it operates on non profit basis through public authority

Question 28

What is Comprehensiveness?

Answer 28

Covers medically necessary services

Question 29

What is universality?

Answer 29

Free of Discrinimation

Question 30

What is Portability?

Answer 30

Coverage access Canada for insured residents

Question 31

What is Acessability?

Answer 31

Needs access to clinics, and hospitals and reasonable access regardless of ability to pay.

Question 32

Describe how the Health Professions Act regulates health professionals in Alberta?

Answer 32

Regulates self governing professinals. They follow common rules , investigate complaints, educational standards and practice standards

Question 33

Describe the scope of practice of a Licensed Practical Nurse in Alberta?

Answer 33

its what a lpn can do and cant do after graduation. Apply nursing knowledge, skills, and judgment to assess clients needs.-Provide nursing care for clients and families. -Teach, manage, and conduct research in the science, techniques and practive of nursingand/or - Provide restricted activities authorized by the regulations.

Question 34

Describe the role of the College of Licensed Practical Nurses of Alberta (CLPNA) inregulating nursing practice?

Answer 34

To protect the public and keep you accountable. Responsibility to the Public Responsibility to Clients Responsibility to the Profession Responsibility to Colleagues Responsibility to Oneself

Question 35

Define collaborative practice as it relates to the Spheres of Caring conceptual framework Collaborative Practices put patients at the center of care?

Answer 35

The patient is at the center but an lpn must also relate to impacted friends and family members

Question 36

Describe various environments for LPN

Answer 36

hospitals, clinics, vaccine clinics, nursing homes, elementary schools and high school etc

Question 37

What was the impact of the Canadian Health Act on health care delivery?

Answer 37

Concept of social funded program introduction 1947, medicare act 1966, canada health act 1984

Question 38

What is the the scope of practice of a Licensed Practical Nurse in Alberta?

Answer 38

Framework that includes: regulation, standards of practice: code of ethics, entry to practice competencies and competency profile

Question 39

Define accessibility

Answer 39

Insured residents have reasonable access to health care facilities and providers

Question 40

Define portability

Answer 40

Insured residents can access health care services in another province or territory without cost or penalty

Question 41

Define universality

Answer 41

free of discrimination

Question 42

How does the Health Professions Act regulates health professionals in Alberta?

Answer 42

Sets standard of practice and the care you give, develops code of ethics, approves nursing education programs and power to give, suspend, revoke licenses.

Question 43

Define comprehensiveness

Answer 43

Covers all medically necessary hospital and physician services

Question 44

motivates one person to communicate with another

Answer 44

Referent

Question 45

the setting for sender-receiver interaction

Answer 45

Environment

Question 46

content of communication

Answer 46

Message

Question 47

means of conveying and receiving messages

Answer 47

channels