Who's That Lady
This lady was the first RN in the US
a. Clara Barton
b. Florence Nightingale
c. Josephine Burton Bradham
c. Josephine Burton Bradham!
She was registered on June 4th, 1903
Fun fact: Historically, Mary Rose Batterham was recognized as the first RN in the US, but in fact Bradham had actually registered the day before her (Appalachian State University, n.d.).
When did the first state pass legislation to make nursing licensure mandatory?
a. 1933
b. 1938
c. 1943
b. 1938!
This was in New York, but the law wasn't enacted until 1947 due to the nursing shortage in WWII (Benefiel, 2011).
True or False - Nursing was the first profession to use the same licensure exam nationwide
TRUE!
Although each state determined its own pass standards (Benefiel, 2011).
Which Victorian-era British author used one of his novels to call for the social reform of nursing?
a. Anthony Trollope
b. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
c. Charles Dickens
c. Charles Dickens!
He used his characters Sairey Gamp and Betsey in the novel Martin Chuzzlewit to call attention to the often poor nursing care of the day, as nursing was yet an unregulated profession (Roux & Halstead, 2018).
When did the licensure exam name get changed to "NCLEX-RN"?
a. 1982
b. 1992
c. 1972
a. 1982!
Number of exam questions were reduced from 720 to 480 questions (Benefiel, 2011).
This lady was the pioneer of public health nursing
a. Avril Smithson
b. Jane Addams
c. Lillian Wald
c. Lillian Wald!
Lillian Wald left medical school and founded the Nurses' Settlement (eventually known as Henry Street Settlement) with the goal of bringing affordable health care to residents of New York City's Lower East Side, where there was a large concentration of impoverished immigrants ("Wald, Lillian," n.d.).
When do we typically say that professional nursing began in the US?
a. The War of 1812
b. The Spanish-American War
c. The Civil War
c. The Civil War!
Wives, sisters, and mothers of soldiers would come to the battlefield to care for their loved ones and other. Others included volunteers or members of the religious community. An estimated 3,000 nurses served during the Civil War (Roux & Halstead, 2018).
Which university appointed the first professor of nursing at a US college/university?
a. NYU
b. Columbia University
c. Stanford University
b. Columbia University!
Yet another accomplishment of Lillian Wald! She was able to convince Columbia University to hire the first professor of nursing in the US ("Wald, Lillian," n.d.).
What British reformer known for laying the foundation for the profession of nursing was actually born into a wealthy family, who she shocked by her decision to choose a life of service?
a. Florence Nightingale
b. Mary Livermore
c. Clara Barton
a. Florence Nightingale!
She was expected to marry and have children according to the tradition of the day for upper class women, but instead she turned away her suitors and chose to care for the sick (Roux & Halstead, 2018).
Which nursing education program was "invented" by Mildred Montag after WWII to address the acute nursing shortage?
a. BSN
b. Apprenticeship
c. ADN
c. ADN!
The original intention was for ADNs to operate in a more limited scope than RNs, but this changed shortly after the degree's conception due to its popularity. In the 1970s graduate programs were on the upswing due to the advent of advanced practice roles and as we see, many institutions are starting to prefer BSN-trained nurses vs. ADN (Roux & Halstead, 2018).
This lady founded the American Birth Control League (predecessor of Planned Parenthood) in 1921
a. Annabelle Hastings
b. Josephine Burton Bradham
c. Margaret Sanger
c. Margaret Sanger!
Interesting fact: Margaret's mother died from TB when she was 49, which Margaret partly attributed to her mother's numerous pregnancies (18 in total) ("Sanger, Margaret," n.d.).
When did the president of the AMA, Samuel Gross, come out in strong support of formal training schools for nurses?
a. 1868
b. 1898
c. 1918
a. 1868!
He endorsed formal training for nurses shortly after the Civil War ended (Roux & Halstead, 2018).
Which organization is in charge of licensing exams for nursing?
a. ANA
b. NCSBN
c. CCRN
b. NCSBN
NCSBN stands for National Council of State Boards of Nursing and it was formed in 1978 to take over management of licensure exams for the ANA (Benefiel, 2011).
What was the first permanent school of nursing in the US located?
a. Women's Hospital of Philadelphia
b. Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston
c. Beth-Israel Medical Center in New York
a. Women's Hospital of Philadelphia!
The first permanent school of nursing in the US was established in 1872 at the Women's Hospital of Philadelphia, where the staff of the hospital was actually mostly female physicians (Roux & Halstead, 2018).
What advanced practice role was conceived of in response to concern for underserved populations' lack of primary care?
a. CNS
b. NP
c. PhD in Nursing
b. NP!
The role was first called "nurse practitioner" at the University of Colorado during a demonstration project (Roux & Halstead, 2018).
You may know her as an abolitionist and political activist who was instrumental on the "Underground Railroad," but this lady was actually also a nurse in the Civil War
a. Dorthea Dix
b. Harriet Tubman
c. Mary Livermore
b. Harriet Tubman!
She used home remedies and herbs to nurse soldiers during the Civil War (Roux & Halstead, 2018).
When was the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) enacted?
a. 1997
b. 2000
c. 2007
b. 2000!
Allows recognition of a license by multiple states (Benefiel, 2011).
Florence Nightingale took a group of upper class ladies to care for soldiers during which war that started in 1854 (where the mortality rate of British soldiers was 41%)?
a. Civil War
b. Crimean War
c. The War of 1812
b. Crimean War!
More soldiers were dying from disease than mortal wounds. Nightingale's belief that "dirt" caused disease meant that barracks and hospital wards were scrubbed clean. The result was that deaths decrease substantially (Roux & Halstead, 2018).
In which war did nurses first formally enter the army to become military nurses?
a. Spanish-American War
b. Mexican-American War
c. Civil War
a. Spanish-American War!
This war broke out in 1898 and 1,500 nurses became army nurses. The success of these army nurses led to the establishment of the Army Nurse Corps in 1901 and the Navy Nurse Corps in 1908 (Roux & Halstead, 2018).
When was the National Institutes of Health - Division of Nursing Research formed?
a. 1935
b. 1956
c. 1968
b. 1956!
The formation of the institute resulted in the provision of grants for research in nursing and improvements in nursing practice (Roux & Halstead, 2018).
This lady was the first African American graduate nurse
a. Linda Richards
b. Harriet Tubman
c. Mary Mahoney
c. Mary Mahoney!
She graduated from New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston (Roux & Halstead, 2018).
When was the first nursing association founded?
a. 1893
b. 1896
c. 1899
b. 1896!
This was the Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada, which would eventually become the ANA. This association was instrumental in the passage of the nurse practice act in each state and responsible for the code of ethics for nurses (Roux & Halstead, 2018).
Who pioneered education for hospital administrators?
a. Mary Breckenridge
b. Jessie Palmer Quimby
c. Sister John Gabriel
c. Sister John Gabriel!
She was instrumental in hospital policy in her day and led the way for Pacific Northwest hospitals to become accredited (Patricia, 2010).
How many nurses served in the US armed forces during WWII?
a. 15,000
b. 77,000
c. 1.2 million
b. 77,000!
Despite the fact that this was nearly half of the nurses in the US at the time, this number was still insufficient to meet the demand for nursing during WWII (Roux & Halstead, 2018).
What did nurse Donna Diers famously proclaim about critical care nursing?
a. "Get 'em in, churn 'em out"
b. "I got this, you go take a nap"
c. "Nursing is what is intensive in intensive care"
c. "Nursing is what is intensive in intensive care"
Critical care units were first formed in the 1950s out of necessity - night shift nursing staff was thin and as a result, more critically ill patients were grouped together (Patricia, 2010).