Nursing Exam Study Guide

VR Homework Unit 1

  • Due Monday before 8:00 am.
  • Chapter 4 focuses on Florence Nightingale's major contributions to nursing and her treatment of the wounded in the Crimean War.

Nursing History - Chapter 4 & 8

  • First real school of nursing established in 1836 in Kaiserswerth.
    • Attendance was 3 months.
  • Florence Nightingale:
    • Born in Florence, Italy.
    • Came from a wealthy, influential family.
    • Practiced asepsis (though the transcript denotes "asepsisT without Health careot litteracy").
    • Called "birdie lady w/ lamp".
    • Was a prolific author.
    • Kept notes and "Rule to the right Sel Ich anything to:".

Key Concepts & People

  • Empathy: Understanding differences in cultures and why different things mean to different cultures (page 117).
  • Formal Nursing Program: Defined on page 113.
  • Active Listening/Behaviors: Important in home health.
  • Lillian Wald: Home health.
  • Core Beliefs: Discussed on page 56.
  • Florence Nightingale Standards and Lystra Gretter Beliefs of Nursing:
    • Pinning ceremony and its importance.
    • England High Moral care etc.

Nursing Focuses

  • Why nursing should be focused.

Civil War

  • Civil War (1861-1865).
  • Dorothea Dix. (line 54)

Nightingale

  • Nightingale school of nursing in England; elaborate on the concept (page 55).
  • Belief in handwashing and understanding asepsis in nursing (page 117).
  • How Willana In nursing.

Licensing

  • Mississippi was the first state to license nurses (page 58).

Communication

  • Blocks to communication: Know the blocks and be able to identify them (page 114).

Vietnam War

  • Vietnam War influence and nurses having PTSD (page 57).

Home to PHN

  • Home to PHN understandIPN shunits what dieses wereser.
  • Lillian Wald: Who moved then dark.

Training

  • Formal training (page 57, 113).
  • Trust/rapport (page 115).
  • 1917 Why (created.I

Smith-Hughes Act

  • Smith-Hughes Act (page 113).

Communication Process

  • Communication - Process (page 110):
    • Why good, why bad.
    • Communication process (page 110).
    • Non-verbal/verbal communication and essential components (page 112).
    • Blocks (pages 114, 112-118).

Key Terms

  • Matching, comparing, and contrasting terms (page 112).

Publications

  • SS 200 publication School of nursing (page 118).

SBAR

  • SBAR: Understand how and why (page 54).

Florence Nightingale Details

  • Details on who attended to who, who got called in.
  • Belief in clean medicals.
  • "Birdie Lady" and lamps (pages 53/54: know details).
  • Active listening type of questions (page 113), also pages 111-112 Type of communication
  • Now many times can you ask a Chapter4 51