NURS 1710 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Speech-Language Pathology, Nonverbal Communication, Grey Nuns
Introduction to Nursing Midterm Exam Review
Questions/Answers:
1. Define the following terms:
a. Nursing:
b. Profession:
c. Health: A dynamic process whereby the individual, family or community is able to
realize aspirations, satisfy needs and change or cope with the environment.
d. Wellness:
e. Illness: Illness is a subjective experience of loss of health.
f. Disease: disease is an objective state of ill health; pathology of disease can be
detected by medical science.
g. Social Justice:
h. Role: Traditional pattern of behavior and self-expression performed by or
expected of an individual within a given society.
i. Stereotypes: The process of attributing characteristics to a group of people as
though all persons in the identified group possess them/
j. Socialization:
k. Health Promotion: Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase
control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health.
(focuses on personal health services, whereas PHC extends to include health
education, nutrition, maternal and child care, immunizations and control or locally
endemic diseases)
l. Disease Prevention: A concept concerned with identifying modifiable risk and
protective factors associated with disease and disorders.
m. Primary Care: Refers to a wide range of integrated ambulatory health care
services delivered in community-based settings. (decision regarding a course of
action to resolve actual or potential health problems).
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n. Primary Health Care: PHC is a philosophy and model for improving health that
supports essential health care services, with a strong emphasis on the principles
of health promotion and disease prevention.
o. Evidence-Based Practice: EIP is critical aspect of clinical decision making and an
influential strategy for nurses to improve patient outcomes.
2. French nuns were sent to New France where they were motivated by Christian ideas of
educating native children and caring for the sick.
3. Who were the Grey Nuns?
a. The Grey Nuns were the first visiting nurses in Canada; they were a small group
of women with charitable intentions to help the poor.
4. What did the Grey Nuns do during the British Regime?
a. They designated a ward of the General Hospital of Montreal for the care of
english soldiers; helping care for soldiers of both sides.
5. The Grey Nuns established systems of healthcare in isolated settlements out west.
6. What movement did Florence Nightingale set in motion?
a. She set in motion, the movement to improve standards of nursing care.
7. Florence Nightingale is considered the founder of modern nursing.
8. When did the nursing profession begin to boom?
a. In the nineteenth century.
9. Why is Florence Nightingale famous?
a. She would care for the wounded and make them comfortable in ways that would
foster their recovery; successes in reducing mortality and morbidity.
10. In 1860 Florence Nightingale did what?
a. She founded the a financially-independent school of nursing.
11. What were hospital schools? What did they do?
a. Hospital schools gave nurses free education, housing and meals in exchange
for free labour.
b. The working and housing conditions were terrible (cramped and long hours)
12. Nurses were originally taught to report faithfully to the attending physician.
13. What is the Victorian Order of Nurses?
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a. It signified a professional standard of education for Canadian nurses that
recognized the need not only for selflessness and compassion but also for
nursing knowledge.
b. Improved educational standards.
14. Who was Marie Agnes Snively and what did she do?
a. She was a superintendent at Toronto General Hospital School of Nursing
b. She established proper living conditions for students, a curriculum criteria for
clinical and educational time.
15. What did the Weir Report fo for nursing?
a. It ended exploitation in the apprenticeship system and the goal of nursing
programs became education.
16. What was the impact that WWII had on the nursing profession?
a. The casualties from WWII lead to new value being placed on promoting and
maintaining health → led to more support for public health programs.
b. Nurses were seen as central participants who needed university education.
17. What did the Canadian Red-Cross do for the advancement of nursing education?
a. They awarded grants to Canadian universities to develop post graduate courses
in nursing.
18. The first nursing undergraduate program was established at the University of British
Columbia in 1919.
19. What was the effect that the Great Depression had on the nursing profession?
a. Brought unemployment and hardship on nurses. Patients could no longer afford
to employ private-duty nurses; the most promising area of employment for
graduate nurses.
20. Name five key historical documents that were discussed in class.
a. The Lalonde Report
b. Health for All
c. The Alma Ata Declaration
d. The Epp Framework
e. The Ottawa Charter
21. What did the Ottawa Charter do?
a. Identified prerequisites for health.
a.i. Peace, shelter, education, food, income, stable ecosystem, social justice
and equality.
22. What did the LaLonde report do?
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Document Summary
Questions/answers: define the following terms, nursing, profession, health: a dynamic process whereby the individual, family or community is able to realize aspirations, satisfy needs and change or cope with the environment, wellness: e. It signified a professional standard of education for canadian nurses that recognized the need not only for selflessness and compassion but also for nursing knowledge. Columbia in 1919: what was the effect that the great depression had on the nursing profession, brought unemployment and hardship on nurses. Peace, shelter, education, food, income, stable ecosystem, social justice and equality: what did the lalonde report do, created five strategies for health promotion. a. i. Biological, environmental, lifestyle: what did the health for all report do? a. Identified public health are to attain health for all: what did the epp framework do, worked on reducing inequities, enhancing coping mechanism and increasing prevention.
