Exam 2: Historical Factors: Community Health Nursing in Context

A nurse has determined that there is always a consistent level of people in the population who experience pneumonia. Which of the following best describes the prevalence of this disease?

Which of the following best describes the primary concern both historically and today for many people when they become ill?

Which of the following scientific beliefs or ideas eventually changed medical practice and decreased morbidity and mortality?

Which of the following diseases provided immunity to smallpox?

Which of the following nursing interventions would have most likely been used by Florence Nightingale when treating wounded soldiers?

Which of the following statements best summarizes the view of nurses as seen in novels over the past 100 years?

Why did local and state governments start to become more involved in controlling disease?

A scholar during the Sanitary Revolution created medical topographies. What was the advantage of these surveys?

Which of the following of Nightingale's ideas were forgotten until recently? (Select all that apply.)

Which of the following best describes the achievement that Lemuel Shattuck is well known for in the United States?

Which of the following interventions was most helpful in assisting people become educated on healthful living in nineteenth-century England?

Which of the following statements best describes why there is an increased need for advanced practice nurses in primary care?

When comparing a surgeon today with a surgeon of Nightingale's time, which of the following best describes the primary difference in how they would operate on a patient?

Which of the following best describes the first measures used by large communities to ensure community health?

Which of the following best describes the time period when communities began to agree on collective action to stay healthy?