Chapter 2 - History Of Public & Community Health Nursing

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AACN

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American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
*Members are baccalaureate and higher degree nursing education programs.
*Association serves as a voice for these programs.

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ANA

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American Nurses Association
*National association for RNs in the US
*Founded in 1896 as the Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the US and Canada

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APHA

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American Public Health Association
*National organization founded in 1872 to facilitate interdisciplinary efforts and promote public health.

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Mary Breckinridge

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Pioneering nurse who established the Frontier Nursing Service to deliver community health services to families in rural Kentucky

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District Nursing

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system in public health nursing in which a nurse was assigned to a geographical district in town to provide a variety of health services for its residents.

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FNS

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Frontier Nursing Services - provides community health services to rural families in Kentucky.
*Begun in 1925 by Mary Breckinridge when she developed outpost centers throughout the mountain areas in Kentucky to provide midwifery and nursing, medical and dental care.
*A hospital was established and began operating in Hyden, Kentucky 1935

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NLN

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National League for Nursing - national org that initially established nurse training standards and promoted collegial relations among nurses.

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Florence Nightingale

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an english nurse who is credited with establishing nursing as a discipline

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William Rathbone

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a British philanthropist who founded the first district nursing association in Liverpool, with Florence Nightingale, he advocated for district nursing throughout England.

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Shattuck Report

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the first attempt to describe a model approach to the organization of public health

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Social Security Act of 1935

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enacted to protect the health of people and included funds for education and employment of public health nurses

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visiting nurse association

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agencies staffed by nurses who provide care for patients and families most often in the home

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Lillian Wald & Mary Brewster

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the first public health nurse in the US and an influential social reformer. She founded the Henry Street Settlement (Later the Visiting Nurse Service of New York)

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Mary Adelaide Nutting

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established first postgraduate nursing course in public health nursing

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NOPHN

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National Organization for Public Health Nursing. Lillian Wald as its first president

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WWII brought about 2 new nursing organizations...

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NLN & ANA

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What organization in 1912 aimed to standardize public health nursing and community health nursing education?

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NOPHN