CHAPTER 5: SCHOOL NURSING

CHAPTER 5: SCHOOL NURSING

 

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

 

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

 

MULTIPLE CHOICE

 

1. Which of the following nurses convinced the New York Board of Health to place a nurse in the school system, thus establishing school nursing?

a.	Dorothea Dix	c.	Esther Lucille Brown
b.	Lillian Wald	d.	Anne Goodrich

 

 

ANS:  B

 

	Feedback
A	Incorrect: Dorthea Dix served as superintendent of the Union Army female nurses during the Civil War.
B	Correct: Lillian Wald convinced the New York Board of Health to place a nurse in the school system, thus establishing school nursing.
C	Incorrect: Ester Lucille Brown concluded in the Brown Report in 1948 that all nursing education programs should be affiliated with universities and have their own budget.
D	Incorrect: Anne Goodrich was the originator and dean of the Army School of Nursing and the first dean of Yale University School of Nursing, the first autonomous school of nursing in a university in the United States.

 

 

PTS:   1                    REF:   p. 120 – School Nursing                   OBJ:   Cognitive Level: Knowledge

 

2. The first school nurse in the United States in 1902 was:

a.	Lavinia Dock	c.	Lina Rogers
b.	Mary Adelaide Nutting	d.	Isabelle Hampton Robb

 

 

ANS:  C

 

	Feedback
A	Incorrect. Lavinia Dock was a public health nurse who started a visiting nurse service in Connecticut the 1880’s. She advocated for an international public health movement.
B	Incorrect. Mary Adelaide Nutting was a member of the first graduating class of Johns Hopkins Training School. In 1907 she became the first professor or nursing at Columbia University Teachers College.
C	Correct. In 1902, Lina Rogers became the first school nurse in the United States.
D	Incorrect. Isabelle Hampton Robb was the first superintendent of Johns Hopkins Training School in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1894.

 

 

PTS:   1                    REF:   p. 120 – School Nursing                   OBJ:   Cognitive Level: Knowledge

 

3. What major accomplishment occurred as the result of the work of the first school nurse in the United States?

a.	The number of children excluded from school dropped significantly.
b.	The incidence of whooping cough decreased by 50%.
c.	The number of playground accidents dropped significantly.
d.	The number of immunized children increased by 50%.

 

 

ANS:  A

 

	Feedback
A	Correct. Lillian Wald of New York City was astonished by the number of children who never returned to school after being excluded for a communicable disease. After the first school nurse was in place, the exclusion rates dropped significantly.
B	Incorrect. The noted major accomplishment as a result of adding the school nurse was not a decrease in whooping cough.
C	Incorrect. The noted major accomplishment as a result of adding the school nurse was not a decrease in playground accidents.
D	Incorrect. The noted major accomplishment as a result of adding the school nurse was not a increase in the number of immunized children.

 

 

PTS:   1                    REF:   p. 120 – School Nursing                   OBJ:   Cognitive Level: Knowledge

 

4. The original role of the school nurse was:

a.	identifying, educating, and following up on communicable diseases
b.	developing, teaching, and evaluating a comprehensive health curriculum
c.	home health visits to the ill child
d.	assisting the classroom teacher with hygiene teaching

 

 

ANS:  A

 

	Feedback
A	Correct. The original role of the school nurse was identifying, educating, and following up on communicable diseases.
B	Incorrect. The original role of the school nurse was not developing, teaching, and evaluating a comprehensive health curriculum.
C	Incorrect. The original role of the school nurse was not home health visits to the ill child.
D	Incorrect. The original role of the school nurse was not assisting the classroom teacher with hygiene teaching.

 

 

PTS:   1                    REF:   p. 120 – School Nursing                   OBJ:   Cognitive Level: Knowledge

 

5. During the 1920’s the school nurse role expanded to include:

a.	classroom teaching on how to deal with bomb threats and set up bomb shelters
b.	prevention of injury during natural disasters such as tornadoes or hurricanes
c.	identification of physical defects in children and making referrals to correct the defects
d.	identification of children with alcohol and other drug problems and proper referrals

 

 

ANS:  C

 

	Feedback
A	Incorrect. During the 1920’s the school nurse role was not expanded to include classroom teaching on how to deal with bomb threats and set up bomb shelters.
B	Incorrect. During the 1920’s the school nurse role was not expanded to include prevention of injury during natural disasters such as tornadoes or hurricanes.
C	Correct. During the 1920’s the school nurse role expanded to include identification of physical defects in children and making referrals to correct the defects.
D	Incorrect. During the 1920’s the school nurse role was not expanded to include identification of children with alcohol and other drug problems and proper referrals.

 

 

PTS:   1                    REF:   p. 120 – School Nursing

OBJ:   Cognitive Level: Comprehension