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Ross-Kerr and Wood’s Canadian Nursing Issues & Perspectives: CDN NURSING ISSUES & PERSPECTIVES 6th Edition
Chapter 2 : Nursing in Canada, 1600s to the Present: A Brief Account Questions
Question 1 of 5
Which leading Canadian nurses helped establish the legislation for the registration of nurses, to raise the standard of professional nursing and to ensure those practising were qualified and able?
Correct Answer: B,C
Rationale: Isabel Hampton Robb and Adelaide Nutting were Canadian nurses living and working in the United States who advocated to secure legislation for the registration of nurses and helped to form the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools for Nurses of the United States and Canada.
Question 2 of 5
The Canadian Indigenous Nurses Association (CINA), formed in 1975, has which of the following goals?
Correct Answer: B,D
Rationale: The goals of the CINA were updated to include work on Indigenous health nursing issues, engage in research on Indigenous health nursing, and promote awareness of the health needs of Indigenous people.
Question 3 of 5
The story of the early colonization of which area in Canada parallels the development of nursing?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: The story of the early colonization of New France parallels the development of nursing, as it was during this period that initial healthcare efforts, including nursing, began to take shape.
Question 4 of 5
Which of the following groups represent the first Europeans to tend to the sick in what would become Canada?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: The first Europeans to tend to the sick were male attendants at a sick bay established at the French garrison in Port Royal, Acadia, in 1629.
Question 5 of 5
Indigenous people living in New France before Europeans often shared their successful health practices characterized by the use of medicinal plants. In the winter of 1536, the Indigenous people of the St. Lawrence Valley saved the crew of Jacques Cartier by which of the following methods?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Records show that the First Nations of the St. Lawrence River valley knew of the healing properties of conifers, particularly for treating conditions like scurvy. By boiling pine needles and parts of the bark, vitamin C was released; the decoction saved Jacques Cartier and his critically ill crew during the winter of 1536.