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Ross-Kerr and Wood’s Canadian Nursing Issues & Perspectives: CDN NURSING ISSUES & PERSPECTIVES 6th Edition
Chapter 20 : The Origins and Development of Nursing Education in Canada Questions
Question 1 of 5
By how many schools of nursing had been established in Canada by 1930?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: By 1930, there were 330 schools of nursing in Canada.
Question 2 of 5
Where were the nursing graduates of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries employed?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Because hospitals were staffed primarily by students in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, graduates who practised their profession usually did so as private-duty nurses in the homes of the sick.
Question 3 of 5
In the 1920s, the Weir Report identified the health of nursing students as a concern. At that time, student nurses were required to work up to how many hours per week?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: It was common for schools to require students to work as many as 78 hours per week with just one half-day off duty.
Question 4 of 5
What was the mandate of the National Curriculum Committee, which was organized in the 1930s by the Canadian Nurses Association, in response to the Weir Report?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: The recommendations of the Weir Report led the Canadian Nurses Association to organize the National Curriculum Committee with a mandate to develop a curriculum model for nursing education.
Question 5 of 5
What was the purpose of the Demonstration School, established in Windsor, Ontario, by the Canadian Nurses Association in 1948, with funding from the Red Cross?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: The purpose of the Demonstration School, established by the Canadian Nurses Association in Windsor in 1948, was to ascertain the feasibility of preparing nurses in less than three years.