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Ross-Kerr and Wood’s Canadian Nursing Issues & Perspectives: CDN NURSING ISSUES & PERSPECTIVES 6th Edition
Chapter 20 Questions
Question 1 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 2 of 5
Which Canadian province was the first to have a university admit women for study?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Mount Allison University in New Brunswick was the first to admit women for study, in 1872.
Question 3 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 4 of 5
Approximately what percentage of nurses in Canada held a baccalaureate degree as their highest level of education in 2017?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: In 2017, 52% of Canadian nurses in the workforce held a baccalaureate degree as their highest level of education.
Question 5 of 5
What group was responsible for providing the financial support that was required to enable the School of Nursing at McGill University to remain open in the late 1920s?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: The role of McGill alumnae groups across Canada ensured the survival of the McGill School for Graduate Nurses and was the critical factor in the resolution of the financial crisis that spanned more than a decade.