Author Question: A nurse is providing public health education based on the teachings of Lillian Wald. Which of the ... (Read 59 times)

ENagel · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

A nurse is providing public health education based on the teachings of Lillian Wald. Which of the following topics will the nurse most likely discuss?

a. Taking and recording blood pressures ac-curately
b. Safe and sanitary baby and child care
c. Environmental pollutants and their effects on lung disease
d. Time management: balancing factory work and the home

Question 2

A nurse was employed by the Marine Hospital Service. Which of the following tasks would have most likely been the responsibility of the nurse?

a. Setting policy on quarantine legislation for immigrants
b. Establishing hospital-based programs to care for the sick at home
c. Identifying and improving environmental conditions
d. Providing health care for merchant seamen

gstein359 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 8, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: B
Lillian Wald provided health care that included educating the community on health care matters. The focus of the majority of her work was on health services and health promotion for families and children. Because of her focus on health promotion for families and children, her primary role would not have been taking and recording blood pressures, discussing environmental pollu-tants (as her focus was not occupational health), or time management (as at this point in time very few women were working outside of the home).

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
Providing health care to seamen was an early effort by the federal government to improve public health. The purpose of the Marine Hospital Service was to secure its maritime trade and seacoast cities. Marine Hospital Service nurses did not establish policies or hospital programs. They also did not identify and improve environmental conditions as Florence Nightingale did. Their sole purpose was to provide care for this population.