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What strategy did governments employ to address the nursing shortage in the early 2000's?
- A. Hire more licensed practical nurses
- B. Increase hourly wages
- C. Improve working conditions
- D. Hire more nurse managers
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: One strategy that governments used to address nursing shortages in the early 2000s was to hire more licensed practical nurses (LPNs). In 2003, LPNs represented 23% of regulated nurses in Canada, while in 2017, they represented 27%.
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As the co-founder of the city of Montreal, and a highly respected 'nurse,' which nurse has an award in her name that is considered the highest award in Canada for contributions to the profession of nursing?
- A. Jeanne Mance
- B. Anne Dufrose
- C. Marie de Chamedey
- D. Anne Lecointe de St Bernard
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: The highest award of the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) for contribution to the profession is named the Jeanne Mance Award. Jeanne Mance is the most celebrated nurse in Canadian nursing history. She was the co-founder of Montreal and was also held in very high regard for the hospital she founded and the work she did ministering to Aboriginal people and settlers alike.
The Canadian Indigenous Nurses Association (CINA), formed in 1975, has which of the following goals?
- A. Work on public health nursing issues
- B. Work on Indigenous health nursing issues
- C. Engage in research on youth and addictions
- D. Promote awareness of Indigenous health needs
- E. Support traditional Indigenous health practices
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.
In 2018 the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) supported expanding membership to include which of the following groups?
- A. Physicians
- B. Licensed practical nurses
- C. Nurse practitioners
- D. Student nurses
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: On June 18, 2018, voting delegates at CNA's annual meeting of members voted overwhelmingly in favour of expanding CNA's membership to include licensed practical nurses (known as registered practical nurses in Ontario) and registered psychiatric nurses (regulated in the four western provinces and Yukon).
Which of the following groups represent the first Europeans to tend to the sick in what would become Canada?
- A. Jesuit priests from New France
- B. European females from England
- C. Aboriginal females from Quebec
- D. The original females from Port Royal
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.
Communicable disease took a major toll on the health of the nuns who first worked in Quebec to care for the sick. In which year did the worst recorded smallpox epidemicâ??during which more than a quarter of the nuns diedâ??take place?
- A. 1694
- B. 1697
- C. 1700
- D. 1703
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Epidemics took place from time to time when Quebec was first settled by Europeans, but the worst appears to have been a smallpox epidemic in 1703, when more than a quarter of the nuns died.