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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?
- A. Lavonia Deck
- B. Isabel Hampton Robb
- C. Adelaide Nutting
- D. Ethel Bedford-Fenwick
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.
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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 reports provided the first evidence of concern about disease prevention and health maintenance at the federal government level, thereby aiding the public health nursing movement?
- A. The Epp Report
- B. The Hall Report
- C. The Lalonde Report
- D. The Romanow Report
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: The Lalonde Report in 1975 provided the first evidence of concern about disease prevention and health maintenance at the federal government level in Canada.
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.
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?
- A. Boiling in water before drinking
- B. Making tea from the bark of conifers
- C. Teaching them how to ice fish
- D. Preserving fresh berries
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.
The organization of the first visiting nurses of Canada, the Grey Nuns, was founded in 1730 in which province?
- A. All the first province?
- B. Quebec
- C. Saskatchewan
- D. British Columbia
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Marquette d'Youville founded the Sisters of Charity of Montreal, or les Soeurs Grises (the Grey Nuns), in 1736 in Quebec.