Online Companion: Fundamentals of Nursing Standards and Practice 2E

Chapter Objectives

After reading Chapter 1, the student should be ready to
• Discuss how nursing's history informs the challenges that nursing faces in the new millennium
• Describe how Florence Nightingale's ideas about nursing influence today's practice
• Identify how wars influenced the development of the nursing profession
• List three areas of controversy about nursing education that have arisen in America
• Trace nursing's historical involvement with advocacy for vulnerable populations in the society
• Discuss the important studies and reports about nursing education in U.S.A.
• Describe how health insurance has impacted the health care system in U.S.A.
• Identify the major goals of the Healthy People program