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AACN
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American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
*Members are baccalaureate and higher degree nursing education programs. *Association serves as a voice for these programs. |
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ANA
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American Nurses Association
*National association for RNs in the US *Founded in 1896 as the Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the US and Canada |
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APHA
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American Public Health Association
*National organization founded in 1872 to facilitate interdisciplinary efforts and promote public health. |
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Mary Breckinridge
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Pioneering nurse who established the Frontier Nursing Service to deliver community health services to families in rural Kentucky
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District Nursing
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system in public health nursing in which a nurse was assigned to a geographical district in town to provide a variety of health services for its residents.
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FNS
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Frontier Nursing Services - provides community health services to rural families in Kentucky.
*Begun in 1925 by Mary Breckinridge when she developed outpost centers throughout the mountain areas in Kentucky to provide midwifery and nursing, medical and dental care. *A hospital was established and began operating in Hyden, Kentucky 1935 |
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NLN
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National League for Nursing - national org that initially established nurse training standards and promoted collegial relations among nurses.
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Florence Nightingale
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an english nurse who is credited with establishing nursing as a discipline
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William Rathbone
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a British philanthropist who founded the first district nursing association in Liverpool, with Florence Nightingale, he advocated for district nursing throughout England.
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Shattuck Report
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the first attempt to describe a model approach to the organization of public health
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Social Security Act of 1935
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enacted to protect the health of people and included funds for education and employment of public health nurses
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visiting nurse association
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agencies staffed by nurses who provide care for patients and families most often in the home
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Lillian Wald & Mary Brewster
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the first public health nurse in the US and an influential social reformer. She founded the Henry Street Settlement (Later the Visiting Nurse Service of New York)
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Mary Adelaide Nutting
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established first postgraduate nursing course in public health nursing
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NOPHN
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National Organization for Public Health Nursing. Lillian Wald as its first president
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WWII brought about 2 new nursing organizations...
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NLN & ANA
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What organization in 1912 aimed to standardize public health nursing and community health nursing education?
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NOPHN
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