Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Trivia for Tix Contest

In order to win the Thunder Goes Pink tickets, answer the questions below.

The first SNA member to answer correctly all questions may pick up the tickets to the Thunder game in the nursing office!

1) One of the first formal nursing training programs was begun WHEN?
WHERE? BY WHO?
2) Which nursing school gave Florence Nightingale her formal training?
3) When was the Cadet Nursing Corps established? What was it established for?

4) In what year did SNA begin?

3 comments:

kdiddyRN said...

1. The first formal training programs for nurses was begun in 1836 in Kaiserwerth, Germany, by Pastor Theodor Fliedner (1800–64) for the Order of Deaconesses.
source-http://www.history.com/encyclopedia.do?articleId=217953

2.Fliedner's school is noteworthy for having given the British nursing reformer Florence Nightingale her formal training.
source-http://encarta.msn.com/text_761557139___2/Nursing.html

3.In 1943, facing a shortage of nurses that had been exacerbated by World War II, the Federal Government established the Cadet Nurse Corps within the Public Health Service (PHS).
source-http://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/apdb/phsHistory/resources/cadetnurse/nurse.html

4.The Foundation of the National Student Nurses Association (FNSNA) was created in 1969 to honor Frances Tompkins, the Association's first Executive Director.
source-http://www.nsna.org/foundation/index.asp

Sarah M said...

Darn I took too long to answer the questions!

Danielle Mathias-Lamb said...

We have a winner!! kdiddyrn, email me your full name and I'll leave the tix for you at the nursing office. Congratulations! Have a great time at the game!!


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