A Nurse Working with Mary Breckinridge, Would Likely Have Assisted

question 26

Multiple Choice

A nurse working with Mary Breckinridge, would likely have assisted with what activity?

• A) Establishing the Henry Street Settlement
• B) Developing health programs geared toward improving the health care of the rural populations
• C) Blazing a nursing trail through the Rockies, providing nursing care to miners and their families
• D) Teaching birth control measures to large numbers of women in the South

Recognize the importance of environmental factors and community infrastructure in disease prevention.

Understand the historical development of public health initiatives and their impact on community health.

Analyze the role of government and non-governmental organizations in the advancement of public health.

Identify key figures and their contributions to public health and nursing.

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Definitions:

Extinction

In behavioral psychology, the process through which a conditioned response decreases in frequency and eventually disappears.

Omission Training

A behavior modification technique that involves removing a positive stimulus to decrease a behavior's frequency.

Operant Conditioning

A learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment.

Applied Behavior Analysis

A systematic approach to understanding behavior and applying interventions based on principles of behaviorism, often used in educational and therapeutic settings to improve or modify behaviors.