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Unit 1 Questions (Chapters 1-6) Instructions: Answer the following questions and upload your completed assignment directly via the Canvas assignment link by the specified deadline. Bulleted responses - as opposed to paragraphs - are acceptable. Please include page numbers for the corresponding information found within the course textbook.

Chapter 1 1. Discuss the impact of the Crimean War and the American Civil War on medical practices, the building of hospitals, and the field of nursing. Crimean War: a. Nightingale believed there was many factors that contributed to health of patients: i. Proper nutrition, pure air, clean water, efficient latrines, cleanliness, quiet/peaceful atmosphere, & adequate light 2. Nightingale emphasized the need for adequate ventilation and cleanliness and thus opened windows to allow fresh air to freely circulate; sanitation arises. 3. Mary Jane Seacole set up a hotel, store and restaurant behind the Crimean war line to nurse and feed wounded soldiers American Civil War a. Innovations included ambulance systems & field hospitals as well as the birth of modern nursing b. Clara Barton is the founder of the Red Cross c. Hospitals should be restructured from wards into rooms for each patient in order to provide sufficient space/ventilation – Dr. Simpson. 2. Before the germ theory of disease was established, what practices by 19th-century surgeons caused sepsis in postoperative patients and mothers during childbirth? a. Lack of sanitization by surgeons and unsanitary procedures 3. Explain how Lister’s use of antiseptics revolutionized medicine. a. Lister’s use of antiseptics revolutionized medicine because when he applied antiseptics to the patients’ incision sites, they healed and the patient recovered. Thus, leading him to transform surgery and safe procedures by using chemically treated dressings and carbolic acid sprays as a Post OP measure to cleanse hands of surgeons. 4. Even though 19th-century surgeons did not see microbes, some of them believed that microbes were in the air and caused disease. What kinds of observations led them to believe in microbes even though the microbes were unseen? a. They thought this because patients kept on getting sicker and sicker and they didn’t know why. So, they blamed it on microbe particles in the air of operating rooms and assumed that they were the contaminants that lead to patients getting worse and not recovering. 5. List five individuals and their contributions to the field of microbiology or medicine.

1. Semmelweis: ordered everyone to wash their hands before entering maternity wards, had efforts to drop the mortality rate to...