National Nurses United

CE_Sept 10/5/10 2:57 PM Page 23 For continuing education credit of 2.0 hours, please complete the following test, including the registration form at the bottom, and return it to: CNA/NNU Nursing Practice, 2000 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA 94612. We must receive the completed home study no later than November 30, 2010 in order for you to receive your continuing education credit. 1. The 19th Amendment to the Constitution is also referred to as "The Susan B. Anthony Amendment." It states: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." ❏ True ❏ False   2. Lavinia Dock vehemently opposed woman suffrage, claiming that wives and mothers could depend on their men folk to vote on legislation that would be in their best interests. ❏ True ❏ False   3. Lillian Wald believed that a woman's place was in the home and that nurses' interests would be best served by allowing physicians to determine their role in the community. ❏ True ❏ False   4. Many suffragists were verbally and physically assaulted while on the picket lines by anti-suffrage mobs while police looked on, failing to intervene and protect them. Suffragists who were arrested and incarcerated were subject to physical abuse by the police and their jailers, including being pushed, dragged, chained, isolated in solitary confinement, and violent force feedings. ❏ True ❏ False   5. Nurse Margaret Sanger was persecuted and arrested several times for providing information and education regarding birth control methods to women of all social classes at a time when speaking publicly in favor of birth control was illegal. ❏ True ❏ False   6. On January 9th, 1917, President Wilson reaffirmed his opposition to woman suffrage during a meeting with 300 suffragists lead by Alice Paul. He told the women he wanted no more of their delegations. The next day, Paul began a "perpetual delegation" of suffragists, the "Silent Sentinels" who picket the White House night and day for 18 months, until the 19th Amendment was passed by Congress. ❏ True ❏ False   7. Since the beginning of modern nursing, Lillian Wald and Lavinia Dock were among those who envisioned nursing as a social responsibility. Their ideal of a participatory democracy embraced professional and community values, collaboration, inclusion, and diversity. They believed the enfranchisement of women would provide them with the power to effect social reforms to improve the health of their patients. ❏ True ❏ False   8. Lavinia Dock was arrested in 1896 for engaging in an act of civil disobedience when she attempted to vote at her local polling place during New York City's elections in that year. ❏ True ❏ False   9. The First Amendment to the Constitution protects the right to freedom of religion and freedom of expression (freedom of expression consists of the rights to freedom of speech, press, assembly, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances, and the implied rights of association and belief) from government interference. However, beginning in 1917, there were nearly 500 recorded arrests of members of the National Women's Party and 168 women served jail time in connection with non-violent suffrage demonstrations. ❏ True ❏ False   Continuing Education Test Nursing, Suffrage, and Social Advocacy 10. Consistent with the historical model and tradition of social advocacy pioneered by nurses Lillian Wald, Lavinia Dock, Clara Barton, Margaret Sanger, Mary Mahoney, and Adah B. Thoms, professional nurses have the legal right and duty to engage in peaceful demonstrations to protest unsafe patient care and working conditions, as circumstances require, and seek enactment of legislation to improve the health of the public to ensure equal access for all to healthcare services. ❏ True ❏ False   Name:________________________________________________________________________________________ Address: ______________________________________________________________________________________ City:______________________________________________ State:_________ Zip: __________________________ Day phone with message machine: _____________________________ Email: _______________________________ RN license #: ______________________________Job Classification: ______________________________________ SEPTEMBER 2010 W W W. N A T I O N A L N U R S E S U N I T E D . O R G N AT I O N A L N U R S E 23

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