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World
History  |
First powered flight by
Wright Brothers (1903) |
Titanic sinks (1912) World
War I (1914-1918) |
Soviet Union established
(1922) |
Hitler comes to power in
Germany (1933) |
World War II (1939-1945) Cold
War between US & USSR (1947) |
Korean War (1950-53) USSR
launches Sputnik I, first satellite (1957)
Growth of suburbia |
US Peace Corps (1961),
Vietnam War (1964-75) Civil rights march (1965)
First man on Moon (1969) |
Oil crisis following Yom
Kippur War (1973) Watergate crisis (1972)
’76 Bicentennial |
IBM Personal Computer
introduced (1981) |
Collapse of USSR (1991);
Internet revolutionizes access to information National floods & earthquakes
(1992-93) |
Nursing
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Florence Nightingale
(1820-1910) |
Diploma schools major
source of nurses (1900-1950-Flexner Report for Medicine) |
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Birth of nursing research |
First Nursing Research
(1952) NIH Division of Nursing (1955) Birth of nursing theory |
Nurse Scientist Grants,
Surgeon General Consultant Group, ANA NP Position Paper (1965) |
Nursing Theory Conferences
1, 2, & 3 at KU; Lysaught Nursing Education Report |
ANA Social Policy Statement |
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Medicine
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Influenza pandemic kills 15
million (1918-1919) |
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Drug discoveries
anti-malarial, sulphonamide, TB, & antibiotics |
ECT used to treat
depression |
Salk discovered polio
vaccine (1955); Contra-ceptives developed |
Barnard did first heart
transplant (1967) |
CAT scanner developed |
MRI developed; Keyhole
surgery developed (1986); Prozac licensed |
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Scientific
& Technological Advances  |
ECG tests introduced by
Einthoven |
Einstein publishes General
Theory of Relativity (1916) |
Nation’s 1st
radio station KDKA Pittsburgh (1920) |
First renal dialysis
machine |
Nation’s 1st
TV broadcast from New York (1941) |
DNA structure defined;
Heart-Lung pump for open-heart surgery (1953) |
Hospice movement began
(1967) |
First test-tube baby born
(1978) |
First clinical description
of AIDS (1981) |
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US
Economic & Healthcare Market
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Stock Market crashes (1929)
farm income shrinks by 50% (1929-32) |
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Healthcare costs <$20
billion (1950) |
Healthcare costs = $27.1
billion (1960) |
Healthcare costs = $74.4
billion (1970) |
Healthcare costs = $250.1
billion (1980) Federal budget deficit >$100 billion for 1sttime |
Healthcare costs = $675
billion (1990) |
Healthcare costs = $1,000
billion (1994) or 14% of gross domestic product (GDP) |
Social
Policy
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National Association for
Advancement of Colored People formed |
16thAmendment
ratified (income tax1913) 18thAmendment ratified (alcohol prohibition 1919) |
19thAmendment
ratified (women vote 1920) Am. Indians granted citizenship (1924) Law restrict
immigration (1921-29) |
Roosevelt’s New Deal
(1933-38) Social Security Act of 1935 |
Selective Service Act
passed (1940) GI Bill of Rights (1944) United Nations founded (1945)
Taft-Hartley Act (labor unions 1947)
Hill Burton Act (195?) |
Black Civil Rights Struggle
(1954-55) Old-age Assistance & (OAA) Old-age Insurance (OAI) |
Great Society legislation
(1964-65) Medicare Act (federal health benefits >65yo) &
Medicaid for poor & disabled) Civil Rights Act (1964-68) |
Unemployment reaches
depression level of >10% Medicare HMO amendments debated |
Medicare’s Prospective
Payment System (PPS)(1983) |
Health-care reform
proposals presented (1994) |
US
Presidents
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William McKinley (R
1897-01) assassinated & Theodore Roosevelt succeeds (R 1901-09) |
William Taft (R 1909-13) Woodrow
Wilson (D 1913-21) |
Warren Harding (R 1921- 23)
& dies with Calvin Coolidge succeeds (R 1923-29) |
Herbert Hoover (R 1929-33)
Franklin Roosevelt (D 1933-45) |
Roosevelt dies & Harry
Truman succeeds (D 1945-53) |
Dwight Eisenhower (R) (1953-61) |
John Kennedy (D 1961-63)
assassinated & Lyndon Johnson succeeds (D 1963-69) |
Richard Nixon (R 1969 -74)
resigns & Gerald Ford succeeds (1974-77) Jimmy Carter (D 1977-81) |
Ronald Reagan (R 1981-89) George
Bush (R 1989-93) |
William Clinton (D 1993-00) |
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