TEST-BANK-FOR-CONTEMPORARY-NURSING-
ISSUES-TRENDS-EN-MANAGEMENT-9TH-
EDITION-BY-BARBARA-CHERRY-SUSAN-R.-JACOB-
CHAPTER-1-28.PDF
,Table of contents
Chapter 01: The Evolution of Professional Nursing
Chapter 02: The Contemporary Image of Professional Nursing
Chapter 03: The Influence of Contemporary Trends and Issues on Nursing Education
Chapter 04: Nursing Licensure and Certification
Chapter 05: Theories of Nursing Practice
Chapter 06: Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice
Chapter 07: Paying for Health Care in America: Rising Costs and Challenges
Chapter 08: Legal Issues in Nursing and Health Care
Chapter 09: Ethical and Bioethical Issues in Nursing and Health Care
Chapter 10: Cultural Competency and Social Issues in Nursing and Health Care Cherry
Chapter 11: Complementary and Alternative Healing
Chapter 12: Palliative Care
Chapter 13: Workforce Advocacy for a Professional Nursing Practice Environment
Chapter 14: Collective Bargaining and Unions in Today’s Workplace
Chapter 15: Information Technology in the Clinical Setting
Chapter 16: Emergency Preparedness and Response for Today’s World
Chapter 17: Nursing Leadership and Management
Chapter 18: Budgeting Basics for Nurses
Chapter 19: Effective Communication and Conflict Resolution
Chapter 20: Effective Delegation and Supervision
Chapter 21: Staffing and Nursing Care Delivery Models
Chapter 22: Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
Chapter 23: Health Policy and Politics: Get Involved!
Chapter 24: Clinical Judgment
Chapter 25: Making the Transition From Student to Professional Nurse
Chapter 26: Managing Time: The Path to High Self-Performance
Chapter 27: Job Search: Finding Your Match
Chapter 28: The NCLEX-RN® Examination
,Chapter 01: The Evolution of Professional Nursing
Cherry: Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, and Management, 9th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. What accomplishment is Clara Barton best known for?
a. Becoming the first black public health nurse
b. Establishing the Henry Street Settlement
c. Founding the American Red Cross
d. Publicizing the inadequacies of hospital-based nursing schools
ANS: C
The American Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton in 1882, to be of assistance in efforts
to provide supplies to the battlefields and hospitals. Barton also sets up a postwar service to
find missing soldiers.
DIF:Knowledge
2. Students are assigned to write to their state leaders about an issue affecting their community.
One student writes about the need among rural community for greater access to acute care
services. Which piece of legislation should the student use as a reference?
a. Social Security Act
b. Hill-Burton Act
c. Sheppard-Towner Act
d. U.S. Civil Service Act
ANS: B
The purpose of the Hill-Burton Act was to provide funding to construct hospitals and to help
states in plan for other health care facilities in accordance with the needs of communities.
DIF:Knowledge
3. The practice of public health nursing and the Henry Street Settlement are credited to
a. Mary Breckenridge.
b. Mary Seacole.
c. Clara Barton.
d. Lillian Wald.
ANS: D
Lillian Wald, a pioneer in public health nursing, is best known for the development and
establishment of the Henry Street Settlement.
DIF:Knowledge
4. Occupational health nursing features beliefs similar to those of which early nursing pioneer?
a. Lillian Wald
b. Florence Nightingale
c. Clara Barton
d. Mary Seacole
ANS: A
Lillian Wald was a pioneer in public health nursing, and is best known for the development
and establishment of the first viable practice for public health nurses.
, DIF:Comprehension
5. Which factor most strongly influenced the shift of nursing from domestic care to an organized
profession in the 19th century?
A. Advances in pharmacology
B. Industrialization and urban crowding
C. Expansion of private health insurance
D. Increased physician authority
ANS:B
Rationale:
Industrialization led to overcrowded cities, poor sanitation, and widespread disease. These conditions
exposed the inadequacy of informal caregiving and created the need for organized, trained nurses. This
societal pressure—not medicine or insurance—was the primary driver of professional nursing’s emergence.
6. Florence Nightingale’s most enduring contribution to professional nursing was her:
A. Development of antiseptic surgery
B. Establishment of hospital-based nursing schools
C. Use of statistics to link environment and patient outcomes
D. Promotion of physician-led nursing practice
ANS:C
Rationale:
Nightingale pioneered the use of statistical analysis to demonstrate that sanitation reduced mortality. This
evidence-based approach laid the foundation for modern nursing research and public health, making her
influence far broader than education alone.
7. Which historical development most directly transformed nursing into a female-dominated
profession?
A. Religious orders controlling hospitals
B. War-time nursing demands
C. Nightingale’s moral and educational reforms
D. Expansion of community health services
ANS:C
Rationale:
Nightingale redefined nursing as morally upright, disciplined, and respectable—qualities aligned with
ISSUES-TRENDS-EN-MANAGEMENT-9TH-
EDITION-BY-BARBARA-CHERRY-SUSAN-R.-JACOB-
CHAPTER-1-28.PDF
,Table of contents
Chapter 01: The Evolution of Professional Nursing
Chapter 02: The Contemporary Image of Professional Nursing
Chapter 03: The Influence of Contemporary Trends and Issues on Nursing Education
Chapter 04: Nursing Licensure and Certification
Chapter 05: Theories of Nursing Practice
Chapter 06: Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice
Chapter 07: Paying for Health Care in America: Rising Costs and Challenges
Chapter 08: Legal Issues in Nursing and Health Care
Chapter 09: Ethical and Bioethical Issues in Nursing and Health Care
Chapter 10: Cultural Competency and Social Issues in Nursing and Health Care Cherry
Chapter 11: Complementary and Alternative Healing
Chapter 12: Palliative Care
Chapter 13: Workforce Advocacy for a Professional Nursing Practice Environment
Chapter 14: Collective Bargaining and Unions in Today’s Workplace
Chapter 15: Information Technology in the Clinical Setting
Chapter 16: Emergency Preparedness and Response for Today’s World
Chapter 17: Nursing Leadership and Management
Chapter 18: Budgeting Basics for Nurses
Chapter 19: Effective Communication and Conflict Resolution
Chapter 20: Effective Delegation and Supervision
Chapter 21: Staffing and Nursing Care Delivery Models
Chapter 22: Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
Chapter 23: Health Policy and Politics: Get Involved!
Chapter 24: Clinical Judgment
Chapter 25: Making the Transition From Student to Professional Nurse
Chapter 26: Managing Time: The Path to High Self-Performance
Chapter 27: Job Search: Finding Your Match
Chapter 28: The NCLEX-RN® Examination
,Chapter 01: The Evolution of Professional Nursing
Cherry: Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, and Management, 9th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. What accomplishment is Clara Barton best known for?
a. Becoming the first black public health nurse
b. Establishing the Henry Street Settlement
c. Founding the American Red Cross
d. Publicizing the inadequacies of hospital-based nursing schools
ANS: C
The American Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton in 1882, to be of assistance in efforts
to provide supplies to the battlefields and hospitals. Barton also sets up a postwar service to
find missing soldiers.
DIF:Knowledge
2. Students are assigned to write to their state leaders about an issue affecting their community.
One student writes about the need among rural community for greater access to acute care
services. Which piece of legislation should the student use as a reference?
a. Social Security Act
b. Hill-Burton Act
c. Sheppard-Towner Act
d. U.S. Civil Service Act
ANS: B
The purpose of the Hill-Burton Act was to provide funding to construct hospitals and to help
states in plan for other health care facilities in accordance with the needs of communities.
DIF:Knowledge
3. The practice of public health nursing and the Henry Street Settlement are credited to
a. Mary Breckenridge.
b. Mary Seacole.
c. Clara Barton.
d. Lillian Wald.
ANS: D
Lillian Wald, a pioneer in public health nursing, is best known for the development and
establishment of the Henry Street Settlement.
DIF:Knowledge
4. Occupational health nursing features beliefs similar to those of which early nursing pioneer?
a. Lillian Wald
b. Florence Nightingale
c. Clara Barton
d. Mary Seacole
ANS: A
Lillian Wald was a pioneer in public health nursing, and is best known for the development
and establishment of the first viable practice for public health nurses.
, DIF:Comprehension
5. Which factor most strongly influenced the shift of nursing from domestic care to an organized
profession in the 19th century?
A. Advances in pharmacology
B. Industrialization and urban crowding
C. Expansion of private health insurance
D. Increased physician authority
ANS:B
Rationale:
Industrialization led to overcrowded cities, poor sanitation, and widespread disease. These conditions
exposed the inadequacy of informal caregiving and created the need for organized, trained nurses. This
societal pressure—not medicine or insurance—was the primary driver of professional nursing’s emergence.
6. Florence Nightingale’s most enduring contribution to professional nursing was her:
A. Development of antiseptic surgery
B. Establishment of hospital-based nursing schools
C. Use of statistics to link environment and patient outcomes
D. Promotion of physician-led nursing practice
ANS:C
Rationale:
Nightingale pioneered the use of statistical analysis to demonstrate that sanitation reduced mortality. This
evidence-based approach laid the foundation for modern nursing research and public health, making her
influence far broader than education alone.
7. Which historical development most directly transformed nursing into a female-dominated
profession?
A. Religious orders controlling hospitals
B. War-time nursing demands
C. Nightingale’s moral and educational reforms
D. Expansion of community health services
ANS:C
Rationale:
Nightingale redefined nursing as morally upright, disciplined, and respectable—qualities aligned with
