PCC Exam 1, 2026 – Law & Ethics Study and Practice
Material
Define professional nursing - correct answer ✔✔ The protection, promotion, and optimization
of health abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis
and treatment of human response and advocacy in the care of individuals, families,
communities, and populations
Past nursing leaders - correct answer ✔✔ -Florence Nightingale: put in charge of nursing British
and allied soldiers in Turkey during the Crimean War. "Lady with the Lamp"
-Clara Barton: pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross
-Lillian Wald: American nurse humanitarian and author. Founder of American community
nursing.
-Harriet Tubman: served during the war as a nurse, scout, and spy for the Union
-Isabel Hampton Robb: American nurse theorist, author, nursing school administrator and early
leader
-Lavinia Dock: A nurse, feminist, authour, pioneer in nursing education and social activist.
Assistant superintendent at John Hopkins School of Nursing under Isabel Hampton
-Mary Adelaide Nutting: She was a graduate of the first class of Johns Hopkins Hospital school of
nursing
Educational pathways to nursing practice - correct answer ✔✔ -Practical and Vocational Nursing
Education (LPN)
-Registered Nursing Education (Associate degree/Diploma in nursing or Baccalaureate in
Nursing)
-Advanced Practice/Graduate Education in Nursing (Master's and Doctoral education in Nursing
DNP/PhD)
Important nursing organizations - correct answer ✔✔ Sigma Theta Tau International
, -National Honor Society for Nursing
-Delta Beta at Large: USF
National Nursing Organizations
-American Nurses Association
-Florida Nurses Association
-National League for Nursing
-American Association of Colleges of Nursing
-National Student Nurses Association
Briefly address licensure - correct answer ✔✔ The NCLEX exam, also known as the National
Council Licensure Examination, is a standardized exam that each state board of nursing uses to
determine whether a candidate is prepared for entry-level nursing practice.
-Nurse practice acts: laws that regulate practice
-State Boards of Nursing: define practice, establish criteria for licensure, scope of practice,
enforce rules that govern nursing
Role of the Nurse - correct answer ✔✔ Center for health care delivery. Holistic care - an
integrated approach to health care that treats the "whole" person, not simply symptoms and
disease. Mind and body are integrated and inseparable.
Role of Acute Care Nurses (practice inside the hospital) - correct answer ✔✔ -staff nurse - direct
care, specific patients, assigned times
-nurse manager - accountable in specific area
-nurse administrator - organizational responsibility
-nurse researcher - research, validates with data
-nurse educator - teaches, researches, directs, evaluates
Material
Define professional nursing - correct answer ✔✔ The protection, promotion, and optimization
of health abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis
and treatment of human response and advocacy in the care of individuals, families,
communities, and populations
Past nursing leaders - correct answer ✔✔ -Florence Nightingale: put in charge of nursing British
and allied soldiers in Turkey during the Crimean War. "Lady with the Lamp"
-Clara Barton: pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross
-Lillian Wald: American nurse humanitarian and author. Founder of American community
nursing.
-Harriet Tubman: served during the war as a nurse, scout, and spy for the Union
-Isabel Hampton Robb: American nurse theorist, author, nursing school administrator and early
leader
-Lavinia Dock: A nurse, feminist, authour, pioneer in nursing education and social activist.
Assistant superintendent at John Hopkins School of Nursing under Isabel Hampton
-Mary Adelaide Nutting: She was a graduate of the first class of Johns Hopkins Hospital school of
nursing
Educational pathways to nursing practice - correct answer ✔✔ -Practical and Vocational Nursing
Education (LPN)
-Registered Nursing Education (Associate degree/Diploma in nursing or Baccalaureate in
Nursing)
-Advanced Practice/Graduate Education in Nursing (Master's and Doctoral education in Nursing
DNP/PhD)
Important nursing organizations - correct answer ✔✔ Sigma Theta Tau International
, -National Honor Society for Nursing
-Delta Beta at Large: USF
National Nursing Organizations
-American Nurses Association
-Florida Nurses Association
-National League for Nursing
-American Association of Colleges of Nursing
-National Student Nurses Association
Briefly address licensure - correct answer ✔✔ The NCLEX exam, also known as the National
Council Licensure Examination, is a standardized exam that each state board of nursing uses to
determine whether a candidate is prepared for entry-level nursing practice.
-Nurse practice acts: laws that regulate practice
-State Boards of Nursing: define practice, establish criteria for licensure, scope of practice,
enforce rules that govern nursing
Role of the Nurse - correct answer ✔✔ Center for health care delivery. Holistic care - an
integrated approach to health care that treats the "whole" person, not simply symptoms and
disease. Mind and body are integrated and inseparable.
Role of Acute Care Nurses (practice inside the hospital) - correct answer ✔✔ -staff nurse - direct
care, specific patients, assigned times
-nurse manager - accountable in specific area
-nurse administrator - organizational responsibility
-nurse researcher - research, validates with data
-nurse educator - teaches, researches, directs, evaluates
