Introduction to Professional Nursing Exam #1
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
In early times, nurses were- - CORRECT ANSWER -Servants
Women of religious orders
Wealthy women (as acts of charity)
Florence Nightingale - CORRECT ANSWER -*The founder of modern nursing*
Born in 1820, began nurses' training in Germany at age 30
Tended to wounded British soldiers at Scutari Hospital in Turkey during the *Crimean War*
Reformed British Army Hospitals
Established the first training school for nurses in London.
Wrote a famous book in 1859 called *Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not*
Sairy Gamp - CORRECT ANSWER -A Dicken's character
Portrayed that hospitals were a place to die - patients were cared for by prostitutes, drunks, and convicts
Clara Barton - CORRECT ANSWER -Founded the Red Cross
Dorothea Dix - CORRECT ANSWER -Reformer who was a pioneer in the movement for better treatment of the
mentally ill
Mary Eliza Mahoney - CORRECT ANSWER -1st professionally educated African American nurse in the United
States
Isabel Hampton Robb - CORRECT ANSWER -Founded the National League for Nursing (NLN) and the American
Nurses Association (ANA).
Lillian Wald - CORRECT ANSWER -Nurse and social activist
Founded the Henry Street Settlement - The first public health nursing organization
One of the founding members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Margaret Sanger - CORRECT ANSWER -United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned
parenthood
Lavina Dock - CORRECT ANSWER -Part of the nursing education reform and the women's suffrage movement
Jessie Sleet Scales - CORRECT ANSWER -The 1st African American public health nurse
Established the Stillman House, a branch of the Henry Street Settlement
Mary Breckinridge - CORRECT ANSWER -Founder of the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS)
This service provided the first organized widwifery program in the United States
What was Florence Nightingale's affect on the British Barrack Hospital Reform? - CORRECT ANSWER -She
reduced the mortality rate in British hospitals during the Crimean war by providing food, cleanliness, sunlight, and caring
for the patients.
How have wars influenced the profession of nursing? - CORRECT ANSWER -It changed the image of nursing to
"heroes" and "angels", strong and noble.
It made people acknowledge the contribution of nursing and demonstrated the value of care.
WW2 represented the coming of age for __________ nurses. - CORRECT ANSWER -Colored
The _____________ _____________ War was the first war that nurses were asked to volunteer. - CORRECT
ANSWER -Spanish American
, Edith Cavell - CORRECT ANSWER -Executed in Germany for helping soldiers escape in WW1
The sexual revolution began in the ___________. - CORRECT ANSWER -1960's
"Hotlips Hoolihan"
MASH- Movie, TV
Nurse Ratched - CORRECT ANSWER -Battle Axe Nurse
The 1970s version of Sairy Gamp
Negative Contemporary Images of Nursing Today - CORRECT ANSWER -Bimbo- Sex Symbol
"Naughty nurse"
Examples of some images of nursing throughout the years- - CORRECT ANSWER -Angels of mercy
Handmaidens
Sex symbols
Bimbos
Battle Axes
Sadistic torturers
Social, Political, Economic Factors when it comes to the Image of Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER -Feminism
Women's movement
Consumer movement
Graying of America
Cultural diversity
Men in nursing
Violence
Technological advances
The three major concepts of nursing- - CORRECT ANSWER -1. Person/individual
2. Environment
3. Health
Concept of Nursing- Person/Individual - CORRECT ANSWER -An open system with numerous subsystems
(respiratory, gastrointestinal, neurological) that make up the whole person.
Unique + adaptable, influenced by genetics and the environment
Human needs (Maslow)
Homeostasis
Human Needs Theory- Maslow's Theory - CORRECT ANSWER -Human behavior is motivated by intrinsic needs:
Physiological needs -> safety needs -> social needs -> esteem needs -> self actualization
Adaptation - CORRECT ANSWER -Theory by Carl Rogers
A person's needs change as the person changes.
Explains why a person may be become anxious in a hospital setting
A system is- - CORRECT ANSWER -A set of interrelated parts that come together to form a whole that performs a
function
Components of systems - CORRECT ANSWER -*Input*- the raw material that enters a system and is transformed
by it. Ex- students
*Throughput*- consists of the processes a system uses to convert raw materials (input) into a form that can be used. Ex-
clinicals
*Output*- the end result or product of the system. Ex- graduates
*Evaluation*- measuring the success or failure of the output and the effectiveness of the system. Ex- NCLEX pass rates
*Feedback* the information given back into the system to determine whether the purpose, or end result, of the system has
been achieved.
Synergy - CORRECT ANSWER -Occurs when all various subsystems work together to achieve a result that is not
independently achievable.
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
In early times, nurses were- - CORRECT ANSWER -Servants
Women of religious orders
Wealthy women (as acts of charity)
Florence Nightingale - CORRECT ANSWER -*The founder of modern nursing*
Born in 1820, began nurses' training in Germany at age 30
Tended to wounded British soldiers at Scutari Hospital in Turkey during the *Crimean War*
Reformed British Army Hospitals
Established the first training school for nurses in London.
Wrote a famous book in 1859 called *Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not*
Sairy Gamp - CORRECT ANSWER -A Dicken's character
Portrayed that hospitals were a place to die - patients were cared for by prostitutes, drunks, and convicts
Clara Barton - CORRECT ANSWER -Founded the Red Cross
Dorothea Dix - CORRECT ANSWER -Reformer who was a pioneer in the movement for better treatment of the
mentally ill
Mary Eliza Mahoney - CORRECT ANSWER -1st professionally educated African American nurse in the United
States
Isabel Hampton Robb - CORRECT ANSWER -Founded the National League for Nursing (NLN) and the American
Nurses Association (ANA).
Lillian Wald - CORRECT ANSWER -Nurse and social activist
Founded the Henry Street Settlement - The first public health nursing organization
One of the founding members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Margaret Sanger - CORRECT ANSWER -United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned
parenthood
Lavina Dock - CORRECT ANSWER -Part of the nursing education reform and the women's suffrage movement
Jessie Sleet Scales - CORRECT ANSWER -The 1st African American public health nurse
Established the Stillman House, a branch of the Henry Street Settlement
Mary Breckinridge - CORRECT ANSWER -Founder of the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS)
This service provided the first organized widwifery program in the United States
What was Florence Nightingale's affect on the British Barrack Hospital Reform? - CORRECT ANSWER -She
reduced the mortality rate in British hospitals during the Crimean war by providing food, cleanliness, sunlight, and caring
for the patients.
How have wars influenced the profession of nursing? - CORRECT ANSWER -It changed the image of nursing to
"heroes" and "angels", strong and noble.
It made people acknowledge the contribution of nursing and demonstrated the value of care.
WW2 represented the coming of age for __________ nurses. - CORRECT ANSWER -Colored
The _____________ _____________ War was the first war that nurses were asked to volunteer. - CORRECT
ANSWER -Spanish American
, Edith Cavell - CORRECT ANSWER -Executed in Germany for helping soldiers escape in WW1
The sexual revolution began in the ___________. - CORRECT ANSWER -1960's
"Hotlips Hoolihan"
MASH- Movie, TV
Nurse Ratched - CORRECT ANSWER -Battle Axe Nurse
The 1970s version of Sairy Gamp
Negative Contemporary Images of Nursing Today - CORRECT ANSWER -Bimbo- Sex Symbol
"Naughty nurse"
Examples of some images of nursing throughout the years- - CORRECT ANSWER -Angels of mercy
Handmaidens
Sex symbols
Bimbos
Battle Axes
Sadistic torturers
Social, Political, Economic Factors when it comes to the Image of Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER -Feminism
Women's movement
Consumer movement
Graying of America
Cultural diversity
Men in nursing
Violence
Technological advances
The three major concepts of nursing- - CORRECT ANSWER -1. Person/individual
2. Environment
3. Health
Concept of Nursing- Person/Individual - CORRECT ANSWER -An open system with numerous subsystems
(respiratory, gastrointestinal, neurological) that make up the whole person.
Unique + adaptable, influenced by genetics and the environment
Human needs (Maslow)
Homeostasis
Human Needs Theory- Maslow's Theory - CORRECT ANSWER -Human behavior is motivated by intrinsic needs:
Physiological needs -> safety needs -> social needs -> esteem needs -> self actualization
Adaptation - CORRECT ANSWER -Theory by Carl Rogers
A person's needs change as the person changes.
Explains why a person may be become anxious in a hospital setting
A system is- - CORRECT ANSWER -A set of interrelated parts that come together to form a whole that performs a
function
Components of systems - CORRECT ANSWER -*Input*- the raw material that enters a system and is transformed
by it. Ex- students
*Throughput*- consists of the processes a system uses to convert raw materials (input) into a form that can be used. Ex-
clinicals
*Output*- the end result or product of the system. Ex- graduates
*Evaluation*- measuring the success or failure of the output and the effectiveness of the system. Ex- NCLEX pass rates
*Feedback* the information given back into the system to determine whether the purpose, or end result, of the system has
been achieved.
Synergy - CORRECT ANSWER -Occurs when all various subsystems work together to achieve a result that is not
independently achievable.
