NURB 3030 EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE | COMPREHENSIVE EXAM REVIEW, PRACTICE QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS 2026/2027
what are the characteristics of a profession? - correct answer ✔✔- High intellectual level
- High level of individual responsibility and accountability
- Specialized body of knowledge
How were accountability and autonomy fostered in the profession of nursing? - correct answer
✔✔- Nurses are common targets for malpractice suits; Florence Nightingale began the
separation of education for nurses from that for doctors.
- There is a role of shifting social norms.
- Nurses still generally suffer from a subservient image.
- Some progress has been made in some areas, such as nurse practitioners
How can nurses attain/ maintain power over practice (empowerment)? - correct answer ✔✔•
Social structure of the work setting
• Relationships
• Group effort or environmental change or the individual nurse's own efforts at self-growth and
actualization
o Ability or capacity to exert influence over another person or group
o Individual power usually is in a state of flux. - correct answer ✔✔the nature of power
o depends on close personal relationships - correct answer ✔✔referent power
o derives from the amount of knowledge, skill, or expertise that an individual or group has -
correct answer ✔✔expert power
, o depends on the ability of one person to grant another some type of reward for specific
behaviors or changes in behavior - correct answer ✔✔power of reward
o comes from the ability to reprimand, withhold rewards, and threaten punishment. - correct
answer ✔✔- Coercive Power
o depends on a legislative or legal act that gives the individual or organization a right to make
decisions that he or she might not otherwise have the authority to make. - correct answer
✔✔legitimate power
o Broader context than individual client care
o Underlying source for many other sources of power
o Depends on professional organizations and politics - correct answer ✔✔collective power
Which wars helped to shape what nursing is today and how? - correct answer ✔✔- The Civil
War: more death and injury than any war in U. .S. history
- Origin of Army Nurse Corps nurses, Navy Nurses, and the American Red Cross
- After 1914, nurses' roles rapidly expanded due to demand.
- Red Cross began a training program for nurse's aides.
- W W II created highly positive image for nurses.
- After the war, vacancies filled with graduates of new programs (L P N's, L V N's)
- The concept of team nursing widely accepted
what are some concepts of early nursing? - correct answer ✔✔- Some connections with driving
out demons
- Some concept of preventive health care and the importance of good hygiene
Physicians often refused to come in contact with blood and infectious body secretions
ANSWERS 2026/2027
what are the characteristics of a profession? - correct answer ✔✔- High intellectual level
- High level of individual responsibility and accountability
- Specialized body of knowledge
How were accountability and autonomy fostered in the profession of nursing? - correct answer
✔✔- Nurses are common targets for malpractice suits; Florence Nightingale began the
separation of education for nurses from that for doctors.
- There is a role of shifting social norms.
- Nurses still generally suffer from a subservient image.
- Some progress has been made in some areas, such as nurse practitioners
How can nurses attain/ maintain power over practice (empowerment)? - correct answer ✔✔•
Social structure of the work setting
• Relationships
• Group effort or environmental change or the individual nurse's own efforts at self-growth and
actualization
o Ability or capacity to exert influence over another person or group
o Individual power usually is in a state of flux. - correct answer ✔✔the nature of power
o depends on close personal relationships - correct answer ✔✔referent power
o derives from the amount of knowledge, skill, or expertise that an individual or group has -
correct answer ✔✔expert power
, o depends on the ability of one person to grant another some type of reward for specific
behaviors or changes in behavior - correct answer ✔✔power of reward
o comes from the ability to reprimand, withhold rewards, and threaten punishment. - correct
answer ✔✔- Coercive Power
o depends on a legislative or legal act that gives the individual or organization a right to make
decisions that he or she might not otherwise have the authority to make. - correct answer
✔✔legitimate power
o Broader context than individual client care
o Underlying source for many other sources of power
o Depends on professional organizations and politics - correct answer ✔✔collective power
Which wars helped to shape what nursing is today and how? - correct answer ✔✔- The Civil
War: more death and injury than any war in U. .S. history
- Origin of Army Nurse Corps nurses, Navy Nurses, and the American Red Cross
- After 1914, nurses' roles rapidly expanded due to demand.
- Red Cross began a training program for nurse's aides.
- W W II created highly positive image for nurses.
- After the war, vacancies filled with graduates of new programs (L P N's, L V N's)
- The concept of team nursing widely accepted
what are some concepts of early nursing? - correct answer ✔✔- Some connections with driving
out demons
- Some concept of preventive health care and the importance of good hygiene
Physicians often refused to come in contact with blood and infectious body secretions
