NURS 2300 EXAMS SCRIPT 2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Describe how public sees nurses:
Ways students and nurses can promote the profession of nursing: - ✔✔Sexualized,
tired, upset, caps from old uniforms
Campaigns (Johnson&Johnson, Truth about Nursing and Woodull - helpful)
- Some organizations told corporate office to change ads because of how they
misrepresented nurses
- speak out against negative images
- Be sensitive to it and speak up when necessary, even for a good advertisement
- Improve by 1 patient encounter at a time
- ANA set good standards
✔✔Describe how nursing has reacted to nursing shortages and how those affect
patients
Internal causes:
External causes:
Remedies: - ✔✔Shortages:
- Imbalances of # of nurses working & positions to fill (due to growth and aging of
population)
- faculty to teach students (due to dr/masters programs not preparing students to be
educators, and being hired to more lucrative positions)
- shortages more crucial in traditional setting (hospital)
- salary issues, long hours, increases responsibility for unlicensed workers, significant
responsibility with little authority
- changes in demand for nursing services, increased age population, greater degree of
illness of hospitalized individuals, public perceptions of nurses as a profession, ever
widening career options for women
create shorter RN programs
import nurses from other english speaking countries
traveling nurses for certain demographics (short periods of time)
✔✔Social and Demographic factors that influence the development of nursing -
✔✔Aging population - increased courses offered in gerontologic nursing to prep nurses
to care for elders
Diversity - white will be minority in 21st century
- distrust
, - nursing must change to meet requirements of ethnicity and races
- big challenge
Technology - nurses must be very intentional in providing compassionate, personal care
with the use of my technology taking place in other areas of care
✔✔Florence Nightingale
- Grew up in -
- Women brought -
- When she was 30 -
- Heard about -
- Florence also -
- She founded -
- Most famous publishing -
- Stated - - ✔✔- aristocratic social sphere
- care to the sick and poor (she went with her mother on some visits)
- she went against her parents and joined nurses training program in Germany for 3
years
- conditions in Turkey during Crimean War and took 38 nurses where they organized,
cleaned and provided care
- took data of morbidity and mortality and used it to argue case for reform of entire
medical system
- First training school at St. Thomas hospital in London in 1860 which was the model for
nursing education
- Notes on Nursing
- '"mastering a unique body of knowledge was required for professional nursing"
✔✔Mary Seacole
- Race? and -
- Made significant contributions to -
- Funded -
- Expert on - - ✔✔Jamaican and businesswoman (greatest black briton in 2003)
- health of soldiers in crimean war (didn't work with nightingale, she was rejected
2x)(Was it possible American Prejudices against color had root in this?)
- her own travel to crimea and established hotel for injured soldiers and visited
battlefield
- Cholera b/c of outbreak in Panama
✔✔Clara Barton
- Biggest achievement -
- Growing up she -
- Work? -
- Which war and what did she do? -
- To get rest she went to -
- Got government to - - ✔✔Founder of American Red Cross
- took care of brother at a young age
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Describe how public sees nurses:
Ways students and nurses can promote the profession of nursing: - ✔✔Sexualized,
tired, upset, caps from old uniforms
Campaigns (Johnson&Johnson, Truth about Nursing and Woodull - helpful)
- Some organizations told corporate office to change ads because of how they
misrepresented nurses
- speak out against negative images
- Be sensitive to it and speak up when necessary, even for a good advertisement
- Improve by 1 patient encounter at a time
- ANA set good standards
✔✔Describe how nursing has reacted to nursing shortages and how those affect
patients
Internal causes:
External causes:
Remedies: - ✔✔Shortages:
- Imbalances of # of nurses working & positions to fill (due to growth and aging of
population)
- faculty to teach students (due to dr/masters programs not preparing students to be
educators, and being hired to more lucrative positions)
- shortages more crucial in traditional setting (hospital)
- salary issues, long hours, increases responsibility for unlicensed workers, significant
responsibility with little authority
- changes in demand for nursing services, increased age population, greater degree of
illness of hospitalized individuals, public perceptions of nurses as a profession, ever
widening career options for women
create shorter RN programs
import nurses from other english speaking countries
traveling nurses for certain demographics (short periods of time)
✔✔Social and Demographic factors that influence the development of nursing -
✔✔Aging population - increased courses offered in gerontologic nursing to prep nurses
to care for elders
Diversity - white will be minority in 21st century
- distrust
, - nursing must change to meet requirements of ethnicity and races
- big challenge
Technology - nurses must be very intentional in providing compassionate, personal care
with the use of my technology taking place in other areas of care
✔✔Florence Nightingale
- Grew up in -
- Women brought -
- When she was 30 -
- Heard about -
- Florence also -
- She founded -
- Most famous publishing -
- Stated - - ✔✔- aristocratic social sphere
- care to the sick and poor (she went with her mother on some visits)
- she went against her parents and joined nurses training program in Germany for 3
years
- conditions in Turkey during Crimean War and took 38 nurses where they organized,
cleaned and provided care
- took data of morbidity and mortality and used it to argue case for reform of entire
medical system
- First training school at St. Thomas hospital in London in 1860 which was the model for
nursing education
- Notes on Nursing
- '"mastering a unique body of knowledge was required for professional nursing"
✔✔Mary Seacole
- Race? and -
- Made significant contributions to -
- Funded -
- Expert on - - ✔✔Jamaican and businesswoman (greatest black briton in 2003)
- health of soldiers in crimean war (didn't work with nightingale, she was rejected
2x)(Was it possible American Prejudices against color had root in this?)
- her own travel to crimea and established hotel for injured soldiers and visited
battlefield
- Cholera b/c of outbreak in Panama
✔✔Clara Barton
- Biggest achievement -
- Growing up she -
- Work? -
- Which war and what did she do? -
- To get rest she went to -
- Got government to - - ✔✔Founder of American Red Cross
- took care of brother at a young age
