Nursing Leadership, Management, and
Professional Practice for LPN and LVN
7th Edition Tamara R. Dahlkemper – Test
Bank with Practice Questions and
Answers
SECTION 1: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE & CURRENT TRENDS
Question 1: The nursing student predominantly uses knowledge about the history
of nursing for which purpose?
A) To prevent making medication errors in practice
B) To understand the professional choices open to the student
C) To determine which geographical area is the best place to practice
D) To reduce the cost of delivering quality health care
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Understanding nursing history helps the nurse to better recognize the many
choices available when choosing his or her own future path. History provides context for
current professional roles and opportunities. It does not prevent medication errors,
determine geographical preference, or reduce healthcare costs .
,Question 2: The nurse is working in an underdeveloped country and observes the
natives lighting ritual fires and pounding on primitive drums around the sick
person to promote recovery. The nurse interprets this behavior as indicating the
natives believe illness results from which factor?
A) Pathogens and genetics
B) Evil spirits
C) Tides and planets
D) Plants and animals
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: A belief that disease was caused by evil spirits would result in lighting fires or
candles and making loud noises to try to ward off the spirits. This reflects ancient
healing practices where illness was attributed to supernatural forces, predating the germ
theory of disease .
Question 3: Who is credited with making a written record of health-care practices
and removing the mythical aspect of health care?
A) Hammurabi
B) Florence Nightingale
C) Hippocrates
D) Apollo
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Hippocrates wrote the first medical textbook, outlining current health-care
practices, and removed the mythical belief that Apollo was responsible for health.
Hammurabi wrote a code of laws to protect patients, and Florence Nightingale
introduced modern nursing during the Crimean War .
Question 4: Who served as the first public health nurses, caring for the sick and the
poor?
A) The Presbyterian Church
B) Salerno
, C) Jewish scholars
D) Convent deaconesses
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Deaconesses from local convents acted as the first public health nurses,
providing care for the sick and the poor based on the Christian belief in the importance
of caring for one another. This established the early foundation for community health
nursing .
Question 5: Which is a crucial issue the nurse working in the late industrialization
era would need to address to promote health?
A) Reducing the spread of infection
B) Reducing sedentary lifestyle
C) Teaching proper use of medications
D) Teaching use of car seats
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Many deaths resulted from communicable diseases and lack of cleanliness in
hospitals during the late industrialization era, so the nurse's priority concern with health
promotion would be reducing the spread of infection. Florence Nightingale's sanitation
reforms directly addressed this issue .
Question 6: What types of skills would a nursing student learn while attending the
Kaiserworth Deaconess Institution in 1836?
A) Administering immunizations
B) Assisting in surgery
C) Washing and changing bed linens
D) Developing a plan of care
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: The Kaiserworth Deaconess Institution focused on practical nursing skills
including washing and changing bed linens, caring for the sick, and maintaining a clean
environment. This institution was where Florence Nightingale received her initial nursing
training .
Professional Practice for LPN and LVN
7th Edition Tamara R. Dahlkemper – Test
Bank with Practice Questions and
Answers
SECTION 1: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE & CURRENT TRENDS
Question 1: The nursing student predominantly uses knowledge about the history
of nursing for which purpose?
A) To prevent making medication errors in practice
B) To understand the professional choices open to the student
C) To determine which geographical area is the best place to practice
D) To reduce the cost of delivering quality health care
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Understanding nursing history helps the nurse to better recognize the many
choices available when choosing his or her own future path. History provides context for
current professional roles and opportunities. It does not prevent medication errors,
determine geographical preference, or reduce healthcare costs .
,Question 2: The nurse is working in an underdeveloped country and observes the
natives lighting ritual fires and pounding on primitive drums around the sick
person to promote recovery. The nurse interprets this behavior as indicating the
natives believe illness results from which factor?
A) Pathogens and genetics
B) Evil spirits
C) Tides and planets
D) Plants and animals
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: A belief that disease was caused by evil spirits would result in lighting fires or
candles and making loud noises to try to ward off the spirits. This reflects ancient
healing practices where illness was attributed to supernatural forces, predating the germ
theory of disease .
Question 3: Who is credited with making a written record of health-care practices
and removing the mythical aspect of health care?
A) Hammurabi
B) Florence Nightingale
C) Hippocrates
D) Apollo
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Hippocrates wrote the first medical textbook, outlining current health-care
practices, and removed the mythical belief that Apollo was responsible for health.
Hammurabi wrote a code of laws to protect patients, and Florence Nightingale
introduced modern nursing during the Crimean War .
Question 4: Who served as the first public health nurses, caring for the sick and the
poor?
A) The Presbyterian Church
B) Salerno
, C) Jewish scholars
D) Convent deaconesses
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Deaconesses from local convents acted as the first public health nurses,
providing care for the sick and the poor based on the Christian belief in the importance
of caring for one another. This established the early foundation for community health
nursing .
Question 5: Which is a crucial issue the nurse working in the late industrialization
era would need to address to promote health?
A) Reducing the spread of infection
B) Reducing sedentary lifestyle
C) Teaching proper use of medications
D) Teaching use of car seats
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Many deaths resulted from communicable diseases and lack of cleanliness in
hospitals during the late industrialization era, so the nurse's priority concern with health
promotion would be reducing the spread of infection. Florence Nightingale's sanitation
reforms directly addressed this issue .
Question 6: What types of skills would a nursing student learn while attending the
Kaiserworth Deaconess Institution in 1836?
A) Administering immunizations
B) Assisting in surgery
C) Washing and changing bed linens
D) Developing a plan of care
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: The Kaiserworth Deaconess Institution focused on practical nursing skills
including washing and changing bed linens, caring for the sick, and maintaining a clean
environment. This institution was where Florence Nightingale received her initial nursing
training .
