NUR 301 FINAL EXAM 2026/2027 – COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE
QUESTIONS & EXAM REVIEW
Year when Mercer University was founded - correct answer ✔✔1833
Year when nursing began to emerge as an organized profession - correct answer ✔✔1860
Year in which the Baptist Tabernacle Infirmary Training School for Christian Nurses-(forerunner of GBCN)
was founded - correct answer ✔✔1902
Year when Georgia Baptist College of Nursing merged with Mercer University - correct answer ✔✔2001
Which influential nursing figure founded the Henry Street Settlement house, which still operates as a
non-profit social organization offering health and wellness services in New York's lower east side? -
correct answer ✔✔Lillian Wald
Who graduated from the New England Hospital for Women & Children's School of nursing in 1879 and
was the first African-American nurse trained in the United States? - correct answer ✔✔Mary Eliza
Mahoney
Which historical figure was known as the "Angel of the Battlefield" for her work during the Civil War,
founded the American Red Cross? - correct answer ✔✔Clara Barton
Who was named the first President and Dean of the Georgia Baptist College of Nursing in 1989? - correct
answer ✔✔Susan Sweat Gunby
What influential nursing leader founded the Frontier Nursing Service in 1925 which formalized the role
of nurse midwives in the United States and vastly improved maternal and infant outcomes? - correct
answer ✔✔Mary Breckinridge
Which of the following historical nursing figures graduated from the first class of students at the Johns
Hopkins School of Nursing, is considered the first professor of nursing, and taught at Columbia University
Teachers' College? - correct answer ✔✔Mary Adelaide Nutting
Which of the following influential nursing figures established the first training school for nurses in 1860,
which marks the beginning of nursing as a profession? - correct answer ✔✔Florence Nightingale
What prominent nursing wrote a book entitled Materia Medica for Nurses about drugs and solutions,
was assistant superintendent of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and devoted most of her life to
advancing the right of women to vote? - correct answer ✔✔Lavinia Lloyd Dock
Enhanced model of primary care that provides whole-person, accessible, patient-centered care with an
emphasis on preventive care (incentives for annual physicals, etc.) definition - correct answer
✔✔Medical home
, care provided for caregiver of housebound ill, disabled, or older patients, purpose is to give the primary
caregiver some time away from the responsibilities of day to day care. - correct answer ✔✔Respite Care
holistic approach to caring for the patient and family experiencing an end-of-life event (in a designated
facility or at home); less than 6 months life expectancy - correct answer ✔✔Hospice
Prevent suffering and maximize quality of life for any seriously ill patient; can be provided in any setting -
correct answer ✔✔Palliative Care
a nurse is responsible for planning, organizing, and performing all care (personal hygiene, medications,
treatments, emotional support, and education) for an assigned group of patients during assigned shift. -
correct answer ✔✔Total patient care
a nurse manager directs nursing team members to complete specific tasks within their scope of practice.
- correct answer ✔✔Functional nursing
a direct care RN leads a team of nurses and patient care assistants and delegates work. - correct answer
✔✔Team nursing
one RN is responsible for all of the nursing care planning for specific patients. - correct answer
✔✔Primary nursing
What are the four main U. S. government financed health care programs? - correct answer
✔✔Medicare, Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Veteran's Health Administration
(VHA)
What spending contributes most to the cost of health care in the United States? - correct answer
✔✔Hospital care-31%
Physician/clinical services-20%
Prescriptions-10%
The correct APA section header for the page where you list the sources of evidence you cited in the body
of your paper is: - correct answer ✔✔References
In an APA References list, the correct capitalization and format for a journal article title is - correct
answer ✔✔Preparing New Graduates for Interprofessional Teamwork: Effectiveness of a Nurse
Residency Program
The correct APA format for an in-text citation is - correct answer ✔✔Hopkins and Bromley (2016)
asserted managers were less satisfied than experienced nurses with the ability of new graduate nurses
to communicate with the inter-professional team
The correct format for a running head on the first page of an APA document is - correct answer
✔✔Running head: ABBREVIATED TITLE
The correct format for a running head starting on the second page of an APA document through the end
is - correct answer ✔✔Abbreviated Title
QUESTIONS & EXAM REVIEW
Year when Mercer University was founded - correct answer ✔✔1833
Year when nursing began to emerge as an organized profession - correct answer ✔✔1860
Year in which the Baptist Tabernacle Infirmary Training School for Christian Nurses-(forerunner of GBCN)
was founded - correct answer ✔✔1902
Year when Georgia Baptist College of Nursing merged with Mercer University - correct answer ✔✔2001
Which influential nursing figure founded the Henry Street Settlement house, which still operates as a
non-profit social organization offering health and wellness services in New York's lower east side? -
correct answer ✔✔Lillian Wald
Who graduated from the New England Hospital for Women & Children's School of nursing in 1879 and
was the first African-American nurse trained in the United States? - correct answer ✔✔Mary Eliza
Mahoney
Which historical figure was known as the "Angel of the Battlefield" for her work during the Civil War,
founded the American Red Cross? - correct answer ✔✔Clara Barton
Who was named the first President and Dean of the Georgia Baptist College of Nursing in 1989? - correct
answer ✔✔Susan Sweat Gunby
What influential nursing leader founded the Frontier Nursing Service in 1925 which formalized the role
of nurse midwives in the United States and vastly improved maternal and infant outcomes? - correct
answer ✔✔Mary Breckinridge
Which of the following historical nursing figures graduated from the first class of students at the Johns
Hopkins School of Nursing, is considered the first professor of nursing, and taught at Columbia University
Teachers' College? - correct answer ✔✔Mary Adelaide Nutting
Which of the following influential nursing figures established the first training school for nurses in 1860,
which marks the beginning of nursing as a profession? - correct answer ✔✔Florence Nightingale
What prominent nursing wrote a book entitled Materia Medica for Nurses about drugs and solutions,
was assistant superintendent of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and devoted most of her life to
advancing the right of women to vote? - correct answer ✔✔Lavinia Lloyd Dock
Enhanced model of primary care that provides whole-person, accessible, patient-centered care with an
emphasis on preventive care (incentives for annual physicals, etc.) definition - correct answer
✔✔Medical home
, care provided for caregiver of housebound ill, disabled, or older patients, purpose is to give the primary
caregiver some time away from the responsibilities of day to day care. - correct answer ✔✔Respite Care
holistic approach to caring for the patient and family experiencing an end-of-life event (in a designated
facility or at home); less than 6 months life expectancy - correct answer ✔✔Hospice
Prevent suffering and maximize quality of life for any seriously ill patient; can be provided in any setting -
correct answer ✔✔Palliative Care
a nurse is responsible for planning, organizing, and performing all care (personal hygiene, medications,
treatments, emotional support, and education) for an assigned group of patients during assigned shift. -
correct answer ✔✔Total patient care
a nurse manager directs nursing team members to complete specific tasks within their scope of practice.
- correct answer ✔✔Functional nursing
a direct care RN leads a team of nurses and patient care assistants and delegates work. - correct answer
✔✔Team nursing
one RN is responsible for all of the nursing care planning for specific patients. - correct answer
✔✔Primary nursing
What are the four main U. S. government financed health care programs? - correct answer
✔✔Medicare, Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Veteran's Health Administration
(VHA)
What spending contributes most to the cost of health care in the United States? - correct answer
✔✔Hospital care-31%
Physician/clinical services-20%
Prescriptions-10%
The correct APA section header for the page where you list the sources of evidence you cited in the body
of your paper is: - correct answer ✔✔References
In an APA References list, the correct capitalization and format for a journal article title is - correct
answer ✔✔Preparing New Graduates for Interprofessional Teamwork: Effectiveness of a Nurse
Residency Program
The correct APA format for an in-text citation is - correct answer ✔✔Hopkins and Bromley (2016)
asserted managers were less satisfied than experienced nurses with the ability of new graduate nurses
to communicate with the inter-professional team
The correct format for a running head on the first page of an APA document is - correct answer
✔✔Running head: ABBREVIATED TITLE
The correct format for a running head starting on the second page of an APA document through the end
is - correct answer ✔✔Abbreviated Title
