NUR 301 EXAM #1 2026/2027 – COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE
QUESTIONS & EXAM REVIEW
What are the four nursing aims? - ✔✔1. Promote health
2. Prevent illness
3. Restore health
4. facilitate coping with disability or death
What are the 7 criteria for nusing profession? (be able to ID examples of how nursing schieves the
criteria discussed in class- select all that apply) - ✔✔1. Well defined body of specific and unique
knowledge
2. Strong service or orientation
3. recognized authority by a professional group
4. code of ethics
5. professional organization that sets standards
6. ongoing research
7. autonomy and self regulation
Know the general differences between ADN and BSN educational programs in terms of: nursing practive,
evidence-based practice, informatics, public health/community nursing-
Which program has more content in each of these areas? - ✔✔-BSN
-emphasize nursing research and informatics
-more exposure to community/public health content
-Include leadership/sysyems-based improvement components (both leading at bedside & management
and EBP)
-most hospitals pefer/requite BSN for newly graduated nurses
-80% of RNs in hospitals must have BSN degree my 2020
What exam do registered nurses take to obtain their license? What oversight body manages this exam? -
✔✔Test standards same: NCLEX-RN exam for diploma, ADN, & BSN managed by the National Council for
State Boards of Nursing [NCSBN])
Baptist Tabernacle Infirmary Training school for Christian Nurses what founded in what year? - ✔✔1902
Mercer University was founded under the leadership of Jesse Mercer, prominent Baptist from Georgia, in
what year? - ✔✔1833
What was the first "modern school of nursing?" when was it founded and by whom? - ✔✔St. Thomas
Hospital in London, founded in 1860 by Florence Nightingale
Who, although not traied as a nurse, served as a nurse during the American Civil War, and founded the
American Red Cross, and was known as the "Angel of the Battlefield?" - ✔✔Clara Barton
Who was the first African American Nurse to graduate from a formal school of nursing in 1879 and
advocated to eliminate discrimination in the nursing field? - ✔✔Mary Eliza Mahoney
, Which influential nursing figure founded the Henry Street Settlement house, which still operates as a
nonprofit social organization offering health and wellness services in New York's lower east side? -
✔✔Lillian Wald (along with her friend Mary Brewster)
What influential nursing leader founded the Frontier Nursing Service in 1925 which formalized? -
✔✔Mary Brekinridge
What prominent nurse wrote a book entitled "Materia Medica for Nurses" about drugs and solutions,
was assistant superintendent of Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and devoted most of her life to
advancing the right of women to vote? - ✔✔Lavinia Lloyd Dock
What barriers slowed nursing's development into a profession in the early 20th century? - ✔✔-lack of
educational standards, the male dominance in health care, and the pervading Victorian belief that
women were subordinate to men combined to contribute to several decades of slow progress toward
professionalism in nursing.
Name the four nursing metaparadigms or four common concepts in nursing theory and which is the
most important? - ✔✔-people (clients- most important)
-environment
-health
-nurse (nursing practice)
What are the three sources of nursing knowledge? - ✔✔-traditional knowledge
-authoritative knowledge
-scientific knowledge
What is tradtional knowledge? - ✔✔Knowledge passed from generation to generation and is accepted
as truth because "we've always done it that way." Ex: change bed linens daily, Florence Nightingale-
freash air & light for hospitalized soilders
What is authoriatative knowledge? - ✔✔Presented by a percieved expert and accepted as truth based
on beliefs about the competency of the expert. ex: preceptor tells nursing student- on this type of
peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC), you should NEVER flush witha syrninge smaler than 10cc
because of the pressure exerted is too high and might damage the line.
What is scientific knowledge? - ✔✔Knowledge obtained through scientific method and systematic
investigation. ex: silver is a scientifically proven antimicrobial agent. Research supports silver
impregnanted would dressings are effective in preventing infections for certain types of wounds with
minimal adverse effects.
What is theory? - ✔✔Theory is a gorup of concepts that describe a pattern of reality.
Ex: Albert Bandura- self efficacy theory- perceived competence of an individual affects the individuals
motivation and bahavior in achieving a goal.
A theory are the "assumptions, concepts, definiton and or propostions that provide a
cohesive...explanation of how a phenomenon is thought to work."
QUESTIONS & EXAM REVIEW
What are the four nursing aims? - ✔✔1. Promote health
2. Prevent illness
3. Restore health
4. facilitate coping with disability or death
What are the 7 criteria for nusing profession? (be able to ID examples of how nursing schieves the
criteria discussed in class- select all that apply) - ✔✔1. Well defined body of specific and unique
knowledge
2. Strong service or orientation
3. recognized authority by a professional group
4. code of ethics
5. professional organization that sets standards
6. ongoing research
7. autonomy and self regulation
Know the general differences between ADN and BSN educational programs in terms of: nursing practive,
evidence-based practice, informatics, public health/community nursing-
Which program has more content in each of these areas? - ✔✔-BSN
-emphasize nursing research and informatics
-more exposure to community/public health content
-Include leadership/sysyems-based improvement components (both leading at bedside & management
and EBP)
-most hospitals pefer/requite BSN for newly graduated nurses
-80% of RNs in hospitals must have BSN degree my 2020
What exam do registered nurses take to obtain their license? What oversight body manages this exam? -
✔✔Test standards same: NCLEX-RN exam for diploma, ADN, & BSN managed by the National Council for
State Boards of Nursing [NCSBN])
Baptist Tabernacle Infirmary Training school for Christian Nurses what founded in what year? - ✔✔1902
Mercer University was founded under the leadership of Jesse Mercer, prominent Baptist from Georgia, in
what year? - ✔✔1833
What was the first "modern school of nursing?" when was it founded and by whom? - ✔✔St. Thomas
Hospital in London, founded in 1860 by Florence Nightingale
Who, although not traied as a nurse, served as a nurse during the American Civil War, and founded the
American Red Cross, and was known as the "Angel of the Battlefield?" - ✔✔Clara Barton
Who was the first African American Nurse to graduate from a formal school of nursing in 1879 and
advocated to eliminate discrimination in the nursing field? - ✔✔Mary Eliza Mahoney
, Which influential nursing figure founded the Henry Street Settlement house, which still operates as a
nonprofit social organization offering health and wellness services in New York's lower east side? -
✔✔Lillian Wald (along with her friend Mary Brewster)
What influential nursing leader founded the Frontier Nursing Service in 1925 which formalized? -
✔✔Mary Brekinridge
What prominent nurse wrote a book entitled "Materia Medica for Nurses" about drugs and solutions,
was assistant superintendent of Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and devoted most of her life to
advancing the right of women to vote? - ✔✔Lavinia Lloyd Dock
What barriers slowed nursing's development into a profession in the early 20th century? - ✔✔-lack of
educational standards, the male dominance in health care, and the pervading Victorian belief that
women were subordinate to men combined to contribute to several decades of slow progress toward
professionalism in nursing.
Name the four nursing metaparadigms or four common concepts in nursing theory and which is the
most important? - ✔✔-people (clients- most important)
-environment
-health
-nurse (nursing practice)
What are the three sources of nursing knowledge? - ✔✔-traditional knowledge
-authoritative knowledge
-scientific knowledge
What is tradtional knowledge? - ✔✔Knowledge passed from generation to generation and is accepted
as truth because "we've always done it that way." Ex: change bed linens daily, Florence Nightingale-
freash air & light for hospitalized soilders
What is authoriatative knowledge? - ✔✔Presented by a percieved expert and accepted as truth based
on beliefs about the competency of the expert. ex: preceptor tells nursing student- on this type of
peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC), you should NEVER flush witha syrninge smaler than 10cc
because of the pressure exerted is too high and might damage the line.
What is scientific knowledge? - ✔✔Knowledge obtained through scientific method and systematic
investigation. ex: silver is a scientifically proven antimicrobial agent. Research supports silver
impregnanted would dressings are effective in preventing infections for certain types of wounds with
minimal adverse effects.
What is theory? - ✔✔Theory is a gorup of concepts that describe a pattern of reality.
Ex: Albert Bandura- self efficacy theory- perceived competence of an individual affects the individuals
motivation and bahavior in achieving a goal.
A theory are the "assumptions, concepts, definiton and or propostions that provide a
cohesive...explanation of how a phenomenon is thought to work."
