NUR 1290 FINAL EXAM | COMPREHENSIVE NURSING STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2026/2027
What Are the Attributes of Being a "Good" Nurse? - ANS ✔✔-caring (show you genuinely care)
-communication skills (speak and listen well)
-emotional stability
-empathy
-problem-solving skills
-attention to detail
4 Pillars of Molloy - ANS ✔✔-studies
-community (participate)
-spirituality (help pt connect w higher being)
-service
Molloy's Humanistic Framework for Nursing - ANS ✔✔-we believe that valuing the individual in the
context of humanity, environment, and health gives meaning to humanistic nursing practice
Humanistic Framework of Nursing - ANS ✔✔-valuing
-humanity
-health
-environment
valuing - ANS ✔✔-holding in high esteem the inherent worth and dignity of all individuals
humanity - ANS ✔✔-unique human being, functioning as an integrated whole, reflecting bio-psycho-
socio-cultural dimensions
environment - ANS ✔✔-sum total of all internal/external dimensions that influence human beings
health - ANS ✔✔- a dynamic state of bio-psycho-socio-cultural well being
nursing - ANS ✔✔-a science and an art which focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of human
responses
Early Civilization of Nursing - ANS ✔✔-Egyptian physicians are believed to have specialized in certain
diseases
-midwives assisted with childbirth = first recorded nurses
Ancient Greece and Nursing - ANS ✔✔-Apollo = god of healing
-400 BC = Hippocrates believed disease had natural, not magical causes
diagnosis - ANS ✔✔-identifying disease scientifically
prognosis - ANS ✔✔-predicting possible outcomes
cure - ANS ✔✔-restoration of health
, Roman Empire and Nursing - ANS ✔✔-influenced by Egyptians and Greeks
-known for advances in public health
Ancient India and Nursing - ANS ✔✔-male nurses needed 4 qualifications:
1. knowledge of drugs for administration
2. cleverness
3. devotedness to pt
4. purity of mind and body
Christianity and Nursing - ANS ✔✔-nursing had a more formal/defined role
-led by belief that love and caring for others is most important
-women: visit sick pts
-men: nursing care and bury dead
-nursing became respected vocation
Middle Ages and Nursing - ANS ✔✔-more hospitals
-nurses delivered custodial care and depended on physicians for direction
-nurse midwifery flourished
Crusades and Nursing - ANS ✔✔-hospitals developed on battlefield
-Knight Hospitaliers = bright red cross
-nursing became a female-dominated proffession encouraged by Catholic Church
15th-19th Century and Nursing - ANS ✔✔-extensive population growth in cities, lack of hygiene and
sanitation, increase in poverty = serious health problem
-closure of monasteries and convents = shortage of people to care for sick
-women who committed crimes were able to become nurses instead of serving sentences
Renaissance and Nursing - ANS ✔✔-dark ages of nursing
-average family dreaded hospitals
-limited number of nurses
-limited women's freedom
-doctors did most of nurses jobs
-nurses did majority of cleaning, laundry, and scrubbing
-hospitals were source of epidemics
Nursing Caps - ANS ✔✔-keep hair neat
-caps and aprons = respectability, cleanliness, servitude
Nursing Uniforms - ANS ✔✔-symbolic of servant
-sign of respectability
Nursing Pins - ANS ✔✔-purpose: worn by those who have graduated from nursing school programs
Florence Nightingale - ANS ✔✔-born in 1820 to wealthy family
-determined to become a nurse because she believed she was "called by God to help others and improve
well-being of mankind"
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2026/2027
What Are the Attributes of Being a "Good" Nurse? - ANS ✔✔-caring (show you genuinely care)
-communication skills (speak and listen well)
-emotional stability
-empathy
-problem-solving skills
-attention to detail
4 Pillars of Molloy - ANS ✔✔-studies
-community (participate)
-spirituality (help pt connect w higher being)
-service
Molloy's Humanistic Framework for Nursing - ANS ✔✔-we believe that valuing the individual in the
context of humanity, environment, and health gives meaning to humanistic nursing practice
Humanistic Framework of Nursing - ANS ✔✔-valuing
-humanity
-health
-environment
valuing - ANS ✔✔-holding in high esteem the inherent worth and dignity of all individuals
humanity - ANS ✔✔-unique human being, functioning as an integrated whole, reflecting bio-psycho-
socio-cultural dimensions
environment - ANS ✔✔-sum total of all internal/external dimensions that influence human beings
health - ANS ✔✔- a dynamic state of bio-psycho-socio-cultural well being
nursing - ANS ✔✔-a science and an art which focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of human
responses
Early Civilization of Nursing - ANS ✔✔-Egyptian physicians are believed to have specialized in certain
diseases
-midwives assisted with childbirth = first recorded nurses
Ancient Greece and Nursing - ANS ✔✔-Apollo = god of healing
-400 BC = Hippocrates believed disease had natural, not magical causes
diagnosis - ANS ✔✔-identifying disease scientifically
prognosis - ANS ✔✔-predicting possible outcomes
cure - ANS ✔✔-restoration of health
, Roman Empire and Nursing - ANS ✔✔-influenced by Egyptians and Greeks
-known for advances in public health
Ancient India and Nursing - ANS ✔✔-male nurses needed 4 qualifications:
1. knowledge of drugs for administration
2. cleverness
3. devotedness to pt
4. purity of mind and body
Christianity and Nursing - ANS ✔✔-nursing had a more formal/defined role
-led by belief that love and caring for others is most important
-women: visit sick pts
-men: nursing care and bury dead
-nursing became respected vocation
Middle Ages and Nursing - ANS ✔✔-more hospitals
-nurses delivered custodial care and depended on physicians for direction
-nurse midwifery flourished
Crusades and Nursing - ANS ✔✔-hospitals developed on battlefield
-Knight Hospitaliers = bright red cross
-nursing became a female-dominated proffession encouraged by Catholic Church
15th-19th Century and Nursing - ANS ✔✔-extensive population growth in cities, lack of hygiene and
sanitation, increase in poverty = serious health problem
-closure of monasteries and convents = shortage of people to care for sick
-women who committed crimes were able to become nurses instead of serving sentences
Renaissance and Nursing - ANS ✔✔-dark ages of nursing
-average family dreaded hospitals
-limited number of nurses
-limited women's freedom
-doctors did most of nurses jobs
-nurses did majority of cleaning, laundry, and scrubbing
-hospitals were source of epidemics
Nursing Caps - ANS ✔✔-keep hair neat
-caps and aprons = respectability, cleanliness, servitude
Nursing Uniforms - ANS ✔✔-symbolic of servant
-sign of respectability
Nursing Pins - ANS ✔✔-purpose: worn by those who have graduated from nursing school programs
Florence Nightingale - ANS ✔✔-born in 1820 to wealthy family
-determined to become a nurse because she believed she was "called by God to help others and improve
well-being of mankind"
