BSNC 1020 MODULE 1-5 FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Professionalism -
correct answer ✅Behaviors, skills, and attributes required or
expected of members of a profession.
- Conduct, aims or qualities that characterize or make up a
profession or professional.
-Requires specialized knowledge, accountability, autonomy, inquiry,
collegiality, collaboration, innovation & ethics and values
How do nurses display professionalism? -
correct answer ✅Provide quality care to patients thru:
- Commitment to profession led regulation
- Professional ethics
- Personal health & fitness to practice
- Legal & ethical dimensions to nursing
What year did nursing start in Canada? -
correct answer ✅1639 - Hotel Dieu Quebec
Florence Nightingale -
correct answer ✅- founder of modern nursing and a reformer of
hospital sanitation methods
,BSNC 1020 MODULE 1-5 FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What did Florence Nightingale do? -
correct answer ✅- Insisted on better hygiene in field hospitals and
founded the first school of nursing
- Crimean war: reduced mortality from
42-2.2%.Hand-washing/nature working on patient's body was her
mainstay. First health statistician (collected & analyzed health data).
- improved standards of nursing care in the mid-nineteenth century
- known for reducing mortality during the Crimean war through
improved sanitation measures
- triggered a shift in public attitudes towards the acceptability of
women doing nursing outside of the home
Florence Nightingale and Crimean War -
correct answer ✅- She went to the war and helped turn the
mortality rate around.
1854, she and 38 nurses entered the battlefield near Scutari, Turkey
and cared for the sick and injured. They had few supplies and little
outside help. She insisted on establishing sanitary conditions and
providing quality nursing care. This immediately reduced the
mortality rate. Her dedicated service both during the day and night
when she and her nurses made rounds carrying oil lamps created a
public image if the lady with the lamp.
,BSNC 1020 MODULE 1-5 FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Nightingale Fund -
correct answer ✅- established by the English government to
promote nurse's training in England
- used to establish the first Nightingale school of Nursing, at St
Thomas' Hospital in London
Nightingale System of Education (Nightingale Model) -
correct answer ✅- 1860: Nightingale created a financially
independent school of nursing associated with St. Thomas' Hospital
in London, England.
- Became standard of nursing education in England and worldwide
for next century.
-This was a hospital-based model overseen by a trained
superintendent, trained staff members acting as instructors, and a
cadre of nursing students who provided the bulk of the care
What was the results of Nightingale's success in the public
attitudes? -
correct answer ✅- This triggered a remarkable shift in public
attitudes toward the acceptability of women during nursing work
outside the home. Nursing became an instrument of women's
, BSNC 1020 MODULE 1-5 FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
emancipation against the prevailing middle-class restrictions on
women working outside the home.
What advocate role did Nightingale take on? -
correct answer ✅- the health of people
- health care reform
- education preparation for nursing
- She became an advocate for the health of people, healthcare
reform, and educational preparation for nursing through
voluminous writings and lobbying of members of parliament to act
on these views. These views were from health data that she
collected and analyzed.
-She responded viscerally to situations that frustrated and angered
her including the lack of active role for women in Victorian society
and the lack of social action by religious men and women in
general.
Nightingale Model of Nursing Education -
correct answer ✅- Hospital based.
- Overseen by trained superintendent.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Professionalism -
correct answer ✅Behaviors, skills, and attributes required or
expected of members of a profession.
- Conduct, aims or qualities that characterize or make up a
profession or professional.
-Requires specialized knowledge, accountability, autonomy, inquiry,
collegiality, collaboration, innovation & ethics and values
How do nurses display professionalism? -
correct answer ✅Provide quality care to patients thru:
- Commitment to profession led regulation
- Professional ethics
- Personal health & fitness to practice
- Legal & ethical dimensions to nursing
What year did nursing start in Canada? -
correct answer ✅1639 - Hotel Dieu Quebec
Florence Nightingale -
correct answer ✅- founder of modern nursing and a reformer of
hospital sanitation methods
,BSNC 1020 MODULE 1-5 FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What did Florence Nightingale do? -
correct answer ✅- Insisted on better hygiene in field hospitals and
founded the first school of nursing
- Crimean war: reduced mortality from
42-2.2%.Hand-washing/nature working on patient's body was her
mainstay. First health statistician (collected & analyzed health data).
- improved standards of nursing care in the mid-nineteenth century
- known for reducing mortality during the Crimean war through
improved sanitation measures
- triggered a shift in public attitudes towards the acceptability of
women doing nursing outside of the home
Florence Nightingale and Crimean War -
correct answer ✅- She went to the war and helped turn the
mortality rate around.
1854, she and 38 nurses entered the battlefield near Scutari, Turkey
and cared for the sick and injured. They had few supplies and little
outside help. She insisted on establishing sanitary conditions and
providing quality nursing care. This immediately reduced the
mortality rate. Her dedicated service both during the day and night
when she and her nurses made rounds carrying oil lamps created a
public image if the lady with the lamp.
,BSNC 1020 MODULE 1-5 FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Nightingale Fund -
correct answer ✅- established by the English government to
promote nurse's training in England
- used to establish the first Nightingale school of Nursing, at St
Thomas' Hospital in London
Nightingale System of Education (Nightingale Model) -
correct answer ✅- 1860: Nightingale created a financially
independent school of nursing associated with St. Thomas' Hospital
in London, England.
- Became standard of nursing education in England and worldwide
for next century.
-This was a hospital-based model overseen by a trained
superintendent, trained staff members acting as instructors, and a
cadre of nursing students who provided the bulk of the care
What was the results of Nightingale's success in the public
attitudes? -
correct answer ✅- This triggered a remarkable shift in public
attitudes toward the acceptability of women during nursing work
outside the home. Nursing became an instrument of women's
, BSNC 1020 MODULE 1-5 FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
emancipation against the prevailing middle-class restrictions on
women working outside the home.
What advocate role did Nightingale take on? -
correct answer ✅- the health of people
- health care reform
- education preparation for nursing
- She became an advocate for the health of people, healthcare
reform, and educational preparation for nursing through
voluminous writings and lobbying of members of parliament to act
on these views. These views were from health data that she
collected and analyzed.
-She responded viscerally to situations that frustrated and angered
her including the lack of active role for women in Victorian society
and the lack of social action by religious men and women in
general.
Nightingale Model of Nursing Education -
correct answer ✅- Hospital based.
- Overseen by trained superintendent.
