Nursing 100 Midterm Exam Questions
and Answers
Health in primitive societies (3 bullets) - Answer--illness was explained by supernatural
beliefs
-care was performed by family
-medicine men or women possed healing powers; drove evil spirits out of the body
Those who cared for the sick in early cultures - Answer-Christian Era: caring for widows,
children, poor and sick
-nurses were not valued
-inmates provided cheap labor and were recruited nurses
Types/characteristics of caretakers - Answer-3 orders of caregivers replaced the
deconnesses
Monastic - Answer-monks cared for men; nuns cared for women
secular - Answer-lay people cared for sick w/o taking church vows
military - Answer-cared for those wounded in war
Florence Nightingale's work in military hospital - Answer--took 38 nurses to war
-mortality rate decreased from 60% to 1%
-soldiers in Civil War
US cadet nursing corp - Answer--WWII
-180,000 young women
Steps of the nursing process - Answer-assessment
diagnosis
planning
intervention
evaluation
Martha Rogers - Answer-A nurse is not a nurse because what he/she does
A nurse is nurse because oh how he/she thinks
What happens to nurses who refuse overtime? - Answer-They may be dismissed and
reported to the license board
What research was found about overtime? - Answer-Nurses were 3x more likely to
make errors after working over 12.5 hours
and Answers
Health in primitive societies (3 bullets) - Answer--illness was explained by supernatural
beliefs
-care was performed by family
-medicine men or women possed healing powers; drove evil spirits out of the body
Those who cared for the sick in early cultures - Answer-Christian Era: caring for widows,
children, poor and sick
-nurses were not valued
-inmates provided cheap labor and were recruited nurses
Types/characteristics of caretakers - Answer-3 orders of caregivers replaced the
deconnesses
Monastic - Answer-monks cared for men; nuns cared for women
secular - Answer-lay people cared for sick w/o taking church vows
military - Answer-cared for those wounded in war
Florence Nightingale's work in military hospital - Answer--took 38 nurses to war
-mortality rate decreased from 60% to 1%
-soldiers in Civil War
US cadet nursing corp - Answer--WWII
-180,000 young women
Steps of the nursing process - Answer-assessment
diagnosis
planning
intervention
evaluation
Martha Rogers - Answer-A nurse is not a nurse because what he/she does
A nurse is nurse because oh how he/she thinks
What happens to nurses who refuse overtime? - Answer-They may be dismissed and
reported to the license board
What research was found about overtime? - Answer-Nurses were 3x more likely to
make errors after working over 12.5 hours
