NURSE EXECUTIVE questions and
answers with solutions
Who focused on hygiene and sanitation and believed strongly in continuing education? -
ANSWER Florence Nightingale
Who organized the American Red cross and was responsible for relief operations during the Civil
War? - ANSWER Clara Barton
Who was the nurse who became responsible for construction of state psychiatric hospitals? -
ANSWER Dorothea Dix
Conductor of undergrown railraod who assisted Clara Barton to tend to wounded soldiers
during the Civil War. - ANSWER Harriet Ross Tubman
Born into slavery, nursed Union soldiers, worked to improve sanitary conditions, got food and
clothing for black soldiers - ANSWER Sojourner Truth
Radical changes in nursing education, reduced student work day from 10 to 8 and eliminated
FREE private duty services - ANSWER Isabel Hampton Robb
Created FNS Frontier Nursing Service- 1st midwifery training school - ANSWER Mary
Breckinridge
did a study which resulted in establishment of associate degree nursing education - ANSWER
Mildred Montag
,Nursing leader and women's right activist giving women the right to vote- also a key figure in
community nursing and introduced nuring in schools - ANSWER Lavinia Dock
Early theorist who taught "a patient is a person who requires help toward independence" -
ANSWER Virginia Henderson
America's first African American Nurse - ANSWER Mary Mahoney
a psychiatric nurse- described Nurse- Client relationships - ANSWER Hildegard Peplau
America's first trained nurse- also key figure in development of nursing education, moved from
hosp to hosp an improvement campaign - ANSWER Melinda Ann (Linda) Richards
opened FIRST birth control clinic with her sister in Brooklyn - ANSWER Margaret Sanger
Founder of public health nursing - established a neighborhood nursing service in NYC - ANSWER
Lillian Wald
Religion- *R* Protestant Churches- women subordinate to men- nurse most menial of servants -
ANSWER The Reformation
Earliest counterpart to community health nurses- worldly items were of no concern to nurses,
nurses required strict obedience, devotion, and setting aside themselves - ANSWER Order of the
Deaconesses
Roman Catholic society - sister nurses nursed cholera pt's Mercy Hospitals - ANSWER Sisters of
Mercy
, sisters that visited pt's in homes, hosp, and poorhouses and asylums. Deveoped educational
programs for Nurses - ANSWER Sisters of Charity
Earliest organization for Men in Nursing. Raised standards of education, culture. Care of the sick
was above others duties of Monk. Emphasized Bathing - ANSWER Monastic Orders
Founded during Crusades- staffed 2 hospitals in Jerusalem - ANSWER Military Nursing Orders
*Military* *M* MilitaryNursing Service formed, Florenece Nightingale cleaned up the hosp,
orderlies scrubbed often, camp followers scrubbed clothes, and vermin were under control -
ANSWER Crimean War
Phiadelphia Dispensary was fomed for free pt care, homes and barns were makeshift hosp,
women left during war were there to care for sick and injured Controlled disease and smallpox
vaccination was given - ANSWER Amercan Revolution
Public saw the need for trained nurses, Clara Barton, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth tended to
the soldiers - ANSWER American Civil War
Nursing schools were already established and Isabel Robb developed a plan for managing
nurses - ANSWER Spanish-American War and the Boer War
Increased demand for nurses, Army School of Nursing - nurses needed to be unmarried and of
good moral character - ANSWER World War 1
Bolton Act created the US Caet Nurse Corps. Nurses got full military commission, post war- Hill
Burton Act - ANSWER World War 2
Care focused on soldiers and victims of war - ANSWER Gulf War- Afganistan- Iraq
answers with solutions
Who focused on hygiene and sanitation and believed strongly in continuing education? -
ANSWER Florence Nightingale
Who organized the American Red cross and was responsible for relief operations during the Civil
War? - ANSWER Clara Barton
Who was the nurse who became responsible for construction of state psychiatric hospitals? -
ANSWER Dorothea Dix
Conductor of undergrown railraod who assisted Clara Barton to tend to wounded soldiers
during the Civil War. - ANSWER Harriet Ross Tubman
Born into slavery, nursed Union soldiers, worked to improve sanitary conditions, got food and
clothing for black soldiers - ANSWER Sojourner Truth
Radical changes in nursing education, reduced student work day from 10 to 8 and eliminated
FREE private duty services - ANSWER Isabel Hampton Robb
Created FNS Frontier Nursing Service- 1st midwifery training school - ANSWER Mary
Breckinridge
did a study which resulted in establishment of associate degree nursing education - ANSWER
Mildred Montag
,Nursing leader and women's right activist giving women the right to vote- also a key figure in
community nursing and introduced nuring in schools - ANSWER Lavinia Dock
Early theorist who taught "a patient is a person who requires help toward independence" -
ANSWER Virginia Henderson
America's first African American Nurse - ANSWER Mary Mahoney
a psychiatric nurse- described Nurse- Client relationships - ANSWER Hildegard Peplau
America's first trained nurse- also key figure in development of nursing education, moved from
hosp to hosp an improvement campaign - ANSWER Melinda Ann (Linda) Richards
opened FIRST birth control clinic with her sister in Brooklyn - ANSWER Margaret Sanger
Founder of public health nursing - established a neighborhood nursing service in NYC - ANSWER
Lillian Wald
Religion- *R* Protestant Churches- women subordinate to men- nurse most menial of servants -
ANSWER The Reformation
Earliest counterpart to community health nurses- worldly items were of no concern to nurses,
nurses required strict obedience, devotion, and setting aside themselves - ANSWER Order of the
Deaconesses
Roman Catholic society - sister nurses nursed cholera pt's Mercy Hospitals - ANSWER Sisters of
Mercy
, sisters that visited pt's in homes, hosp, and poorhouses and asylums. Deveoped educational
programs for Nurses - ANSWER Sisters of Charity
Earliest organization for Men in Nursing. Raised standards of education, culture. Care of the sick
was above others duties of Monk. Emphasized Bathing - ANSWER Monastic Orders
Founded during Crusades- staffed 2 hospitals in Jerusalem - ANSWER Military Nursing Orders
*Military* *M* MilitaryNursing Service formed, Florenece Nightingale cleaned up the hosp,
orderlies scrubbed often, camp followers scrubbed clothes, and vermin were under control -
ANSWER Crimean War
Phiadelphia Dispensary was fomed for free pt care, homes and barns were makeshift hosp,
women left during war were there to care for sick and injured Controlled disease and smallpox
vaccination was given - ANSWER Amercan Revolution
Public saw the need for trained nurses, Clara Barton, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth tended to
the soldiers - ANSWER American Civil War
Nursing schools were already established and Isabel Robb developed a plan for managing
nurses - ANSWER Spanish-American War and the Boer War
Increased demand for nurses, Army School of Nursing - nurses needed to be unmarried and of
good moral character - ANSWER World War 1
Bolton Act created the US Caet Nurse Corps. Nurses got full military commission, post war- Hill
Burton Act - ANSWER World War 2
Care focused on soldiers and victims of war - ANSWER Gulf War- Afganistan- Iraq
