NUR 410 Midterm UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
women - CORRECT ANSWER -Who were hired by privileged families to care for the
sick and to assist with childbirth?
midwives - CORRECT ANSWER -Shiphrah and Puah were ____________________ who
saved the baby Moses.
Aesclepius - CORRECT ANSWER -Who is the god of medicine that created the
caduceus?
Hippocrates - CORRECT ANSWER -Who is considered the father of medicine?
gender - CORRECT ANSWER -In early civilization Greece, temples to honor Aesclepius
were designated to care for the sick, the ____________________ of the caregivers is unclear.
male - CORRECT ANSWER -In early civilization India, public "hospitals" were staffed
by ____________________ nurses.
men - CORRECT ANSWER -In early civilization Rome, military orders made up
exclusively of ____________________ were developed to care for the injured.
catholic church - CORRECT ANSWER -During the middle ages in the
____________________, nuns and monks cared for the sick.
wealthy - CORRECT ANSWER -In the middle ages, wives of emperors and other
____________________ women could become nurses: mostly midwifes; seen as charitable
works.
,common - CORRECT ANSWER -In the Renaissance and the Reformation Period (Dark
Age of Nursing), care of the sick was regulated to ____________________ women who were
perceived as no better than prisoners, thieves, alcoholics, and prostitutes.
undesirable - CORRECT ANSWER -In the Renaissance and the Reformation Period
(Dark Age of Nursing), nursing is considered an ____________________ job with poor pay,
long hours, and strenuous work that was considered menial.
religious - CORRECT ANSWER -____________________ nursing orders were re-
established out of great concern for social welfare during the renaissance and the reformation
period.
May - CORRECT ANSWER -Nurses week is in ____________________ because this is
when Florence Nightingale's birthday is.
England - CORRECT ANSWER -Florence Nightingale founded the first nursing school in
____________________.
asepsis, infection control - CORRECT ANSWER -Nightingale introduced principles such
as ____________________ and ____________________, along with a system for transcribing
physician's orders and a system to maintain patient records.
statistics - CORRECT ANSWER -Nightingale kept ____________________ that
documented a decrease in the death rate of soldiers as a result of health care reforms that
emphasized sanitary conditions.
nursing research - CORRECT ANSWER -Nightingale has been honored for her
contribution to ____________________.
political activism - CORRECT ANSWER -Nightingale demonstrated the value of
____________________ to affect health care reform.
, married - CORRECT ANSWER -Nurses in Florence Nightingale's nursing school could
not be ____________________.
Mary Seacole - CORRECT ANSWER -Who was denied the opportunity to join
Nightingale's nursing brigade because she was black, so she opened a lodging house with her
own money to care for sick and wounded soldiers in the Crimean War?
Dorthea Dix - CORRECT ANSWER -Who was appointed to organize military hospitals,
provide trained nurses, and disperse supplies; she received no official status and no salary for this
position?
2,000 - CORRECT ANSWER -How many volunteer nurses served in the civil war?
Harriet Tubman - CORRECT ANSWER -Who cared for wounded soldiers and conducted
an "underground railroad" to lead slaves to freedom?
Sojourner Truth - CORRECT ANSWER -Who is known for her abolitionist efforts, as
well as her nursing efforts, was an advocate of clean and sanitary conditions so that patients
could heal?
Susie King Taylor - CORRECT ANSWER -Although hired in laundry
____________________ worked full time as a nurse on the battlefront with no pay or pension;
not considered an official Union Army Nurse.
Clara Barton - CORRECT ANSWER -Who was a volunteer nurse who operated a war
relief program; credited with founding the American Red Cross in 1882?
Louisa May Alcott - CORRECT ANSWER -What was a volunteer nurse that authored
detailed accounts of her experience as a volunteer nurse during the war for a newspaper
publication entitled Hospital Sketches?
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
women - CORRECT ANSWER -Who were hired by privileged families to care for the
sick and to assist with childbirth?
midwives - CORRECT ANSWER -Shiphrah and Puah were ____________________ who
saved the baby Moses.
Aesclepius - CORRECT ANSWER -Who is the god of medicine that created the
caduceus?
Hippocrates - CORRECT ANSWER -Who is considered the father of medicine?
gender - CORRECT ANSWER -In early civilization Greece, temples to honor Aesclepius
were designated to care for the sick, the ____________________ of the caregivers is unclear.
male - CORRECT ANSWER -In early civilization India, public "hospitals" were staffed
by ____________________ nurses.
men - CORRECT ANSWER -In early civilization Rome, military orders made up
exclusively of ____________________ were developed to care for the injured.
catholic church - CORRECT ANSWER -During the middle ages in the
____________________, nuns and monks cared for the sick.
wealthy - CORRECT ANSWER -In the middle ages, wives of emperors and other
____________________ women could become nurses: mostly midwifes; seen as charitable
works.
,common - CORRECT ANSWER -In the Renaissance and the Reformation Period (Dark
Age of Nursing), care of the sick was regulated to ____________________ women who were
perceived as no better than prisoners, thieves, alcoholics, and prostitutes.
undesirable - CORRECT ANSWER -In the Renaissance and the Reformation Period
(Dark Age of Nursing), nursing is considered an ____________________ job with poor pay,
long hours, and strenuous work that was considered menial.
religious - CORRECT ANSWER -____________________ nursing orders were re-
established out of great concern for social welfare during the renaissance and the reformation
period.
May - CORRECT ANSWER -Nurses week is in ____________________ because this is
when Florence Nightingale's birthday is.
England - CORRECT ANSWER -Florence Nightingale founded the first nursing school in
____________________.
asepsis, infection control - CORRECT ANSWER -Nightingale introduced principles such
as ____________________ and ____________________, along with a system for transcribing
physician's orders and a system to maintain patient records.
statistics - CORRECT ANSWER -Nightingale kept ____________________ that
documented a decrease in the death rate of soldiers as a result of health care reforms that
emphasized sanitary conditions.
nursing research - CORRECT ANSWER -Nightingale has been honored for her
contribution to ____________________.
political activism - CORRECT ANSWER -Nightingale demonstrated the value of
____________________ to affect health care reform.
, married - CORRECT ANSWER -Nurses in Florence Nightingale's nursing school could
not be ____________________.
Mary Seacole - CORRECT ANSWER -Who was denied the opportunity to join
Nightingale's nursing brigade because she was black, so she opened a lodging house with her
own money to care for sick and wounded soldiers in the Crimean War?
Dorthea Dix - CORRECT ANSWER -Who was appointed to organize military hospitals,
provide trained nurses, and disperse supplies; she received no official status and no salary for this
position?
2,000 - CORRECT ANSWER -How many volunteer nurses served in the civil war?
Harriet Tubman - CORRECT ANSWER -Who cared for wounded soldiers and conducted
an "underground railroad" to lead slaves to freedom?
Sojourner Truth - CORRECT ANSWER -Who is known for her abolitionist efforts, as
well as her nursing efforts, was an advocate of clean and sanitary conditions so that patients
could heal?
Susie King Taylor - CORRECT ANSWER -Although hired in laundry
____________________ worked full time as a nurse on the battlefront with no pay or pension;
not considered an official Union Army Nurse.
Clara Barton - CORRECT ANSWER -Who was a volunteer nurse who operated a war
relief program; credited with founding the American Red Cross in 1882?
Louisa May Alcott - CORRECT ANSWER -What was a volunteer nurse that authored
detailed accounts of her experience as a volunteer nurse during the war for a newspaper
publication entitled Hospital Sketches?
