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Format: Multiple Choice
Chapter: 1
Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Coordinated Care
Cognitive Level: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Integrated Process: Caring
Objective: 2, 3
Page and header: 3, The Nightingale School
1. Which of Florence Nightingale’s nursing principles is still practiced today?
A) The nurse’s role is defined by the physician's orders.
B) The nurse’s primary role is to spend time caring for others.
C) The nurse is viewed as an independent healthcare provider.
D) The nurse is tasked with the responsibility of keeping the environment clean.
Ans: B
Feedback:
Florence Nightingale believed that nursing was to put the client in the best condition
for nature to act on the client. Sanitary conditions and cleanliness are vital to
recovery, which maintains health and supports recuperation. The nurse must work as
a team member. While the physician’s orders form the framework for individual
nursing care, the nurse is required to exercise discretion when applying them to the
client.
Format: Multiple Choice
Chapter: 1
Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Coordinated Care
Cognitive Level: Remember
Difficulty: Moderate
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 1
Page and header: 2, Roman Matrons
2. What contribution did Roman Matron Phoebe make to the origins of nursing?
,A) Established first gerontological facility
B) Was the first deaconess and visiting nurse
C) Established inns and hospitals for pilgrims
D) Was the namesake of the first free hospital in Rome in 390 AD
Ans: B
Feedback:
Phoebe was the first deaconess and visiting nurse. Saint Paula established inns and
hospitals for pilgrims. Fabiola was the namesake of the first free hospital in Rome in
390 AD. Saint Helena established the first gerontological facility.
Format: Multiple Choice
Chapter: 1
Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Coordinated Care
Cognitive Level: Remember
Difficulty: Moderate
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 1
Page and header: 2, Roman Matrons
3. What contribution did Roman Matron Saint Marcella make to the origins of
nursing?
A) First to teach nursing skills
B) Was the first deaconess and visiting nurse
C) Established inns and hospitals for pilgrims
D) Was the namesake of the first free hospital in Rome in 390 AD
Ans: A
Feedback:
Saint Marcella converted her beautiful home into a monastery, where she taught
nursing skills. She is considered the first nursing educator. Phoebe was the first
deaconess and visiting nurse. Saint Paula established inns and hospitals for pilgrims.
Fabiola was the namesake of the first free hospital in Rome in 390 AD.
Format: Multiple Choice
, Chapter: 1
Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Coordinated Care
Cognitive Level: Remember
Difficulty: Moderate
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 1
Page and header: 2, Monastic and Military Nursing Orders
4. In what time period were monastic orders established to care for the sick?
A) 500 BC
B) 460 BC
C) First century
D) Second century
Ans: C
Feedback:
Beginning in the first century, several monastic orders were established to care for the
sick. By 500 BC, the advanced Greek civilization had begun to acknowledge causes of
disease other than punishment by God or demonic possession. One of the early
outstanding figures in medicine was Hippocrates, born in 460 BC on the Greek island
of Kos. Hippocrates is the acknowledged “Father of Medicine.” During the Crusades,
second century, (1096–1291), female religious orders in northern Europe were nearly
eliminated.
Format: Multiple Select
Chapter: 1
Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Coordinated Care
Cognitive Level: Remember
Difficulty: Moderate
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 5
Page and header: 4, The First Nursing Schools
5. Which nursing programs were established on the basis of the Nightingale plan?
Select all that apply.
A) Kaiserswerth School for Nursing