,Test Bank for
Fundamental
Concepts and
, Skills for
NurSING 6th
Edition
Williams-all
chapters-
2022- 2023
Chapter 01: NurSING and the HEALth Care System
Williams: deWit's Fundamental Concepts and Skills for NurSING, 5th
Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Florence Nightingale’s contributions to nurSING practice and
education:
, a. are historically important but have no validity for nurSING today.
b. were neither recognized nor appreciated in her own time.
c. were a major factor in reducing the death rate in the Crimean War.
d. were limited only to the care of severe traumatic wounds.
ACCULATE ANS:C
By improving sanitation, nutrition ventilation, and handwashing
techniques, Florence Nightingale’s nurses dramatically reduced the
death rate from injuries in the Crimean War.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: p. 2 OBJ:
Theory #1 TOP: NurSING History KEY:
NurSING Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: N/A
2. Early nurSING education and care in the United States:
a. were directed at community HEALth.
b. provided independence for women through education and
employment.
c. were an educational model based in institutions of higher learning.
d. have continued to be entirely focused on hospital nurSING.
ACCULATE ANS:B
Because of the influence of early nNuUrRsiSnI gNGleTaBd.eCrOs,MnurSING
education became more formalized through apprenticeships in
Nightingale schools that offered independence to women through
education and employment.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: p. 2 OBJ:
Theory #4 TOP: NurSING History KEY:
NurSING Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: N/A
Fundamental
Concepts and
, Skills for
NurSING 6th
Edition
Williams-all
chapters-
2022- 2023
Chapter 01: NurSING and the HEALth Care System
Williams: deWit's Fundamental Concepts and Skills for NurSING, 5th
Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Florence Nightingale’s contributions to nurSING practice and
education:
, a. are historically important but have no validity for nurSING today.
b. were neither recognized nor appreciated in her own time.
c. were a major factor in reducing the death rate in the Crimean War.
d. were limited only to the care of severe traumatic wounds.
ACCULATE ANS:C
By improving sanitation, nutrition ventilation, and handwashing
techniques, Florence Nightingale’s nurses dramatically reduced the
death rate from injuries in the Crimean War.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: p. 2 OBJ:
Theory #1 TOP: NurSING History KEY:
NurSING Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: N/A
2. Early nurSING education and care in the United States:
a. were directed at community HEALth.
b. provided independence for women through education and
employment.
c. were an educational model based in institutions of higher learning.
d. have continued to be entirely focused on hospital nurSING.
ACCULATE ANS:B
Because of the influence of early nNuUrRsiSnI gNGleTaBd.eCrOs,MnurSING
education became more formalized through apprenticeships in
Nightingale schools that offered independence to women through
education and employment.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: p. 2 OBJ:
Theory #4 TOP: NurSING History KEY:
NurSING Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: N/A
