NUR 301 Exam 1 with Correct Answers
What are the four nursing aims?
1. Promote health
2. Prevent illness
3. Restore health
4. facilitate coping with disability or death
What are the 7 criteria for nusing profession? (be able to ID examples of how nursing
schieves the criteria discussed in class- select all that apply)
1. Well defined body of specific and unique knowledge
2. Strong service or orientation
3. recognized authority by a professional group
4. code of ethics
5. professional organization that sets standards
6. ongoing research
7. autonomy and self regulation
Know the general differences between ADN and BSN educational programs in terms of:
nursing practive, evidence-based practice, informatics, public health/community nursing-
Which program has more content in each of these areas?
-BSN
-emphasize nursing research and informatics
-more exposure to community/public health content
,-Include leadership/sysyems-based improvement components (both leading at bedside &
management and EBP)
-most hospitals pefer/requite BSN for newly graduated nurses
-80% of RNs in hospitals must have BSN degree my 2020
What exam do registered nurses take to obtain their license? What oversight body manages
this exam?
Test standards same: NCLEX-RN exam for diploma, ADN, & BSN managed by the National
Council for State Boards of Nursing [NCSBN])
Baptist Tabernacle Infirmary Training school for Christian Nurses what founded in what
year?
1902
Mercer University was founded under the leadership of Jesse Mercer, prominent Baptist
from Georgia, in what year?
1833
What was the first "modern school of nursing?" when was it founded and by whom?
St. Thomas Hospital in London, founded in 1860 by Florence Nightingale
Who, although not traied as a nurse, served as a nurse during the American Civil War, and
founded the American Red Cross, and was known as the "Angel of the Battlefield?"
Clara Barton
, Who was the first African American Nurse to graduate from a formal school of nursing in
1879 and advocated to eliminate discrimination in the nursing field?
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Which influential nursing figure founded the Henry Street Settlement house, which still
operates as a nonprofit social organization offering health and wellness services in New
York's lower east side?
Lillian Wald (along with her friend Mary Brewster)
What influential nursing leader founded the Frontier Nursing Service in 1925 which
formalized?
Mary Brekinridge
What prominent nurse wrote a book entitled "Materia Medica for Nurses" about drugs
and solutions, was assistant superintendent of Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and
devoted most of her life to advancing the right of women to vote?
Lavinia Lloyd Dock
What barriers slowed nursing's development into a profession in the early 20th century?
-lack of educational standards, the male dominance in health care, and the pervading Victorian
belief that women were subordinate to men combined to contribute to several decades of slow
progress toward professionalism in nursing.
Name the four nursing metaparadigms or four common concepts in nursing theory and
which is the most important?
What are the four nursing aims?
1. Promote health
2. Prevent illness
3. Restore health
4. facilitate coping with disability or death
What are the 7 criteria for nusing profession? (be able to ID examples of how nursing
schieves the criteria discussed in class- select all that apply)
1. Well defined body of specific and unique knowledge
2. Strong service or orientation
3. recognized authority by a professional group
4. code of ethics
5. professional organization that sets standards
6. ongoing research
7. autonomy and self regulation
Know the general differences between ADN and BSN educational programs in terms of:
nursing practive, evidence-based practice, informatics, public health/community nursing-
Which program has more content in each of these areas?
-BSN
-emphasize nursing research and informatics
-more exposure to community/public health content
,-Include leadership/sysyems-based improvement components (both leading at bedside &
management and EBP)
-most hospitals pefer/requite BSN for newly graduated nurses
-80% of RNs in hospitals must have BSN degree my 2020
What exam do registered nurses take to obtain their license? What oversight body manages
this exam?
Test standards same: NCLEX-RN exam for diploma, ADN, & BSN managed by the National
Council for State Boards of Nursing [NCSBN])
Baptist Tabernacle Infirmary Training school for Christian Nurses what founded in what
year?
1902
Mercer University was founded under the leadership of Jesse Mercer, prominent Baptist
from Georgia, in what year?
1833
What was the first "modern school of nursing?" when was it founded and by whom?
St. Thomas Hospital in London, founded in 1860 by Florence Nightingale
Who, although not traied as a nurse, served as a nurse during the American Civil War, and
founded the American Red Cross, and was known as the "Angel of the Battlefield?"
Clara Barton
, Who was the first African American Nurse to graduate from a formal school of nursing in
1879 and advocated to eliminate discrimination in the nursing field?
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Which influential nursing figure founded the Henry Street Settlement house, which still
operates as a nonprofit social organization offering health and wellness services in New
York's lower east side?
Lillian Wald (along with her friend Mary Brewster)
What influential nursing leader founded the Frontier Nursing Service in 1925 which
formalized?
Mary Brekinridge
What prominent nurse wrote a book entitled "Materia Medica for Nurses" about drugs
and solutions, was assistant superintendent of Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and
devoted most of her life to advancing the right of women to vote?
Lavinia Lloyd Dock
What barriers slowed nursing's development into a profession in the early 20th century?
-lack of educational standards, the male dominance in health care, and the pervading Victorian
belief that women were subordinate to men combined to contribute to several decades of slow
progress toward professionalism in nursing.
Name the four nursing metaparadigms or four common concepts in nursing theory and
which is the most important?
