NCLEX-STYLE PRACTICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2026/2027
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) - correct answer ✔✔-Founder of modern nursing
-Advocated for health maintenance
Contributed to infection prevention
Mary Seacole (1808-18810 - correct answer ✔✔-Jamaican Healer
-Offered services to Nightingale during Crimean War
-Minority Nurse
-"Mother" Seacole
-Faced Predjudice
Dorothea Dix (1802-1887) - correct answer ✔✔-Best-known for her work on behalf of the
mentally ill.
-Superintendent of Nurses for Union Army
Clara Barton (1821-1912) - correct answer ✔✔-started the American Red Cross in 1881
-Teacher
-Founded National First Aid Association of America in 1905
Linda Richards (1841-1930) - correct answer ✔✔-First trained nurse in America
-Created first written patient reports and night shift nursing
-Started Japan's 1st Nursing Program and programs across U.S.
Lillian D. Wald (1867-1940) - correct answer ✔✔-Responsible for public health nursing in the
United States