NURS 2300 FINAL EXAM 2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔American Civil War - - ✔✔1861 to 1873
Response of catholic orders, sisters of charity, mercy and holy cross provided care
✔✔Dorthea Dix
- Long time advocate for
- Appointed -
- Instrumental in creating -
- Lives of countless Union soldiers were - - ✔✔- mental health and prisoners
- superintendent of women nurses by Union Army
- month long training program at 2 NY hospitals for women who wanted to help
- saved, some by Harriet Tubman, Sojouner Truth, and Susie King Taylor
✔✔Mary Ann Bickerdyke
- Known for -
- Known as -
- She was a -
- She decided to -
- She hired -
- She was not - - ✔✔Mother Bickerdyke
- traveling to care for soldiers setting up more than 300 hospitals
- herbalist, alternative treatments and active member of her church who selected to
send her to deliver supplied to troops (had no authority)
- set up field hospitals and was accompanied by Ulysses S Grant making cleanliness a
priority
- escaped and former slaves to work with her
- a nurse but provided nursing services
✔✔Mary E Mahoney
- First -
- Began training at -
- 1st colored -
- only graduated 3 with a diploma - - ✔✔educated, professionally trained black nurse
- New England hospital for women and children
- girl admitted
- and she was one of them
✔✔Louisa May Alcott
- She was an -
- Wrote - - ✔✔author and served as a nurse and wrote about her experiences
- Little women novel
✔✔Lillian Ward
, - She was a -
- Started -
- Founded -
- One of the founders of - - ✔✔nurse and social activist
- first visiting nurse association in NY
- Henry Street Settlement (first formalized public health nursing practice in NY and is
still in practice)
- National Association for Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
✔✔Margaret Sanger - - ✔✔safe contraception and family practice
✔✔Jessie Sleet Scales - - ✔✔African american, first to bring community health nursing
principles to tenants of NY - with Lillian Ward
✔✔Describe guidelines and benefits of prereading for lectures
5 benefits: - ✔✔It helps improve understanding and retention of lecture and reading
assignments
- Rapidly determine the big picture
- pick out patterns
- the least you should do before lecture
- can increase your reading by 25% and comprehension by 10%
1. gives an idea of what instructor thinks is important
2. order on info
3. auditory mode of input
4. adds most recent info not in books
5. can ask questions
✔✔Identify characteristics of a profession
- Definition
- Consistently appear - - ✔✔Profession - an occupational group with a set of attitudes or
behaviors or both
Service/Altruism
Specialized knowledge
Autonomy/ethics
✔✔Distinguish between occupation and profession
- definitions of both -
Earliest recognized learned professions =
Professionalization - - ✔✔Occupation - persons regular work, or profession, job,
principal activity
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔American Civil War - - ✔✔1861 to 1873
Response of catholic orders, sisters of charity, mercy and holy cross provided care
✔✔Dorthea Dix
- Long time advocate for
- Appointed -
- Instrumental in creating -
- Lives of countless Union soldiers were - - ✔✔- mental health and prisoners
- superintendent of women nurses by Union Army
- month long training program at 2 NY hospitals for women who wanted to help
- saved, some by Harriet Tubman, Sojouner Truth, and Susie King Taylor
✔✔Mary Ann Bickerdyke
- Known for -
- Known as -
- She was a -
- She decided to -
- She hired -
- She was not - - ✔✔Mother Bickerdyke
- traveling to care for soldiers setting up more than 300 hospitals
- herbalist, alternative treatments and active member of her church who selected to
send her to deliver supplied to troops (had no authority)
- set up field hospitals and was accompanied by Ulysses S Grant making cleanliness a
priority
- escaped and former slaves to work with her
- a nurse but provided nursing services
✔✔Mary E Mahoney
- First -
- Began training at -
- 1st colored -
- only graduated 3 with a diploma - - ✔✔educated, professionally trained black nurse
- New England hospital for women and children
- girl admitted
- and she was one of them
✔✔Louisa May Alcott
- She was an -
- Wrote - - ✔✔author and served as a nurse and wrote about her experiences
- Little women novel
✔✔Lillian Ward
, - She was a -
- Started -
- Founded -
- One of the founders of - - ✔✔nurse and social activist
- first visiting nurse association in NY
- Henry Street Settlement (first formalized public health nursing practice in NY and is
still in practice)
- National Association for Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
✔✔Margaret Sanger - - ✔✔safe contraception and family practice
✔✔Jessie Sleet Scales - - ✔✔African american, first to bring community health nursing
principles to tenants of NY - with Lillian Ward
✔✔Describe guidelines and benefits of prereading for lectures
5 benefits: - ✔✔It helps improve understanding and retention of lecture and reading
assignments
- Rapidly determine the big picture
- pick out patterns
- the least you should do before lecture
- can increase your reading by 25% and comprehension by 10%
1. gives an idea of what instructor thinks is important
2. order on info
3. auditory mode of input
4. adds most recent info not in books
5. can ask questions
✔✔Identify characteristics of a profession
- Definition
- Consistently appear - - ✔✔Profession - an occupational group with a set of attitudes or
behaviors or both
Service/Altruism
Specialized knowledge
Autonomy/ethics
✔✔Distinguish between occupation and profession
- definitions of both -
Earliest recognized learned professions =
Professionalization - - ✔✔Occupation - persons regular work, or profession, job,
principal activity