NUR 164 EXAM #1 – NURSING STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE QUESTIONS & EXAM
REVIEW 2026/2027
Define health - ANS ✔✔a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity
Who was Florence Nightingale? - ANS ✔✔define nursing as both an *art & a science*
-differentiated nursing FROM medicine
-created freestanding nursing education
-published books about nursing & health care
-regarded as the *founder of modern nursing*
Who was Clara Barton? - ANS ✔✔volunteered to care for wounds and freed union soldiers during the
civil war
served as a supervisor of nurses for the *army of James*
ESTABLISHED THE *RED CROSS* in 1882
Who was Dorothea Dix? - ANS ✔✔served as superintendent of the female nurses of the army during the
civil war
recruiting army nurses
pioneering crusader for the reform treatment of the *mentally ill*
Who was Lillian Wald? - ANS ✔✔founder of *public health nursing*
established a neighborhood nursing service for the sick poor of the Lower East Side in NYC
Who was Harriet Tubman? - ANS ✔✔a nurse and abolitionist
active in the underground railroad movement before joining the Union Army during the Civil War
Who was Elizabeth Smellie? - ANS ✔✔a member of the original *Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada*
& also organized the canadian women's army corps during WW2
4 family stages - ANS ✔✔1. couple and family with children
2. family with adolescents and young adults
3. family with middle aged adults
4. family with older adults
-each stage brings different pressures into home
-sandwich generation- have own children and grandparents in home
REVIEW 2026/2027
Define health - ANS ✔✔a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity
Who was Florence Nightingale? - ANS ✔✔define nursing as both an *art & a science*
-differentiated nursing FROM medicine
-created freestanding nursing education
-published books about nursing & health care
-regarded as the *founder of modern nursing*
Who was Clara Barton? - ANS ✔✔volunteered to care for wounds and freed union soldiers during the
civil war
served as a supervisor of nurses for the *army of James*
ESTABLISHED THE *RED CROSS* in 1882
Who was Dorothea Dix? - ANS ✔✔served as superintendent of the female nurses of the army during the
civil war
recruiting army nurses
pioneering crusader for the reform treatment of the *mentally ill*
Who was Lillian Wald? - ANS ✔✔founder of *public health nursing*
established a neighborhood nursing service for the sick poor of the Lower East Side in NYC
Who was Harriet Tubman? - ANS ✔✔a nurse and abolitionist
active in the underground railroad movement before joining the Union Army during the Civil War
Who was Elizabeth Smellie? - ANS ✔✔a member of the original *Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada*
& also organized the canadian women's army corps during WW2
4 family stages - ANS ✔✔1. couple and family with children
2. family with adolescents and young adults
3. family with middle aged adults
4. family with older adults
-each stage brings different pressures into home
-sandwich generation- have own children and grandparents in home
