NURS-1200 EXAM ONE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | NURS-1200
EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE & PRACTICE TEST 2026/2027
A significant report also known as Nursing and Nursing Education in the United States, that was released
in 1922 and advocated for the establishment of University schools of nursing to train nursing leaders. -
ANS ✔✔Goldmark Report
Who are the first people in our record that we study from that wanted to know that causation of illness?
- ANS ✔✔The Greek
Greek Era - ANS ✔✔The periods of Greek history in classical antiquity, lasting from approximately 750
B.C. (the archaic period) to 146 B.C. (the Roman conquest). It is generally considered to be the seminal
culture that provided the foundation of western civilization period time of Hippocrates, father of
medicine. In Greek society, health was considered to result from a balance between mind and body.
Roman Era - ANS ✔✔The periods of Roman history in classical antiquity, lasting from approximately 146
B.C. (The Roman conquest of Greece ) or 31 B.C. (defeat of Marc Anthony by Augustus at the battle of
Actium) two approximately A.D. 476 (fall of the Roman Empire ).Roman civilization is often grouped into
classical antiquity with ancient Greece, a civilization that inspired much of the culture of ancient Rome.
The development of policy, law , and protection of public health was an important precursor to our
modern public health systems.
Female servants who did the work of God by ministering to the needs of others. Nursing was most
influenced by Christianity with the beginning of these female servants. This role in the church was
considered a forward step in the development of nursing and in the 1800s which strongly influence the
young Florence Nightingale. - ANS ✔✔Deaconesses
Religious changes during the Renaissance that influenced nursing perhaps more than any other aspect of
society. During this., the monasteries were abolished. The effects on nursing were drastic: Monostatic-
affiliated institutions , including hospitals and schools, were closed, and orders of nuns, including nurses,
were dissolved. - ANS ✔✔Reformation
Who was identified as a true "Angel of mercy," having reformed military healthcare in the Crimean war
and having used her political savvy to forever change the way society views the health of the vulnerable,
the poor, and the forgotten. She is perhaps one of the most written about women in history? - ANS
✔✔Florence Nightingale
A Boston bookseller and publisher who had an interest in public health, organized the American
statistical society in 1839, and issued a census of Boston in 1845. His census revealed high infant
mortality rates and high overall population mortality rates . In his report of the Massachusetts sanitary
Commission in 1850, he not only outlined his findings on the unsanitary conditions but also made
recommendations for public health reform. He also called for services for well-child care , school-age
children's health, immunizations, mental health, health education for all, and health planning period the
report was revolutionary in its scope and vision for public health. - ANS ✔✔Shattuck Report
,A major figure in the development of the field of public health in Great Britain, he drew attention in a
well-known report to the cost of the unsanitary conditions that shorten the lifespan of the laboring class
and the threats to the wealth of Britain. One consequences of his report was the establishment of the
first Board of Health, the general Board of Health for England, in 1848 - ANS ✔✔Chadwick Report (Full
name Edwin Chadwick)
A wealthy ship owner and philanthropist, he is credited with the establishment of the first visiting nurse
service, which eventually evolved into district nursing in the community. He was so impressed with the
private duty nursing care that his sick wife had received at home that he set out to develop a "district
nursing service" in Liverpool, England. - ANS ✔✔William Rathborne
Lead the effort to form the British nurses Association to Unite British nurses and to mandate registration
as evidence of systematic training. - ANS ✔✔Ethel Fenwick
Founder of the Hotel Dieu de Montreal in 1645 - ANS ✔✔Jeanne Mance
In 1908, she met in Ottawa with 16 representatives from organized nursing bodies to form the Canadian
National Association of trained nurses. - ANS ✔✔Mary Agnes Snively
Also known as Nursing for the Future, authored by Esther Lucille Brown in 1948 and sponsored by the
Russell sage foundation. This report was critical of the quality and structure of nursing schools in the
United States. It became the catalyst for the implementation of educational nursing program
accreditation through the National League for nursing. - ANS ✔✔Brown Report
Founder of the Nurses Associated Alumnae in 1896, which in 1911 officially became known as the
American nurses Association - ANS ✔✔Isabel Hampton Robb
The only full-service professional organization representing the nation's 2.9 million registered nurses
through its 54 constituent member associations. It advances the nursing profession by fostering high
standards of nursing practice, promoting the rights of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and
realistic view of nursing, and lobbying Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting
nurses and the public. - ANS ✔✔American Nurses Association (ANA)
Became a militant suffragist, linking women's roles as the nurses to the emerging women's movement in
the United States. - ANS ✔✔Lavinia Lloyd Dock
The first nursing Journal, developed by Mary Adelaide Nutting, Lavinia Dock, Sofia Palmer, and Mary E.
Davis in October 1900. Through the American nurses Association and the Journal, nurses then had a
professional organization and a National Journal with which to communicate with one another. - ANS
✔✔American Journal of Nursing (AJN)
A staunch activist in the early family planning movement, credited with the founding of Planned
Parenthood of America. She worked as a nurse on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1912 with
immigrant families. She was astonished to find widespread ignorance among these families about
conception, pregnancy, and childbirth. After a horrifying experience with the death of a woman from a
failed self-induced abortion, she devoted her life to teaching woman about birth control. - ANS
✔✔MArgaret Sanger
,Who was the first dean of the army's school of nursing? - ANS ✔✔Annie Goodrich
Establisher of the Henry Street Settlement in 1893 and a colleague of Lillian Wald. She quit medical
school and devoted the remainder of her life to "visions of a better world" for the public health. - ANS
✔✔Mary Brewster
An independent nursing service in New York City where Lillian Wald lived and worked. This later became
the visiting nurse Association of New York City, which laid the foundation for the establishment of public
health nursing in the United States. - ANS ✔✔Henry Street Settlement
African American nurse hired by Lillian Wald in 1906 as evidence of wall's commitment to cultural
diversity. Although unable to visit white clients, she made her own way by "finding" African American
families who needed her service. - ANS ✔✔Elizabeth Tyler
She is considered the first African American public health nurse. She provided district nursing care to
New York city's African American families and is credited with paving the way for African American
nurses in the practice of community health. - ANS ✔✔Jessie Sleet Scales
A wealthy young woman with a great social conscious, she graduated from the New York hospital School
of Nursing an 1891 and is credited with creating the title "public health nurse." - ANS ✔✔Lillian Wald
Founder of the Frontier Nursing Service - ANS ✔✔Mary Breckinridge
Supervisor of public health nursing for the state of Mississippi from 1921 to 1946. She had a vision for a
collaboration with community nurses and granny midwives, who delivered 80% of the African American
babies and Mississippi. - ANS ✔✔Mary D. Osborne
This congressional representative from Ohio is credited with founding of the cadet nurse Corps through
the Bolton act of 1945. By the end of World War II, more than 180,000 nursing students had been
trained through this act, and advanced practice graduate nurses in psychiatry and public health nursing
had received graduate education to increase the number of nurse educators. - ANS ✔✔Frances Payne
Bolton
Director of nursing in the American Red Cross, she initiated a national publicity campaign to recruit
young woman to enter nurses training. - ANS ✔✔Jane A. Delano
Who emphasized the rational treatment of sickness as a natural cause rather than a god-inflicted
phenomenon? - ANS ✔✔Hippocrates of Cos
Who showed the importance of recreation, a balanced mind and body, nutrition, and exercise? - ANS
✔✔Plato
Who built public baths with Filtering systems which marked the beginning of public health and
sanitation? - ANS ✔✔Romans
During the _______ ages for both cures and illnesses include; myths, religions, and & magic. - ANS
✔✔middle
, When was the practice of quarantine developed? - ANS ✔✔Middle Ages
Who developed the practice of quarantining? - ANS ✔✔Medieval People
The rise in ____________ as a result of the reform movements of Martin Luther in Germany and John
Calvin in France & Switzerland - ANS ✔✔Protestantism
Who discovered a method for vaccination of smallpox? - ANS ✔✔Edward Jenner
Who is the founder of modern nursing? - ANS ✔✔Florence Nightingale
Who began professional education for nurses and organized the first school of nursing? - ANS
✔✔Florence Nightingale
Who was the first practicing epidemiologist (who are public health professionals who investigate
patterns and causes of disease and injury in humans)? - ANS ✔✔Florence Nightingale
Who improved sanitation in battlefield hospitals? - ANS ✔✔Florence Nightingale
A Boston schoolteacher who became aware of the horrendous conditions in prisons and mental
institutions. For the rest of her life, she stood out as a tireless zealot for the Humane treatment of the
insane and imprisoned. She had exceptional savvy in dealing with legislators. - ANS ✔✔Dorothea Lynde
Dix
Who was the founder of the American Red Cross, who convinced Congress to ratify the Treaty of Geneva
in 1882? - ANS ✔✔Clara Barton
Who is founder of the frontier nursing service? - ANS ✔✔Clara Breckinridge
The first organized midwife free service in the United States. It served isolated Appalachian communities
on horseback until World War II. - ANS ✔✔Frontier Nursing Service
This congressional representative from Ohio is credited with the founding of the cadet nurse Corps
through the Bolton act of 1945. By the end of World War II, more than 180,000 nursing students had
been trained through this act, and advanced practice graduate nurses in psychiatry and public health
nursing had received graduate education to increase the number of nurse educators. - ANS ✔✔Frances
Payne Bolton
A short-lived job creation program established by the new deal during the great depression in the united
states to rapidly create more manual-labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers. - ANS ✔✔Civil
Works Administration (CWA)
A law acted in 1935 to create a system of transfer payments in which younger, working people supported
older, retired people. - ANS ✔✔Social Security Act
Preparing future nurses who will have the knowledge, skills an attitude (KSA) necessary to continually
improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems within which they work. - ANS ✔✔Quality and
Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)
EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE & PRACTICE TEST 2026/2027
A significant report also known as Nursing and Nursing Education in the United States, that was released
in 1922 and advocated for the establishment of University schools of nursing to train nursing leaders. -
ANS ✔✔Goldmark Report
Who are the first people in our record that we study from that wanted to know that causation of illness?
- ANS ✔✔The Greek
Greek Era - ANS ✔✔The periods of Greek history in classical antiquity, lasting from approximately 750
B.C. (the archaic period) to 146 B.C. (the Roman conquest). It is generally considered to be the seminal
culture that provided the foundation of western civilization period time of Hippocrates, father of
medicine. In Greek society, health was considered to result from a balance between mind and body.
Roman Era - ANS ✔✔The periods of Roman history in classical antiquity, lasting from approximately 146
B.C. (The Roman conquest of Greece ) or 31 B.C. (defeat of Marc Anthony by Augustus at the battle of
Actium) two approximately A.D. 476 (fall of the Roman Empire ).Roman civilization is often grouped into
classical antiquity with ancient Greece, a civilization that inspired much of the culture of ancient Rome.
The development of policy, law , and protection of public health was an important precursor to our
modern public health systems.
Female servants who did the work of God by ministering to the needs of others. Nursing was most
influenced by Christianity with the beginning of these female servants. This role in the church was
considered a forward step in the development of nursing and in the 1800s which strongly influence the
young Florence Nightingale. - ANS ✔✔Deaconesses
Religious changes during the Renaissance that influenced nursing perhaps more than any other aspect of
society. During this., the monasteries were abolished. The effects on nursing were drastic: Monostatic-
affiliated institutions , including hospitals and schools, were closed, and orders of nuns, including nurses,
were dissolved. - ANS ✔✔Reformation
Who was identified as a true "Angel of mercy," having reformed military healthcare in the Crimean war
and having used her political savvy to forever change the way society views the health of the vulnerable,
the poor, and the forgotten. She is perhaps one of the most written about women in history? - ANS
✔✔Florence Nightingale
A Boston bookseller and publisher who had an interest in public health, organized the American
statistical society in 1839, and issued a census of Boston in 1845. His census revealed high infant
mortality rates and high overall population mortality rates . In his report of the Massachusetts sanitary
Commission in 1850, he not only outlined his findings on the unsanitary conditions but also made
recommendations for public health reform. He also called for services for well-child care , school-age
children's health, immunizations, mental health, health education for all, and health planning period the
report was revolutionary in its scope and vision for public health. - ANS ✔✔Shattuck Report
,A major figure in the development of the field of public health in Great Britain, he drew attention in a
well-known report to the cost of the unsanitary conditions that shorten the lifespan of the laboring class
and the threats to the wealth of Britain. One consequences of his report was the establishment of the
first Board of Health, the general Board of Health for England, in 1848 - ANS ✔✔Chadwick Report (Full
name Edwin Chadwick)
A wealthy ship owner and philanthropist, he is credited with the establishment of the first visiting nurse
service, which eventually evolved into district nursing in the community. He was so impressed with the
private duty nursing care that his sick wife had received at home that he set out to develop a "district
nursing service" in Liverpool, England. - ANS ✔✔William Rathborne
Lead the effort to form the British nurses Association to Unite British nurses and to mandate registration
as evidence of systematic training. - ANS ✔✔Ethel Fenwick
Founder of the Hotel Dieu de Montreal in 1645 - ANS ✔✔Jeanne Mance
In 1908, she met in Ottawa with 16 representatives from organized nursing bodies to form the Canadian
National Association of trained nurses. - ANS ✔✔Mary Agnes Snively
Also known as Nursing for the Future, authored by Esther Lucille Brown in 1948 and sponsored by the
Russell sage foundation. This report was critical of the quality and structure of nursing schools in the
United States. It became the catalyst for the implementation of educational nursing program
accreditation through the National League for nursing. - ANS ✔✔Brown Report
Founder of the Nurses Associated Alumnae in 1896, which in 1911 officially became known as the
American nurses Association - ANS ✔✔Isabel Hampton Robb
The only full-service professional organization representing the nation's 2.9 million registered nurses
through its 54 constituent member associations. It advances the nursing profession by fostering high
standards of nursing practice, promoting the rights of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and
realistic view of nursing, and lobbying Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting
nurses and the public. - ANS ✔✔American Nurses Association (ANA)
Became a militant suffragist, linking women's roles as the nurses to the emerging women's movement in
the United States. - ANS ✔✔Lavinia Lloyd Dock
The first nursing Journal, developed by Mary Adelaide Nutting, Lavinia Dock, Sofia Palmer, and Mary E.
Davis in October 1900. Through the American nurses Association and the Journal, nurses then had a
professional organization and a National Journal with which to communicate with one another. - ANS
✔✔American Journal of Nursing (AJN)
A staunch activist in the early family planning movement, credited with the founding of Planned
Parenthood of America. She worked as a nurse on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1912 with
immigrant families. She was astonished to find widespread ignorance among these families about
conception, pregnancy, and childbirth. After a horrifying experience with the death of a woman from a
failed self-induced abortion, she devoted her life to teaching woman about birth control. - ANS
✔✔MArgaret Sanger
,Who was the first dean of the army's school of nursing? - ANS ✔✔Annie Goodrich
Establisher of the Henry Street Settlement in 1893 and a colleague of Lillian Wald. She quit medical
school and devoted the remainder of her life to "visions of a better world" for the public health. - ANS
✔✔Mary Brewster
An independent nursing service in New York City where Lillian Wald lived and worked. This later became
the visiting nurse Association of New York City, which laid the foundation for the establishment of public
health nursing in the United States. - ANS ✔✔Henry Street Settlement
African American nurse hired by Lillian Wald in 1906 as evidence of wall's commitment to cultural
diversity. Although unable to visit white clients, she made her own way by "finding" African American
families who needed her service. - ANS ✔✔Elizabeth Tyler
She is considered the first African American public health nurse. She provided district nursing care to
New York city's African American families and is credited with paving the way for African American
nurses in the practice of community health. - ANS ✔✔Jessie Sleet Scales
A wealthy young woman with a great social conscious, she graduated from the New York hospital School
of Nursing an 1891 and is credited with creating the title "public health nurse." - ANS ✔✔Lillian Wald
Founder of the Frontier Nursing Service - ANS ✔✔Mary Breckinridge
Supervisor of public health nursing for the state of Mississippi from 1921 to 1946. She had a vision for a
collaboration with community nurses and granny midwives, who delivered 80% of the African American
babies and Mississippi. - ANS ✔✔Mary D. Osborne
This congressional representative from Ohio is credited with founding of the cadet nurse Corps through
the Bolton act of 1945. By the end of World War II, more than 180,000 nursing students had been
trained through this act, and advanced practice graduate nurses in psychiatry and public health nursing
had received graduate education to increase the number of nurse educators. - ANS ✔✔Frances Payne
Bolton
Director of nursing in the American Red Cross, she initiated a national publicity campaign to recruit
young woman to enter nurses training. - ANS ✔✔Jane A. Delano
Who emphasized the rational treatment of sickness as a natural cause rather than a god-inflicted
phenomenon? - ANS ✔✔Hippocrates of Cos
Who showed the importance of recreation, a balanced mind and body, nutrition, and exercise? - ANS
✔✔Plato
Who built public baths with Filtering systems which marked the beginning of public health and
sanitation? - ANS ✔✔Romans
During the _______ ages for both cures and illnesses include; myths, religions, and & magic. - ANS
✔✔middle
, When was the practice of quarantine developed? - ANS ✔✔Middle Ages
Who developed the practice of quarantining? - ANS ✔✔Medieval People
The rise in ____________ as a result of the reform movements of Martin Luther in Germany and John
Calvin in France & Switzerland - ANS ✔✔Protestantism
Who discovered a method for vaccination of smallpox? - ANS ✔✔Edward Jenner
Who is the founder of modern nursing? - ANS ✔✔Florence Nightingale
Who began professional education for nurses and organized the first school of nursing? - ANS
✔✔Florence Nightingale
Who was the first practicing epidemiologist (who are public health professionals who investigate
patterns and causes of disease and injury in humans)? - ANS ✔✔Florence Nightingale
Who improved sanitation in battlefield hospitals? - ANS ✔✔Florence Nightingale
A Boston schoolteacher who became aware of the horrendous conditions in prisons and mental
institutions. For the rest of her life, she stood out as a tireless zealot for the Humane treatment of the
insane and imprisoned. She had exceptional savvy in dealing with legislators. - ANS ✔✔Dorothea Lynde
Dix
Who was the founder of the American Red Cross, who convinced Congress to ratify the Treaty of Geneva
in 1882? - ANS ✔✔Clara Barton
Who is founder of the frontier nursing service? - ANS ✔✔Clara Breckinridge
The first organized midwife free service in the United States. It served isolated Appalachian communities
on horseback until World War II. - ANS ✔✔Frontier Nursing Service
This congressional representative from Ohio is credited with the founding of the cadet nurse Corps
through the Bolton act of 1945. By the end of World War II, more than 180,000 nursing students had
been trained through this act, and advanced practice graduate nurses in psychiatry and public health
nursing had received graduate education to increase the number of nurse educators. - ANS ✔✔Frances
Payne Bolton
A short-lived job creation program established by the new deal during the great depression in the united
states to rapidly create more manual-labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers. - ANS ✔✔Civil
Works Administration (CWA)
A law acted in 1935 to create a system of transfer payments in which younger, working people supported
older, retired people. - ANS ✔✔Social Security Act
Preparing future nurses who will have the knowledge, skills an attitude (KSA) necessary to continually
improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems within which they work. - ANS ✔✔Quality and
Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)
