NURSING 201 EXAM 1 [2026] UPDATED ACTUAL Exam |
Question and Answer | DETAILED SOLUTIONS AND
EXAM REVIEW
• What are the six main components of the definition of nursing according to the
ANA? -✓✓ ANSWER: 1. protects
2. promotes
3. optimizes health and ability
4. prevents illness and injury
5. facilitates healing
6. alleviates discomfort to treat and diagnose the human response
• How has the role of the nurse/ caregiver changed over the years? -✓✓
ANSWER: 1. mother was the primary caregiver/nurturer and learned her skills
from her mother (family based)
2. Deaconesses (widows) became the primary caregivers in the christian era and
fulfilled their role of love and caring for the ill (no training)
3. Monks and Nuns became caregivers as monasteries implemented hospital beds
by the alter to cure illness-during the protestant reformation patients were
sharing beds with one another (led to deaths by transmission)
4. "common women" became the primary caregivers with the first "hospitals",
often the women were not trained
5. protestant quaker sisters of charity proposed a different caregiving system
, • Who established formalized nursing education? -✓✓ ANSWER: Florence
Nightingale
• Who promoted the concept that nursing is distinct from medicine? -✓✓
ANSWER: Florence Nightingale
• What did Florence Nightingale define nursing as? -✓✓ ANSWER: both an art and
a science
• How did Florence Nightingale affect nursing research? -✓✓ ANSWER: kept
accurate records which led to more evidence based research
• Who was first to graduate from the nurse training school of women's hospital of
Philadelphia? -✓✓ ANSWER: Linda Richards
• Who was first African American to graduate from nursing school? -✓✓ ANSWER:
Mary Mahoney
• Who created the American Red Cross? -✓✓ ANSWER: Clara Barton
• During was era was Clara Barton a nurse? -✓✓ ANSWER: Civil War
• Who was the first man to be admitted to a nursing program? -✓✓ ANSWER:
Edward Lyon
Question and Answer | DETAILED SOLUTIONS AND
EXAM REVIEW
• What are the six main components of the definition of nursing according to the
ANA? -✓✓ ANSWER: 1. protects
2. promotes
3. optimizes health and ability
4. prevents illness and injury
5. facilitates healing
6. alleviates discomfort to treat and diagnose the human response
• How has the role of the nurse/ caregiver changed over the years? -✓✓
ANSWER: 1. mother was the primary caregiver/nurturer and learned her skills
from her mother (family based)
2. Deaconesses (widows) became the primary caregivers in the christian era and
fulfilled their role of love and caring for the ill (no training)
3. Monks and Nuns became caregivers as monasteries implemented hospital beds
by the alter to cure illness-during the protestant reformation patients were
sharing beds with one another (led to deaths by transmission)
4. "common women" became the primary caregivers with the first "hospitals",
often the women were not trained
5. protestant quaker sisters of charity proposed a different caregiving system
, • Who established formalized nursing education? -✓✓ ANSWER: Florence
Nightingale
• Who promoted the concept that nursing is distinct from medicine? -✓✓
ANSWER: Florence Nightingale
• What did Florence Nightingale define nursing as? -✓✓ ANSWER: both an art and
a science
• How did Florence Nightingale affect nursing research? -✓✓ ANSWER: kept
accurate records which led to more evidence based research
• Who was first to graduate from the nurse training school of women's hospital of
Philadelphia? -✓✓ ANSWER: Linda Richards
• Who was first African American to graduate from nursing school? -✓✓ ANSWER:
Mary Mahoney
• Who created the American Red Cross? -✓✓ ANSWER: Clara Barton
• During was era was Clara Barton a nurse? -✓✓ ANSWER: Civil War
• Who was the first man to be admitted to a nursing program? -✓✓ ANSWER:
Edward Lyon
