NUR 274 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | NUR 274 EXAM 1
STUDY GUIDE & PRACTICE TEST 2026/2027
Florence Nightingale - Correct answer ✔✔ - changed form and direction of nursing
- established nursing as respectable field
- Crimean War: greatly decreased mortality rates among sick and wounded
Flo's major project after war - Correct answer ✔✔ - Construct hospitals
- Improve basic hygiene
- Improve public health measures
Flo focused on - Correct answer ✔✔ - cleanliness
- wholesome food
- fresh air
- separation of people from garbage and sewage (living environments and hospital construction)
Flo wrote about - Correct answer ✔✔ - hospitals
- sanitation
- health
- health statistics (created first pie chart)
- nursing and nursing education
Flo's schools: basic principles - Correct answer ✔✔ - nurses being trained in teaching hospitals
associated with medical schools
- nurses were selected carefully and resided in nurses' houses designed to encourage discipline
and form character
,- school matron had final authority in curriculum, living arrangements and all other aspects of
school
- curriculum included both theory and practical experience
- teachers paid for instruction
- records kept on all students - who were required to attend lectures, take quizzes, write papers
and keep diaries
Flo believed nurses should - Correct answer ✔✔ - spend time caring for patients, not cleaning
- continue learning throughout their lifetime and not be stagnant
- be intelligent and use that intelligence to improve the conditions of their patients
- nursing leaders should have social standing
Nursing vs medicine - Correct answer ✔✔ - nursing focuses on caring for the patient as a whole
- medicine deals with diagnosis and treatment of disease
Nursing traditions - Correct answer ✔✔ - pin
- cap
- uniform
- ceremony
image of nursing today - Correct answer ✔✔ viewed as a critical issue due to nurse shortage
purpose of nursing terminology and classification systems and how do they benefit nursing?
SATA
A. to classify disease processes in nursing
B. to compare clinical outcomes across settings
, C. to provide a common means of communication
D. to manage information in an electronic format
E. to guide evidenced-based clinical decisions
F. to retrieve information for research - Correct answer ✔✔ B, C, D, E and F
Why is the image of nursing important for nurses? - Correct answer ✔✔ influences the attitudes
of others about nursing
what is the difference between NIC and NOC? - Correct answer ✔✔ interventions vs outcomes
Most rapidly growing areas of nursing - Correct answer ✔✔ advanced practice
Continuing education can be achieved through - Correct answer ✔✔ - classes
- seminars
- workshops
- conferences
staying current in practice is critical to safe client care
changes occurring in nurse education - Correct answer ✔✔ - more emphasis on articulation and
career ladder programs
- shift in educational settings from acute care facilities to community-based experiences
no change has affected nursing education as greatly as has... - Correct answer ✔✔ the
computer age
what is the purpose of continuing education? SATA
STUDY GUIDE & PRACTICE TEST 2026/2027
Florence Nightingale - Correct answer ✔✔ - changed form and direction of nursing
- established nursing as respectable field
- Crimean War: greatly decreased mortality rates among sick and wounded
Flo's major project after war - Correct answer ✔✔ - Construct hospitals
- Improve basic hygiene
- Improve public health measures
Flo focused on - Correct answer ✔✔ - cleanliness
- wholesome food
- fresh air
- separation of people from garbage and sewage (living environments and hospital construction)
Flo wrote about - Correct answer ✔✔ - hospitals
- sanitation
- health
- health statistics (created first pie chart)
- nursing and nursing education
Flo's schools: basic principles - Correct answer ✔✔ - nurses being trained in teaching hospitals
associated with medical schools
- nurses were selected carefully and resided in nurses' houses designed to encourage discipline
and form character
,- school matron had final authority in curriculum, living arrangements and all other aspects of
school
- curriculum included both theory and practical experience
- teachers paid for instruction
- records kept on all students - who were required to attend lectures, take quizzes, write papers
and keep diaries
Flo believed nurses should - Correct answer ✔✔ - spend time caring for patients, not cleaning
- continue learning throughout their lifetime and not be stagnant
- be intelligent and use that intelligence to improve the conditions of their patients
- nursing leaders should have social standing
Nursing vs medicine - Correct answer ✔✔ - nursing focuses on caring for the patient as a whole
- medicine deals with diagnosis and treatment of disease
Nursing traditions - Correct answer ✔✔ - pin
- cap
- uniform
- ceremony
image of nursing today - Correct answer ✔✔ viewed as a critical issue due to nurse shortage
purpose of nursing terminology and classification systems and how do they benefit nursing?
SATA
A. to classify disease processes in nursing
B. to compare clinical outcomes across settings
, C. to provide a common means of communication
D. to manage information in an electronic format
E. to guide evidenced-based clinical decisions
F. to retrieve information for research - Correct answer ✔✔ B, C, D, E and F
Why is the image of nursing important for nurses? - Correct answer ✔✔ influences the attitudes
of others about nursing
what is the difference between NIC and NOC? - Correct answer ✔✔ interventions vs outcomes
Most rapidly growing areas of nursing - Correct answer ✔✔ advanced practice
Continuing education can be achieved through - Correct answer ✔✔ - classes
- seminars
- workshops
- conferences
staying current in practice is critical to safe client care
changes occurring in nurse education - Correct answer ✔✔ - more emphasis on articulation and
career ladder programs
- shift in educational settings from acute care facilities to community-based experiences
no change has affected nursing education as greatly as has... - Correct answer ✔✔ the
computer age
what is the purpose of continuing education? SATA
