NUR-274 CHAPTER 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | NUR-274 CHAPTER
1 STUDY GUIDE & PRACTICE TEST 2026/2027
Characteristics of professions - Correct answer ✔✔ 1. Body of specialized knowledge(B)
2. Systemic body of knowledge (S)
3. Education in institutions (E)
4. Control of policy, autonomy, and activity (A)
5. Code of ethics (C)
6. Commitment for life (C)
7. Service to the public (S)
Florence Nightingale's titles: - Correct answer ✔✔ -Superintendent of the EST. for gentlewomen
during illness
-National hero in England
-Mother of Nursing/ Founder
Florence Nightingale's beliefs about nursing: - Correct answer ✔✔ -Care not clean
-Continue learning throughout life & don't become stagnant
-Nurses should be intelligent & use intelligence to benefit the patient
-Leaders should have social standing
Florence Nightingale's nursing education principles: - Correct answer ✔✔ - Trained in hospitals
with medical schools
- Careful selection of people*
- Nurses live in nurse homes/dorm
- School matron has final authority in: curriculum, living arrangements & everything pertaining
to the school.
, - Curriculum included: theory and practice*
- Teachers paid for instruction
- Records kept on students via lectures, papers, quiz/tests & diaries
Lavinia Dock - Correct answer ✔✔ One of the early graduates of the first trio of schools
modeled after the Nightingale model
International nurses week - Correct answer ✔✔ Celebrated on the week Florence Nightingale
was born
Dr. Valentine Seaman - Correct answer ✔✔ -Said to have initiated the first system of instruction
for nurses at New York Hospital.
American Medical Association - Correct answer ✔✔ A committee to study training issues for
nurses in response to the impetus given to nursing during the Civil War in 1869
Sam Gross - Correct answer ✔✔ -ID'd the best ways nursing schools should be structured (with
hospitals having schools)
- Chairman of committee to study this
Early schools characteristics - Correct answer ✔✔ 1. Military and religious influence
2. RN's are obedient and yield to superiors
3. 21 yr old avg. (single female)
4. Probationary period in 1st few weeks- clean and do sterile work
5. Rigid rules that are unforgiving so nurses would be honest, obedient & passive/devoted
6. Should be unselfless nurses and think only of others
7. Apprenticeship style- 7 days/wk working long days and taking p.m. classes
8. No standardization or accredited schools
1 STUDY GUIDE & PRACTICE TEST 2026/2027
Characteristics of professions - Correct answer ✔✔ 1. Body of specialized knowledge(B)
2. Systemic body of knowledge (S)
3. Education in institutions (E)
4. Control of policy, autonomy, and activity (A)
5. Code of ethics (C)
6. Commitment for life (C)
7. Service to the public (S)
Florence Nightingale's titles: - Correct answer ✔✔ -Superintendent of the EST. for gentlewomen
during illness
-National hero in England
-Mother of Nursing/ Founder
Florence Nightingale's beliefs about nursing: - Correct answer ✔✔ -Care not clean
-Continue learning throughout life & don't become stagnant
-Nurses should be intelligent & use intelligence to benefit the patient
-Leaders should have social standing
Florence Nightingale's nursing education principles: - Correct answer ✔✔ - Trained in hospitals
with medical schools
- Careful selection of people*
- Nurses live in nurse homes/dorm
- School matron has final authority in: curriculum, living arrangements & everything pertaining
to the school.
, - Curriculum included: theory and practice*
- Teachers paid for instruction
- Records kept on students via lectures, papers, quiz/tests & diaries
Lavinia Dock - Correct answer ✔✔ One of the early graduates of the first trio of schools
modeled after the Nightingale model
International nurses week - Correct answer ✔✔ Celebrated on the week Florence Nightingale
was born
Dr. Valentine Seaman - Correct answer ✔✔ -Said to have initiated the first system of instruction
for nurses at New York Hospital.
American Medical Association - Correct answer ✔✔ A committee to study training issues for
nurses in response to the impetus given to nursing during the Civil War in 1869
Sam Gross - Correct answer ✔✔ -ID'd the best ways nursing schools should be structured (with
hospitals having schools)
- Chairman of committee to study this
Early schools characteristics - Correct answer ✔✔ 1. Military and religious influence
2. RN's are obedient and yield to superiors
3. 21 yr old avg. (single female)
4. Probationary period in 1st few weeks- clean and do sterile work
5. Rigid rules that are unforgiving so nurses would be honest, obedient & passive/devoted
6. Should be unselfless nurses and think only of others
7. Apprenticeship style- 7 days/wk working long days and taking p.m. classes
8. No standardization or accredited schools
