Introduction to professional nursing exam
2025/2026 complete questions with
correct answers||newly revised<new
version>
Affordable Care Act - ANSWER✓The Patient Protection Act and Affordable Care
Act and the Health Care Education Affordability Reconciliation Act.
These laws provide for incremental but progressive change to the way that
Americans gain access to and pay for their health care. The ACA has provided
increased opportunities for nurses: The Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing at the National Academy of
Medicine.
Most common practice setting for RNs - ANSWER✓hospitals
Different levels of nursing education - ANSWER✓ADN
BSN
Degree programs
MSN
DNP
PhD
Who are considered advanced practice nurses - ANSWER✓Nurse practitioners
Clinical nurse specialists
Certified nurse midwives
Certified registered nurse anesthetists
Telehealth - ANSWER✓Use of technology to deliver health-related services and
information, including telemedicine
Nurse entrepreneurs - ANSWER✓Identifies a need and creates a service to meet
the identified need; Enjoy autonomy
, Wage compression - ANSWER✓When new employees require higher starting pay
than the historical norm, causing narrowing of the pay gap between experienced
and new employees
Florence Nightingale - ANSWER✓Established sterile technique during the
Crimean War. Founder of modern nursing. began professional education of
nursing.
Mary Seacole - ANSWER✓Jamaican nurse who was refused the right to work
with Nightingale. Funded her own travel to the Crimea and established a "hotel"
where injured soldiers received care.
Dorothea Dix - ANSWER✓A reformer and pioneer in the movement to treat the
insane as mentally ill, beginning in the 1820's, she was responsible for improving
conditions in jails, poorhouses and insane asylums throughout the U.S. and
Canada. She succeeded in persuading many states to assume responsibility for the
care of the mentally ill. She served as the Superintendant of Nurses for the Union
Army during the Civil War.
Susie King Taylor - ANSWER✓First worked as a laundress but was called on to
assist as a nurse. She is noted for teaching soldiers how to read and write.
Clara Barton - ANSWER✓Nursing pioneer who worked as a copyist in the U.S.
Patent Office, began an independent campaign to provide relief for the soldiers.
Appealed to the nation for supplies of woolen skirts, blankets, towels, lanterns,
camp kettles, and other necessities. She established her own system of distribution
after refusing to enlist in the military nurse corps headed by Dorothea Dix. Set up a
makeshift hospital in Culpepper, Virginia. She gained the title "Angel of the
Battlefield" and founded the American Red Cross.
American Journal of Nursing - ANSWER✓The first edition was published in
October 1900, was a a key event of this decade. Nurse leaders Isabel Hampton
Robb, Mary Adelaide Nutting, Lavinia L. Dock, Sophia Palmer, and Mary E.
Davis were involved heavily. Sophia Palmer was the first appointed editor.
Civil Works Administration - ANSWER✓Nurses participated by providing rural
and school health services. They also took part in specific projects such as
conducting health surveys on communicable disease and nutrition of children.
, Social Security Act of 1935 - ANSWER✓Enhanced the practice of public health
nursing. One of the purposes of the SSA was to strengthen public health services
and to provide medical care for children with disabilities and blind persons.
Hill-Burton Act - ANSWER✓Enacted in 1946, providing funds to construct
hospitals, which led to a surge in the growth of new facilities.
Amendment to Social Security Act - ANSWER✓1965. Established medicare and
medicaid, promising that they would "improve a wide range of health and medical
services for Americans of all ages."
First state to recognize diagnosis and treatment as scope of practice for NPs -
ANSWER✓Idaho in 1971
Vietnam War - ANSWER✓Provided nurses with the opportunity to stretch the
boundaries of the discipline. Mobile hospital units were set up in jungles, where
nurses often worked without supervision of a physician. They performed
tracheostomies and chest tube insertions
HIV Emergence - ANSWER✓The early 1980s was marked by the recognition of
HIV. The HIV/AIDS epidemic changed the landscape of health care
Human Genome Project - ANSWER✓An international collaborative effort to map
and sequence the DNA of the entire human genome.
911 World Trade Center Attack - ANSWER✓
Johnson & Johnson Campaign - ANSWER✓Commercial campaign to promote
nursing career. Major emphasis on caring and compassion which perpetuates the
"angel" image of nurses in the public eye. A second campaign focused more on
technology and knowledge but still did not promote the truth of how educated and
skilled nurses are and that nursing is a true profession.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - ANSWER✓An economic
stimulus bill passed in 2009, in response to the Great Recession, that provided
$787 billion to state and local governments for schools, hospitals, and
, transportation projects. It was one of the largest single packages of government
spending in American history.
The Truth About Nursing - ANSWER✓a nonprofit organization with the mission
to "increase public understanding of the central, front-line role nurses play in
modern health care"
Three major document regarding standards set by profession - ANSWER✓
Collegiality - ANSWER✓
Barriers to Professionalism in Nursing - ANSWER✓Varying levels of preparatory
education
Gender Issues
Historical Influences
External Conflicts
Internal Conflicts
Educational Pathways to becoming a RN - ANSWER✓
External degree programs - ANSWER✓Students attend no classes. Learning is
independent and is assessed through highly standardized and validated
competency-based outcomes assessments, leading to the description "virtual
university". Students are responsible for arranging their own clinical experiences in
accordance with established standards.
Articulated programs - ANSWER✓Articulated programs allow students to move
between programs, stop their education at a certain level, and return later to
complete their training.
Distance learning programs - ANSWER✓are made possible by the expansion of
information and telecommunications technology and allow students to learn in a
variety of settings
Accreditation - ANSWER✓granting approval or belief in a school
Master's Education in Nursing - ANSWER✓
2025/2026 complete questions with
correct answers||newly revised<new
version>
Affordable Care Act - ANSWER✓The Patient Protection Act and Affordable Care
Act and the Health Care Education Affordability Reconciliation Act.
These laws provide for incremental but progressive change to the way that
Americans gain access to and pay for their health care. The ACA has provided
increased opportunities for nurses: The Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing at the National Academy of
Medicine.
Most common practice setting for RNs - ANSWER✓hospitals
Different levels of nursing education - ANSWER✓ADN
BSN
Degree programs
MSN
DNP
PhD
Who are considered advanced practice nurses - ANSWER✓Nurse practitioners
Clinical nurse specialists
Certified nurse midwives
Certified registered nurse anesthetists
Telehealth - ANSWER✓Use of technology to deliver health-related services and
information, including telemedicine
Nurse entrepreneurs - ANSWER✓Identifies a need and creates a service to meet
the identified need; Enjoy autonomy
, Wage compression - ANSWER✓When new employees require higher starting pay
than the historical norm, causing narrowing of the pay gap between experienced
and new employees
Florence Nightingale - ANSWER✓Established sterile technique during the
Crimean War. Founder of modern nursing. began professional education of
nursing.
Mary Seacole - ANSWER✓Jamaican nurse who was refused the right to work
with Nightingale. Funded her own travel to the Crimea and established a "hotel"
where injured soldiers received care.
Dorothea Dix - ANSWER✓A reformer and pioneer in the movement to treat the
insane as mentally ill, beginning in the 1820's, she was responsible for improving
conditions in jails, poorhouses and insane asylums throughout the U.S. and
Canada. She succeeded in persuading many states to assume responsibility for the
care of the mentally ill. She served as the Superintendant of Nurses for the Union
Army during the Civil War.
Susie King Taylor - ANSWER✓First worked as a laundress but was called on to
assist as a nurse. She is noted for teaching soldiers how to read and write.
Clara Barton - ANSWER✓Nursing pioneer who worked as a copyist in the U.S.
Patent Office, began an independent campaign to provide relief for the soldiers.
Appealed to the nation for supplies of woolen skirts, blankets, towels, lanterns,
camp kettles, and other necessities. She established her own system of distribution
after refusing to enlist in the military nurse corps headed by Dorothea Dix. Set up a
makeshift hospital in Culpepper, Virginia. She gained the title "Angel of the
Battlefield" and founded the American Red Cross.
American Journal of Nursing - ANSWER✓The first edition was published in
October 1900, was a a key event of this decade. Nurse leaders Isabel Hampton
Robb, Mary Adelaide Nutting, Lavinia L. Dock, Sophia Palmer, and Mary E.
Davis were involved heavily. Sophia Palmer was the first appointed editor.
Civil Works Administration - ANSWER✓Nurses participated by providing rural
and school health services. They also took part in specific projects such as
conducting health surveys on communicable disease and nutrition of children.
, Social Security Act of 1935 - ANSWER✓Enhanced the practice of public health
nursing. One of the purposes of the SSA was to strengthen public health services
and to provide medical care for children with disabilities and blind persons.
Hill-Burton Act - ANSWER✓Enacted in 1946, providing funds to construct
hospitals, which led to a surge in the growth of new facilities.
Amendment to Social Security Act - ANSWER✓1965. Established medicare and
medicaid, promising that they would "improve a wide range of health and medical
services for Americans of all ages."
First state to recognize diagnosis and treatment as scope of practice for NPs -
ANSWER✓Idaho in 1971
Vietnam War - ANSWER✓Provided nurses with the opportunity to stretch the
boundaries of the discipline. Mobile hospital units were set up in jungles, where
nurses often worked without supervision of a physician. They performed
tracheostomies and chest tube insertions
HIV Emergence - ANSWER✓The early 1980s was marked by the recognition of
HIV. The HIV/AIDS epidemic changed the landscape of health care
Human Genome Project - ANSWER✓An international collaborative effort to map
and sequence the DNA of the entire human genome.
911 World Trade Center Attack - ANSWER✓
Johnson & Johnson Campaign - ANSWER✓Commercial campaign to promote
nursing career. Major emphasis on caring and compassion which perpetuates the
"angel" image of nurses in the public eye. A second campaign focused more on
technology and knowledge but still did not promote the truth of how educated and
skilled nurses are and that nursing is a true profession.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - ANSWER✓An economic
stimulus bill passed in 2009, in response to the Great Recession, that provided
$787 billion to state and local governments for schools, hospitals, and
, transportation projects. It was one of the largest single packages of government
spending in American history.
The Truth About Nursing - ANSWER✓a nonprofit organization with the mission
to "increase public understanding of the central, front-line role nurses play in
modern health care"
Three major document regarding standards set by profession - ANSWER✓
Collegiality - ANSWER✓
Barriers to Professionalism in Nursing - ANSWER✓Varying levels of preparatory
education
Gender Issues
Historical Influences
External Conflicts
Internal Conflicts
Educational Pathways to becoming a RN - ANSWER✓
External degree programs - ANSWER✓Students attend no classes. Learning is
independent and is assessed through highly standardized and validated
competency-based outcomes assessments, leading to the description "virtual
university". Students are responsible for arranging their own clinical experiences in
accordance with established standards.
Articulated programs - ANSWER✓Articulated programs allow students to move
between programs, stop their education at a certain level, and return later to
complete their training.
Distance learning programs - ANSWER✓are made possible by the expansion of
information and telecommunications technology and allow students to learn in a
variety of settings
Accreditation - ANSWER✓granting approval or belief in a school
Master's Education in Nursing - ANSWER✓
