NURS 3150 UPDATED Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
From what years was Florence Nightingale alive? - Correct Answer- 1820-1910.
Describe Florence Nightingale's background - Correct Answer- - Victorian era during the
Industrial Revolution.
- Felt nursing was a calling from God.
- High school education, statistics class (parents thought data would help her run a household
better).
- Introduced research during the Crimean war.
- Believed men and people of color should not be nurses.
When did Nightingale open her school of nursing? - Correct Answer- 1860.
Discuss early history of nursing - Correct Answer- - Women assisted in childbirth.
- Hebrews kept records and developed a code of hygiene.
- Greeks sought out - Hippocrates oath (father of medicine).
- Greeks viewed health as a balance between body and mind.
How did nursing progress in the Middle Ages (rise of Christianity)? - Correct Answer- -
Became more structured.
- Church set up a system to care for the sick (Nuns, who lived in worked in convents, cared.
Safe places for women).
- Men in crusades cared for sick and injured.
- Lived in cramped quarters (disease became prevalent).
- Paid for things through pennants (used money to set up churches and hospitals).
What were the major themes of Christianity and the Middle Ages? - Correct Answer-
Altruism and connecting care to religion.
What role did Martin Luther play in nursing? - Correct Answer- - Protestant Reformation v.
, - Renounced the Catholic church causing revenue to decrease greatly.
- Printed out bibles and preached you did not have to pay for God's love.
- Hospitals were now staffed by women from the lower class and women who needed room
and board (served travelers and sometimes the sick).
Describe the development of medicine during the Renaissance and the Enlightenment (18th
century) - Correct Answer- - Smallpox vaccine invented (Jenner).
- Aseptic (Lister - father of surgery).
- Columbus, French, American Revolutions - education became very important.
- Microbiology (Koch - anthrax and cholera).
- Germ theory (Pasteur - pasteurization).
- Psychiatry (Freud).
- Stethoscope and pulse watch.
Describe how the smallpox vaccine was discovered - Correct Answer- Smallpox pustules
were cut from an infected individual and put into the skin of another person.
Describe the development of medicine during the Industrial Revolution - Correct Answer- -
Changes in the workplace, child labor, dangerous machines.
- Nightingale's five essential points in securing the health of homes.
- Crowded cities and workplaces.
What were Nightingale's five essential points in securing the health of homes? - Correct
Answer- - Pure air.
- Pure water.
- Cleanliness.
- Light.
- Effective drainage.
Describe the first schools of nursing - Correct Answer- - Modeled after Nightingales.
- Had to live there, no husband, no dating.
- Devout to God.
and CORRECT Answers
From what years was Florence Nightingale alive? - Correct Answer- 1820-1910.
Describe Florence Nightingale's background - Correct Answer- - Victorian era during the
Industrial Revolution.
- Felt nursing was a calling from God.
- High school education, statistics class (parents thought data would help her run a household
better).
- Introduced research during the Crimean war.
- Believed men and people of color should not be nurses.
When did Nightingale open her school of nursing? - Correct Answer- 1860.
Discuss early history of nursing - Correct Answer- - Women assisted in childbirth.
- Hebrews kept records and developed a code of hygiene.
- Greeks sought out - Hippocrates oath (father of medicine).
- Greeks viewed health as a balance between body and mind.
How did nursing progress in the Middle Ages (rise of Christianity)? - Correct Answer- -
Became more structured.
- Church set up a system to care for the sick (Nuns, who lived in worked in convents, cared.
Safe places for women).
- Men in crusades cared for sick and injured.
- Lived in cramped quarters (disease became prevalent).
- Paid for things through pennants (used money to set up churches and hospitals).
What were the major themes of Christianity and the Middle Ages? - Correct Answer-
Altruism and connecting care to religion.
What role did Martin Luther play in nursing? - Correct Answer- - Protestant Reformation v.
, - Renounced the Catholic church causing revenue to decrease greatly.
- Printed out bibles and preached you did not have to pay for God's love.
- Hospitals were now staffed by women from the lower class and women who needed room
and board (served travelers and sometimes the sick).
Describe the development of medicine during the Renaissance and the Enlightenment (18th
century) - Correct Answer- - Smallpox vaccine invented (Jenner).
- Aseptic (Lister - father of surgery).
- Columbus, French, American Revolutions - education became very important.
- Microbiology (Koch - anthrax and cholera).
- Germ theory (Pasteur - pasteurization).
- Psychiatry (Freud).
- Stethoscope and pulse watch.
Describe how the smallpox vaccine was discovered - Correct Answer- Smallpox pustules
were cut from an infected individual and put into the skin of another person.
Describe the development of medicine during the Industrial Revolution - Correct Answer- -
Changes in the workplace, child labor, dangerous machines.
- Nightingale's five essential points in securing the health of homes.
- Crowded cities and workplaces.
What were Nightingale's five essential points in securing the health of homes? - Correct
Answer- - Pure air.
- Pure water.
- Cleanliness.
- Light.
- Effective drainage.
Describe the first schools of nursing - Correct Answer- - Modeled after Nightingales.
- Had to live there, no husband, no dating.
- Devout to God.
