Foundations of Professional Nursing Exam 1
1. What are all of the NOF core competencies Correct Answer Evidence-
based practice Quality improvement
Safety
Teamwork & collaboration
Communication
Information & technology
Systems-based practice
Leadership
Professionalism
Patient-centered care
2. What was the first class to graduate without uniform Correct Answer ULowell
3. Primitive beliefs Correct Answer soul as separate entity, spirits caused illness
4. Hindi Correct Answer Hygiene linked to health
Nursing interventions became basis for holistic nursing practice
5. Egypt Correct Answer Derived therapies from plants, animals, minerals
6. India Correct Answer Qualification of nurse
-knowledge of drug preparation
-cleverness
-devotion to patients
-purity of body and mind
7. Babylonians Correct Answer First sliding scale for payment
8. China Correct Answer Balance of energy
-/+ or yin/yang Principles of physical
,examination
-look, listen, ask ,feel
9. Persia Correct Answer Beautiful hospitals with specialized wards
10. Palestine Correct Answer Natural cures and outlines for food inspection, vital
statistic records, infectious disease quarantine followed by fumigation
11. Greece- hippocrates Correct Answer Outlined role of physicians, set
standards for bathing, bandaging, other cures
12. Rome Correct Answer Health
restored by Gods Care reserved for
soldiers
13. Northern Europe Correct
Answer Use of herbs "White and
black magic"
14. Roman Matrons (AD 1-500) Correct Answer Earliest nurses were
church deaconesses Phoebe Correct Answer mother of visiting nursing
First hospitals, shelters, hospices, asylums, nursing hospitals
15. Advances in Greece (AD 1-500) Correct Answer Aretaeus
-Introduction of cleanliness, skin care, mouth care, pain control, care for febrile and
excitable patients
, -Use of music to soothe
-First maternity hospital, home for dying
16. Nursing in the middle ages (500-1500) Correct Answer Monks, Nuns
jointly cared for sick Hildegarde
-wrote books that contained accurate physiology of reproductive, circulatory, ner- vou
system
The crusades and nursing knights Religious
orders of nursing for women
-structured approach to care of ill
-vows of poverty, chastity, obedience
-greed, epidemic led to depletion of resources
17. The establishment of nursing in Europe, England, and the New world
(1500-1819) Correct Answer Hospitals removed from church governess
First required white uniform
-eventually changed to black dress, white apron, white cap
Control of hospitals became responsibility of cities
Overcrowding, long work hours
First jesuits hospital opened
The hospital of the immaculate conception
-Treatment consisted of superstition, prayer
1700s brought hospital reform
18. 1820-1917 Movement of nursing to a respectable profession Correct
Answer Philadelphia Dispensary established
-focused on disease prevention
Founding, establishment of residential insane asylum, hospitals, visiting nurse pro-
1. What are all of the NOF core competencies Correct Answer Evidence-
based practice Quality improvement
Safety
Teamwork & collaboration
Communication
Information & technology
Systems-based practice
Leadership
Professionalism
Patient-centered care
2. What was the first class to graduate without uniform Correct Answer ULowell
3. Primitive beliefs Correct Answer soul as separate entity, spirits caused illness
4. Hindi Correct Answer Hygiene linked to health
Nursing interventions became basis for holistic nursing practice
5. Egypt Correct Answer Derived therapies from plants, animals, minerals
6. India Correct Answer Qualification of nurse
-knowledge of drug preparation
-cleverness
-devotion to patients
-purity of body and mind
7. Babylonians Correct Answer First sliding scale for payment
8. China Correct Answer Balance of energy
-/+ or yin/yang Principles of physical
,examination
-look, listen, ask ,feel
9. Persia Correct Answer Beautiful hospitals with specialized wards
10. Palestine Correct Answer Natural cures and outlines for food inspection, vital
statistic records, infectious disease quarantine followed by fumigation
11. Greece- hippocrates Correct Answer Outlined role of physicians, set
standards for bathing, bandaging, other cures
12. Rome Correct Answer Health
restored by Gods Care reserved for
soldiers
13. Northern Europe Correct
Answer Use of herbs "White and
black magic"
14. Roman Matrons (AD 1-500) Correct Answer Earliest nurses were
church deaconesses Phoebe Correct Answer mother of visiting nursing
First hospitals, shelters, hospices, asylums, nursing hospitals
15. Advances in Greece (AD 1-500) Correct Answer Aretaeus
-Introduction of cleanliness, skin care, mouth care, pain control, care for febrile and
excitable patients
, -Use of music to soothe
-First maternity hospital, home for dying
16. Nursing in the middle ages (500-1500) Correct Answer Monks, Nuns
jointly cared for sick Hildegarde
-wrote books that contained accurate physiology of reproductive, circulatory, ner- vou
system
The crusades and nursing knights Religious
orders of nursing for women
-structured approach to care of ill
-vows of poverty, chastity, obedience
-greed, epidemic led to depletion of resources
17. The establishment of nursing in Europe, England, and the New world
(1500-1819) Correct Answer Hospitals removed from church governess
First required white uniform
-eventually changed to black dress, white apron, white cap
Control of hospitals became responsibility of cities
Overcrowding, long work hours
First jesuits hospital opened
The hospital of the immaculate conception
-Treatment consisted of superstition, prayer
1700s brought hospital reform
18. 1820-1917 Movement of nursing to a respectable profession Correct
Answer Philadelphia Dispensary established
-focused on disease prevention
Founding, establishment of residential insane asylum, hospitals, visiting nurse pro-
