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Chapter: 1
Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Coordinated Care
Cognitive Level: Remember
Integrated Process: Caring
Objective: 2, 3
Page and header: 3, The Nightingale School
1. Which of Florence Nightingale’s nursing principles is still practiced today?
A) The nurse is tasked with maintaining a clean and healthy environment.
B) The nurse’s role is entirely dictated by the physician’s instructions.
C) The nurse’s main duty is to provide compassionate, hands-on care to patients.
D) The nurse operates as a fully autonomous healthcare professional.
Ans: C
Feedback:
Florence Nightingale believed that nursing was to put the client in the best condition
for nature to act on the client. Sanitary conditions and cleanliness are vital to
recovery, which maintains health and supports recuperation. The nurse must work as
a team member. While the physician’s orders form the framework for individual
nursing care, the nurse is required to exercise discretion when applying them to the
client.
Format: Multiple Choice
Chapter: 1
Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Coordinated Care
Cognitive Level: Remember
Difficulty: Moderate
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 1
Page and header: 2, Roman Matrons
A) Created inns and hospitals to serve pilgrims.
B) Became the first deaconess and practiced as a visiting nurse.
C) Founded the first facility focused on care for the elderly.
D) Inspired the naming of Rome’s first free hospital in 390 AD.
Ans: B
Feedback:
,Phoebe was the first deaconess and visiting nurse. Saint Paula established inns and
hospitals for pilgrims. Fabiola was the namesake of the first free hospital in Rome in
390 AD. Saint Helena established the first gerontological facility.
Format: Multiple Choice
Chapter: 1
Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Coordinated Care
Cognitive Level: Remember
Difficulty: Moderate
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 1
Page and header: 2, Roman Matrons
3. What contribution did Roman Matron Saint Marcella make to the origins of
nursing?
A) Set up inns and hospitals to aid pilgrims.
B) Served as the first deaconess and visiting nurse.
C) Became the first to formally instruct others in nursing skills.
D) Lent her name to Rome’s first free hospital, established in 390 AD.
Ans: C
Feedback:
Saint Marcella converted her beautiful home into a monastery, where she taught
nursing skills. She is considered the first nursing educator. Phoebe was the first
deaconess and visiting nurse. Saint Paula established inns and hospitals for pilgrims.
Fabiola was the namesake of the first free hospital in Rome in 390 AD.
Format: Multiple Choice
Chapter: 1
Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Coordinated Care
Cognitive Level: Remember
Difficulty: Moderate
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 1
Page and header: 2, Monastic and Military Nursing Orders
, A) 460 BC
B) Second century
C) 500 BC
D) First century
Ans: D
Feedback:
Beginning in the first century, several monastic orders were established to care for the
sick. By 500 BC, the advanced Greek civilization had begun to acknowledge causes of
disease other than punishment by God or demonic possession. One of the early
outstanding figures in medicine was Hippocrates, born in 460 BC on the Greek island
of Kos. Hippocrates is the acknowledged “Father of Medicine.” During the Crusades,
second century, (1096–1291), female religious orders in northern Europe were nearly
eliminated.
Format: Multiple Select
Chapter: 1
Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Coordinated Care
Cognitive Level: Remember
Difficulty: Moderate
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 5
Page and header: 4, The First Nursing Schools
A) St. Thomas Hospital in London
B) Connecticut Training School in New Haven
C) Kaiserswerth School for Nursing
D) Boston Training School at Massachusetts
E) Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing
Ans: B, D, E
Feedback:
Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing in New York, Connecticut Training School in New
Haven, and Boston Training School at Massachusetts General Hospital were
established on the basis of the Nightingale plan. In 1836, Pastor Theodor Fliedner
established the Kaiserswerth School for Nursing in his parish in Kaiserswerth,
Germany. St. Thomas Hospital was the site of clinical experience for nurses during the
Crimean War.
Format: Multiple Select
Chapter: 1