Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Illness - CORRECT ANSWER - an abnormal process in which aspects if the social,
emotional, or intellectual conditions and functions of a person are diminished or impaired
What were hospitals called in the nineteenth century - CORRECT ANSWER - Pest houses
Babylonians - CORRECT ANSWER - were well advanced but war caused increased
illness and were usually men
Ancient Hebrews - CORRECT ANSWER - attributed Illness to gods wrath and had health,
dietary, and hygiene practices.
Who believed in the separation of dairy and meat and also careful slaughtering and inspection of
meat? - CORRECT ANSWER - Ancient Hebrews
Who would burn infected garments, isolation and scrubbing of the sick's home? - CORRECT
ANSWER - the Jews
Where would the nurses care for the sick? - CORRECT ANSWER - in the patients home
Ancient Egyptians - CORRECT ANSWER - Learned the organs and identified about 250
diseases
Who developed multiple drugs and surgeries and also learned how to take pulses, bandage,
splints and catheters? - CORRECT ANSWER - Ancient Egyptians
Who established hospitals for the sick? - CORRECT ANSWER - Ancient Indians
, Who established temples(hospitals) for rest and restoration and also had religious influences such
as a prayer? - CORRECT ANSWER - Ancient Greeks
Who is the father of medicine? - CORRECT ANSWER - Hippocrates
Who focused primarily on public health and emphasized on care for the poor, sick, wounded and
the children? - CORRECT ANSWER - Early Christians
Who invented the visiting nurse who attended the sick and the poor in their homes? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Phoebe
Who provided the first free hospital? - CORRECT ANSWER - Fabiola
Where was the first free hospital located? - CORRECT ANSWER - In Rome in AD 390
Who established the first nursing school? - CORRECT ANSWER - Lutheran order of
deaconesses
Who became the first superintendent of a charity hospitals for ill governesses? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Florence Nightingale
Who became known as the "Lady with the lamp" - CORRECT ANSWER - Florence
Nightingale
Who is credited as the first nursing theorist - CORRECT ANSWER - Florence Nightingale
Who established the Saint Thomas Hospital in London? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Florence Nightingale