Nursing 102: TEST 2 questions and answers
2025/2026 latest update
Who developed the "Ebers Papyrus"? - answerGeorge Maurice Ebers - 1873
What was the Ebers Papyrus? - answercontained over 700 remedies, and information on circulatory
system
What did the Greek believe health to be the result of? - answerBalance between Mind and Body.
Who is the father of medicine? - answerHippocrates
What was the start of epidemiology? - answerAir, Water, Places
What are the four humors? - answerblood, yellow bile, black bile, phlegm
What are the four elements? - answerearth, air, fire, water
what happened during the Roman Era? - answerRomans surpassed Greeks by education and
evolutionary finds.
Who is the Galen of Pergamum? - answerGreatest Greek physician after Socrates & Greatest Medical
Researcher before 1600's. (transformed trad. healing practice into medical experiments)
What were nurses known as in the Middle Ages/medieval era? - answerDeaconesses
During the Reformation, what were public hospitals known for? - answerfilthy, "place to go die", no
trained/motivated/qualified nurses, difficulty finding working women
what was the role of the nurse seen as during the "Dark Period"? - answermenial, low status, inferior --
often worked by uneducated, women sentenced to jail
, Where was the first true hospital opened? - answerPennsylvania, 1751
what happened during the time of the Industrial Revolution? - answerEverything was growing
(populations, cities); Poor Sanitation, Pests, Ramped Diseases
Why were diseases so ramped during the Industrial Revolution? - answerno education on sanitation or
transmission of pathogens
Who was the developer of Public Health in Great Britain? - answerEdwin Chadwick
What was the Shattuck Report? - answer(by Lemuel Shattuck) Monitoring system to inform public of
food/drug/infectious control/environment safety (LIKE FDA)
Who is the face of Nursing? - answerFlorence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale is the: - answerANGEL OF MERCY
What did Florence Nightingale do? - answerInsisted on better hygiene infield hospitals and founded the
first school of nursing
How did Florence Nightingale decrease mortality rate? - answerClean under beds, hand washing
protocols; provided clean bedding, daily dressing changes, allowing outside for sun and fresh air;
provided more edible and presentable food
What was Florence Nightingale's book called? - answerNursing: What It Is and What It Is Not (77 pp)
How did one get into Nightingale's School of Nursing? - answerHandpicked based on sobriety, honest,
good moral character
What were the TWO focused themes of Nightingale's vision for healthcare? (same vision today) -
answer1- Poverty and how it effects health, educate and teach patients to better care for themselves
2025/2026 latest update
Who developed the "Ebers Papyrus"? - answerGeorge Maurice Ebers - 1873
What was the Ebers Papyrus? - answercontained over 700 remedies, and information on circulatory
system
What did the Greek believe health to be the result of? - answerBalance between Mind and Body.
Who is the father of medicine? - answerHippocrates
What was the start of epidemiology? - answerAir, Water, Places
What are the four humors? - answerblood, yellow bile, black bile, phlegm
What are the four elements? - answerearth, air, fire, water
what happened during the Roman Era? - answerRomans surpassed Greeks by education and
evolutionary finds.
Who is the Galen of Pergamum? - answerGreatest Greek physician after Socrates & Greatest Medical
Researcher before 1600's. (transformed trad. healing practice into medical experiments)
What were nurses known as in the Middle Ages/medieval era? - answerDeaconesses
During the Reformation, what were public hospitals known for? - answerfilthy, "place to go die", no
trained/motivated/qualified nurses, difficulty finding working women
what was the role of the nurse seen as during the "Dark Period"? - answermenial, low status, inferior --
often worked by uneducated, women sentenced to jail
, Where was the first true hospital opened? - answerPennsylvania, 1751
what happened during the time of the Industrial Revolution? - answerEverything was growing
(populations, cities); Poor Sanitation, Pests, Ramped Diseases
Why were diseases so ramped during the Industrial Revolution? - answerno education on sanitation or
transmission of pathogens
Who was the developer of Public Health in Great Britain? - answerEdwin Chadwick
What was the Shattuck Report? - answer(by Lemuel Shattuck) Monitoring system to inform public of
food/drug/infectious control/environment safety (LIKE FDA)
Who is the face of Nursing? - answerFlorence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale is the: - answerANGEL OF MERCY
What did Florence Nightingale do? - answerInsisted on better hygiene infield hospitals and founded the
first school of nursing
How did Florence Nightingale decrease mortality rate? - answerClean under beds, hand washing
protocols; provided clean bedding, daily dressing changes, allowing outside for sun and fresh air;
provided more edible and presentable food
What was Florence Nightingale's book called? - answerNursing: What It Is and What It Is Not (77 pp)
How did one get into Nightingale's School of Nursing? - answerHandpicked based on sobriety, honest,
good moral character
What were the TWO focused themes of Nightingale's vision for healthcare? (same vision today) -
answer1- Poverty and how it effects health, educate and teach patients to better care for themselves
