Chapter 1 Fundamental Concepts and Skills for
Nursing
1. Florence Nightingale:Right answer: Improved ventilation,
sanitation, and nutrition. Reduced death rate from 60% to 1% due to
her findings.
Opened first nursing school outside a hospital in 1860.
Made rounds at night to the soldier carrying her oil lamp which then became symbol
for nursing.
2. Clara Barton: Right answer: Founded the
American Red Cross. Took volunteers into field
hospitals of both armies.
3. Dorothea Dix: Right answer: Organized woman to provide nursing care to
soldiers which these workers were similar to CNA's of today.
4. Mary E. Mahoney: Right answer: Promoted fair treatment of
African Americans. First African American graduated nurse.
5. Lillian Wald: Right answer: She took nursing out into the community, and in
1893, she and Mary Brewster established The Henry Street Settlement.
6. Nursing Process (A.D.P.I.E): Right answer:
Assessment (take vitals) Diagnose
Plan
Treatment (interventions)
Evaluate
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, 7. Roles of the LPN:
Rightanswer: To give care To
educate
To collaborate
To manage
8. Main levels of healthcare: Right answer: Preventative/Primary (preventing
sickeness by wash- ing hands)
Secondary (ER trip, mammogram)
Tertiary (LTC facility, rehab, chemo)
9. Goals in Nursing: Right answer:
Promoting wellness Preventing Illness
Facilitate coping
Restoring health
10. Young Woman's Club Assosciation (YWCA): Right answer: Started first
official school for LPN and this was a 3 month course.
11. Roles as a Nurse: Right
answer: To give Care To educate
To collaborate
To delegate tasks
12. Nurse Theory: Right answer: Term given to the body of knowledge that is
used to support nurse practice
-Nursing Practice
-Idea
-research
-Theory
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Nursing
1. Florence Nightingale:Right answer: Improved ventilation,
sanitation, and nutrition. Reduced death rate from 60% to 1% due to
her findings.
Opened first nursing school outside a hospital in 1860.
Made rounds at night to the soldier carrying her oil lamp which then became symbol
for nursing.
2. Clara Barton: Right answer: Founded the
American Red Cross. Took volunteers into field
hospitals of both armies.
3. Dorothea Dix: Right answer: Organized woman to provide nursing care to
soldiers which these workers were similar to CNA's of today.
4. Mary E. Mahoney: Right answer: Promoted fair treatment of
African Americans. First African American graduated nurse.
5. Lillian Wald: Right answer: She took nursing out into the community, and in
1893, she and Mary Brewster established The Henry Street Settlement.
6. Nursing Process (A.D.P.I.E): Right answer:
Assessment (take vitals) Diagnose
Plan
Treatment (interventions)
Evaluate
1/5
, 7. Roles of the LPN:
Rightanswer: To give care To
educate
To collaborate
To manage
8. Main levels of healthcare: Right answer: Preventative/Primary (preventing
sickeness by wash- ing hands)
Secondary (ER trip, mammogram)
Tertiary (LTC facility, rehab, chemo)
9. Goals in Nursing: Right answer:
Promoting wellness Preventing Illness
Facilitate coping
Restoring health
10. Young Woman's Club Assosciation (YWCA): Right answer: Started first
official school for LPN and this was a 3 month course.
11. Roles as a Nurse: Right
answer: To give Care To educate
To collaborate
To delegate tasks
12. Nurse Theory: Right answer: Term given to the body of knowledge that is
used to support nurse practice
-Nursing Practice
-Idea
-research
-Theory
2/5
