NUR 106 Exam Prep | Complete Study Set
During Florence Nightingale's time, women typically were involved in what type of work or activity? -
ANSWER-✔✔They did not work outside of the home
What was the first war that Florence Nightingale was involved in? - ANSWER-✔✔crimean war
3. What organization represents all RNs in the United States? - ANSWER-✔✔American Nurses
Association. (ANA)
4. What is the International Honor Society for Nursing - ANSWER-✔✔Sigma Theta Tau
5. Who was Dorthea Dix? - ANSWER-✔✔improved conditions for the mentally ill and was a union
superintendent of Female Nurses in Civil War (
6. Who was Linda Richards? - ANSWER-✔✔Americas "first trained nurse" she was a graduate of the new
england hospital program and spent most of her career moving from hospital to hospital in a continual
improvement campaign. she created the first individual patient record
7. What three individuals started the Jefferson Street Mission? - ANSWER-✔✔Mary Brewster, Lavinia
Dock, and Lillian Wald
8. What did the Jefferson Street Mission later become named? - ANSWER-✔✔The henry street
settlement
, 9. Who was Mary Mahoney? Adelaid Nutting? Clara Barton - ANSWER-✔✔mary mahoney was the first
professional black nurse in america.
adelaide nutting was the first professor of nursing
clara barton was the founder of the US red cross and civil war nurse, she organized a program for
locating missing meant in action.
10. Who was Ignaz Semmelweis? - ANSWER-✔✔A doctor working in the OB ward of Vienna General
Hospital in Austria in 1847. He noticed that nearly 20% of the women under his care in "Division I" of the
hospital died shortly after childbirth. He traced this back to him and his colleagues not washing their
hands after performing autopsies.
11. Did Ignaz Semmelweis receive rightful recognition from his colleagues? - ANSWER-✔✔no
12. Was organized religion and/or military establishments linked with care of the sick? - ANSWER-
✔✔Yes
13. Who was Margaret Sanger? - ANSWER-✔✔practiced nursing until 1912, when she left the profession
in order to devote her life to educating women about birth control- specifically unwanted pregnancies to
reduce the number of abortions
14. What are the characteristics of a profession? - ANSWER-✔✔autonomy, responsibility and
accountability
15. What role should each nurse take to improve the image of nursing in the community - ANSWER-
✔✔Do not let interprofessional or intraprofessional competition and antagonism from the past drive
the present and future, integrate their work to provide the best care, acknowledge that they share a
common goal: quality patient care, recognize interdependence, share responsibility and accountability
for patient care outcomes, recognize that collegial relationships are safe, and handle conflict in a
positive manner
During Florence Nightingale's time, women typically were involved in what type of work or activity? -
ANSWER-✔✔They did not work outside of the home
What was the first war that Florence Nightingale was involved in? - ANSWER-✔✔crimean war
3. What organization represents all RNs in the United States? - ANSWER-✔✔American Nurses
Association. (ANA)
4. What is the International Honor Society for Nursing - ANSWER-✔✔Sigma Theta Tau
5. Who was Dorthea Dix? - ANSWER-✔✔improved conditions for the mentally ill and was a union
superintendent of Female Nurses in Civil War (
6. Who was Linda Richards? - ANSWER-✔✔Americas "first trained nurse" she was a graduate of the new
england hospital program and spent most of her career moving from hospital to hospital in a continual
improvement campaign. she created the first individual patient record
7. What three individuals started the Jefferson Street Mission? - ANSWER-✔✔Mary Brewster, Lavinia
Dock, and Lillian Wald
8. What did the Jefferson Street Mission later become named? - ANSWER-✔✔The henry street
settlement
, 9. Who was Mary Mahoney? Adelaid Nutting? Clara Barton - ANSWER-✔✔mary mahoney was the first
professional black nurse in america.
adelaide nutting was the first professor of nursing
clara barton was the founder of the US red cross and civil war nurse, she organized a program for
locating missing meant in action.
10. Who was Ignaz Semmelweis? - ANSWER-✔✔A doctor working in the OB ward of Vienna General
Hospital in Austria in 1847. He noticed that nearly 20% of the women under his care in "Division I" of the
hospital died shortly after childbirth. He traced this back to him and his colleagues not washing their
hands after performing autopsies.
11. Did Ignaz Semmelweis receive rightful recognition from his colleagues? - ANSWER-✔✔no
12. Was organized religion and/or military establishments linked with care of the sick? - ANSWER-
✔✔Yes
13. Who was Margaret Sanger? - ANSWER-✔✔practiced nursing until 1912, when she left the profession
in order to devote her life to educating women about birth control- specifically unwanted pregnancies to
reduce the number of abortions
14. What are the characteristics of a profession? - ANSWER-✔✔autonomy, responsibility and
accountability
15. What role should each nurse take to improve the image of nursing in the community - ANSWER-
✔✔Do not let interprofessional or intraprofessional competition and antagonism from the past drive
the present and future, integrate their work to provide the best care, acknowledge that they share a
common goal: quality patient care, recognize interdependence, share responsibility and accountability
for patient care outcomes, recognize that collegial relationships are safe, and handle conflict in a
positive manner
