NURS 2300 - Leslie Jennings - Exam 1 2025 Questions and Answers

NURS 2300 - Leslie Jennings - Exam 1
2025 Questions and Answers


Florence Nightingale - --CORRECT ANSWER---Mother of modern nursing

-1st nursing researcher

-Improved supplies

-Sanitation

-Supervised a team of 38 nurses

-Reduced mortality from <40% - <2%

Mary Seacole - --CORRECT ANSWER---Jamaican nurse & business woman

-Greatest black briton

-Same time period as Nightingale but didn't work with her, was rejected b/c of

race

-Expert of cholera

Clara Barton - --CORRECT ANSWER--- Battlefield angel

- Founded the Red Cross



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, Dorothea Dix - --CORRECT ANSWER--- Civil War Superintendent of Union

Army Nurses

- Advocate for mentally ill & prisoners

- Created a training program for women wanting to enlist as wartime nurses

Mary Mahoney - --CORRECT ANSWER--1st African American to graduate from

nursing school

Lillian Wald - --CORRECT ANSWER---Mother of Public Health Nursing

-Founded Henry Street Settlement that focuses on mental and physical health of

impoverished and immigrant families

Mary Breckinridge - --CORRECT ANSWER--- Mother of mid-wife nursing

- Reached impoverished rural mountain families during the Great Depression

Mary Ann Bickerdyke - --CORRECT ANSWER---Made cleanliness a priority

Since 1999, nurses are ______ in ethic and honesty every year except for 2001

(9/11). - --CORRECT ANSWER--#1

_________ of Americans trust, respect, and admire nurses - --CORRECT

ANSWER--95%

A critical thinker is one who... - --CORRECT ANSWER---Raises questions and

problems and formulates them clearly and precisely

-Gathers and assesses relevant information

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