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LPN/LVN 7th Edition Dahlkemper Test Bank kk kk kk kk kk kk
Chapter 1. Historical Perspectives and Current Trends
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Chapter 1: Historical Perspective and Current Trends
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Multiple Choice kk
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. The nursing student predominantly uses knowledge about the history
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of nursing for what purpose?
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1. To understand the professional choices open kk kk kk kk kk
to the student kk kk
2. To prevent making medication errors in kk kk kk kk kk
practice
3. To determine what geographical area is the kk kk kk kk kk kk
best place to practice kk kk kk
4. To reduce the cost of delivering quality kk kk kk kk kk kk
healthcare
2. The nurse is working in an underdeveloped country and observes
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the natives lighting ritual fires and pounding on primitive drums around the sick
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person to promote recovery. The nurse interprets this behavior as indicating the
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natives believe illness results from what?
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1. Pathogens and genetics kk kk
2. Evil spirits kk
3. Tides and planets kk kk
4. Plants and animals kk kk
3. The person credited with making
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practices and removing the mythical aspect of
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1. Hammurabi
2. Florence Nightingale kk
3. Hippocrates
4. Apollo
4. kkWho served as the first public health nurses, caring for the sick
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1. The Presbyterian Church kk kk
2. Salerno
, 3. Jewish scholars kk
4. Convent deaconesses kk
5. kkWhat is a crucial issue the nurse working in the late
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industrialization era would need to address in order to promote health?
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1. Reducing spread of infection kk kk kk
2. Reducing sedentary lifestyle kk kk
3. Teaching proper use of medications kk kk kk kk
4. Teaching use of car seats kk kk kk kk
6. What types of skills would a nursing student learn while
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attending Kaiserworth Deaconess Institution in 1836?
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1. Administering immunizations kk
2. Assisting in surgery kk kk
3. Washing and changing bed linens kk kk kk kk
4. Developing a plan of care kk kk kk kk
7. The nurse demonstrates Florence Nightingale’s theory of nursing
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with what intervention?
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1. Respecting the patient’s culture and kk kk kk kk
incorporating cultural needs in the plan of kk kk kk kk kk kk kk
care
2. Promoting good health and treating those kk kk kk kk kk
who kk
are ill in a holistic manner kk kk kk kk kk
3. Understanding how to motivate people to kk kk kk kk kk
practice a healthy lifestyle and reduce risks kk kk kk kk kk kk kk
4. Teaching other nurses how to deliver the kk kk kk kk kk kk
highest quality of nursing care. kk kk kk kk
8. kk What action performed by the nurse directly resulted from the
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kk contribution made by Linda Richards?
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1. Using an antiseptic before administering an kk kk kk kk kk
injection kk
2. Exploring the psychosocial needs of the kk kk kk kk kk
patient kk
3. Documenting patient care in the medical kk kk kk kk kk
record
4. Listening to a patient describe his or her kk kk kk kk kk kk kk
condition kk
, 9. After graduating from nursing school, the graduate takes a
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licensure examination as the result of what nurse’s contribution?
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1. Florence Nightingale kk
2. Mary Adelaid Nutting kk kk
3. Lavinia L. Dock kk kk
4. Isabel Hampton Robb kk kk
10. In addition to caring for the sick,
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kk LPN students learn when attending the Ballard
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1. Political advocacy kk
2. Homemaking
3. Communication
4. Carpentry
11. The nurse responds to an alarm on a pulse oximeter and sees the
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patient’s oxygen saturation is reading 38%. The nurse observes the patient, noting
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a respiratory rate of 12 breaths per minute, pink mucous membranes, and easy
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regular respirations.
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The nurse concludes the pulse oximeter is not reading accurately. Whose theory of
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nursing is this nurse demonstrating?
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1. Annie Goodrich kk
2. Lillian D. Wald kk kk
3. Florence Nightingale kk
4. Linda Richards kk
kk 12. What statement describes Florence Nightingale’s beliefs about nursing?
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1. Practicing nurses should be licensed. kk kk kk kk
2. Promotion of good health and treating the kk kk kk kk kk kk
ill kk
are nursing priorities. kk kk
3. Nurses could simultaneously have a career kk kk kk kk kk
and a marriage. kk kk
4. Organisms cause infection. kk kk
kk 13. What was Mary Eliza Mahoney’s contribution to nursing?
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1. She organized the first visiting nurse kk kk kk kk kk
association.