Test Bank for Timby's Fundamental Nursing Skills and Concepts, 13th Edition
Author:Loretta A Donnelly-Moreno, Barbara K Timby|ISBN:978-1975141769 | Al
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, Fundamental Nursing Skills and Concepts 13th Edition Timby
Test Bank
Chapter 1 Nursing Foundations
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Florence Nightingales contributions to nursing practice and education:
a. are historically important but have no validity for nursing today.
b. were neither recognized nor appreciated in her own time.
c. were a major factor in reducing the death rate in the Crimean War.
d. were limited only to the care of severe traumatic
wounds. ANS: C
By improving sanitation, nutrition ventilation, and handwashing techniques, Florence
Nightingales nurses dramatically reduced the death rate from injuries in the Crimean
War. DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: dm 2 OBJ: Theory #1
TOP: Nursing History KEY: Nursing Process Step: N/A
MSC: NCLEX: N/A
2. Early nursing education and care in the United States:
a. were directed at community health.
b. provided independence for women through education and employment.
c. were an educational model based in institutions of higher learning.
d. have continued to be entirely focused on hospital
nursing. ANS: B
Because of the influence of early nursing leaders, nursing education became more formalized
through apprenticeships in Nightingale schools that offered independence to women
through education and employment.
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, DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: dm 2 OBJ:
Theory #4 TOP: Nursing History KEY: Nursing Process
Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: N/A
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, 3. In order to fulfill the common goals defined by nursing theorists (promote wellness,
prevent illness, facilitate coping, and restore health), the LPN must take on the roles of:
a. caregiver, educator, and collaborator.
b. nursing assistant, delegator, and environmental specialist.
c. medication dispenser, collaborator, and transporter.
d. dietitian, manager, and
housekeeper. ANS: A
In order for the LPN to apply the common goals of nursing, he or she must assume the
roles of caregiver, educator, collaborator, manager, and advocate.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: dm 4 OBJ:
Theory #2 TOP: Art and Science of Nursing KEY: Nursing
Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: N/A
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