NUR 2995 Quiz 1 Study Guide – Wayne State University Practice Questions &
Exam Review 2026
why is it important to look at the history of nursing? - correct answer ✔✔Nursing's history
provides a framework for understanding how nursing is practiced today and societal trends that
shape the profession
which is an example of why it is important to look at the history of nursing? - correct answer
✔✔*the shift from Paternalism to Professionalism:
○ Nurses in the past were trained assistants with religious ties (nurses are angels) but now are
highly educated individuals (professionals)
○ In the past, healthcare was guided by superstitious beliefs, illness was viewed as a curse, and
rituals/sacrifices were commons
Themes in the history of nursing - correct answer ✔✔○ Move from a role based on family and
religious ties, and the need to provide comfort and care, to an educated person holding a
healthcare system together ○ Move from hospital nursing to university training
○ View that nurses are angels of mercy rather than well-educated professionals
what were the two biggest influences in nursing history? - correct answer ✔✔war and
sanitation
Describe characteristics of the nurse-patient relationship - correct answer ✔✔Nursing is the
protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury,
facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human
response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and
populations
● Defining nursing and expressing the relationships between primary nursing actions and
anticipated outcomes is the essence of theory based practice
, ● Nightingale believed the nurse's role was primarily to facilitate adaptation by providing
patients with what they needed to encourage their own natural reparative processes and
diminish suffering.
Which are characteristics of the nurse-patient relationship? - correct answer ✔✔the nurse
should be open minded and aware of patients with different ethnic, racial, religious and political
backgrounds as well different sexual orientation.
Different Values in nursing are: - correct answer ✔✔● Humans manifest an essential unity of
mind, body, and spirit.
● Human experience is contextually and culturally defined.
● Health and illness are human experiences. The presence of illness does not preclude health,
nor does optimal health preclude illness.
● These values and assumptions apply whether the recipient of professional nursing care is an
individual, family, group, community, or population.
Describe the three definitions of "nursing" from the class lecture slide - correct answer ✔✔●
"Putting the patient in the best condition of nature to act upon him" -Nightingale
● "Nursing encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, groups
and communities, sick or well and in all settings" International Council of Nurses (ICN)
● Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of
illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and
treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups,
communities, and populations (ANA)
what is the MOST important definition for nursing from the american nursing association? -
correct answer ✔✔Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and
abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through
the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals,
families, groups, communities, and populations
Exam Review 2026
why is it important to look at the history of nursing? - correct answer ✔✔Nursing's history
provides a framework for understanding how nursing is practiced today and societal trends that
shape the profession
which is an example of why it is important to look at the history of nursing? - correct answer
✔✔*the shift from Paternalism to Professionalism:
○ Nurses in the past were trained assistants with religious ties (nurses are angels) but now are
highly educated individuals (professionals)
○ In the past, healthcare was guided by superstitious beliefs, illness was viewed as a curse, and
rituals/sacrifices were commons
Themes in the history of nursing - correct answer ✔✔○ Move from a role based on family and
religious ties, and the need to provide comfort and care, to an educated person holding a
healthcare system together ○ Move from hospital nursing to university training
○ View that nurses are angels of mercy rather than well-educated professionals
what were the two biggest influences in nursing history? - correct answer ✔✔war and
sanitation
Describe characteristics of the nurse-patient relationship - correct answer ✔✔Nursing is the
protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury,
facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human
response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and
populations
● Defining nursing and expressing the relationships between primary nursing actions and
anticipated outcomes is the essence of theory based practice
, ● Nightingale believed the nurse's role was primarily to facilitate adaptation by providing
patients with what they needed to encourage their own natural reparative processes and
diminish suffering.
Which are characteristics of the nurse-patient relationship? - correct answer ✔✔the nurse
should be open minded and aware of patients with different ethnic, racial, religious and political
backgrounds as well different sexual orientation.
Different Values in nursing are: - correct answer ✔✔● Humans manifest an essential unity of
mind, body, and spirit.
● Human experience is contextually and culturally defined.
● Health and illness are human experiences. The presence of illness does not preclude health,
nor does optimal health preclude illness.
● These values and assumptions apply whether the recipient of professional nursing care is an
individual, family, group, community, or population.
Describe the three definitions of "nursing" from the class lecture slide - correct answer ✔✔●
"Putting the patient in the best condition of nature to act upon him" -Nightingale
● "Nursing encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, groups
and communities, sick or well and in all settings" International Council of Nurses (ICN)
● Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of
illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and
treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups,
communities, and populations (ANA)
what is the MOST important definition for nursing from the american nursing association? -
correct answer ✔✔Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and
abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through
the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals,
families, groups, communities, and populations
