PROFESSIONAL NURSING EXAM 1 ACTUAL
TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
●● Florence Nightingale
Answer: *The founder of modern nursing*
Born in 1820, began nurses' training in Germany at age 30
Tended to wounded British soldiers at Scutari Hospital in Turkey during
the *Crimean War*
Reformed British Army Hospitals
Established the first training school for nurses in London.
Wrote a famous book in 1859 called *Notes on Nursing: What it is and
What it is Not*
●● Sairy Gamp
Answer: A Dicken's character
Portrayed that hospitals were a place to die - patients were cared for by
prostitutes, drunks, and convicts
●● Clara Barton
Answer: Founded the Red Cross
,●● Dorothea Dix
Answer: Reformer who was a pioneer in the movement for better
treatment of the mentally ill
●● Mary Eliza Mahoney
Answer: 1st professionally educated African American nurse in the
United States
●● Isabel Hampton Robb
Answer: Founded the National League for Nursing (NLN) and the
American Nurses Association (ANA).
●● Lillian Wald
Answer: Nurse and social activist
Founded the Henry Street Settlement - The first public health nursing
organization
One of the founding members of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
●● Margaret Sanger
Answer: United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and
planned parenthood
●● Lavina Dock
,Answer: Part of the nursing education reform and the women's suffrage
movement
●● Jessie Sleet Scales
Answer: The 1st African American public health nurse
Established the Stillman House, a branch of the Henry Street Settlement
●● Mary Breckinridge
Answer: Founder of the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS)
This service provided the first organized widwifery program in the
United States
●● What was Florence Nightingale's affect on the British Barrack
Hospital Reform?
Answer: She reduced the mortality rate in British hospitals during the
Crimean war by providing food, cleanliness, sunlight, and caring for the
patients.
●● How have wars influenced the profession of nursing?
Answer: It changed the image of nursing to "heroes" and "angels",
strong and noble.
It made people acknowledge the contribution of nursing and
demonstrated the value of care.
, ●● WW2 represented the coming of age for __________ nurses.
Answer: Colored
●● The _____________ _____________ War was the first war that
nurses were asked to volunteer.
Answer: Spanish American
●● Edith Cavell
Answer: Executed in Germany for helping soldiers escape in WW1
●● The sexual revolution began in the ___________.
Answer: 1960's
"Hotlips Hoolihan"
MASH- Movie, TV
●● Nurse Ratched
Answer: Battle Axe Nurse
The 1970s version of Sairy Gamp
●● Negative Contemporary Images of Nursing Today
Answer: Bimbo- Sex Symbol
TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
●● Florence Nightingale
Answer: *The founder of modern nursing*
Born in 1820, began nurses' training in Germany at age 30
Tended to wounded British soldiers at Scutari Hospital in Turkey during
the *Crimean War*
Reformed British Army Hospitals
Established the first training school for nurses in London.
Wrote a famous book in 1859 called *Notes on Nursing: What it is and
What it is Not*
●● Sairy Gamp
Answer: A Dicken's character
Portrayed that hospitals were a place to die - patients were cared for by
prostitutes, drunks, and convicts
●● Clara Barton
Answer: Founded the Red Cross
,●● Dorothea Dix
Answer: Reformer who was a pioneer in the movement for better
treatment of the mentally ill
●● Mary Eliza Mahoney
Answer: 1st professionally educated African American nurse in the
United States
●● Isabel Hampton Robb
Answer: Founded the National League for Nursing (NLN) and the
American Nurses Association (ANA).
●● Lillian Wald
Answer: Nurse and social activist
Founded the Henry Street Settlement - The first public health nursing
organization
One of the founding members of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
●● Margaret Sanger
Answer: United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and
planned parenthood
●● Lavina Dock
,Answer: Part of the nursing education reform and the women's suffrage
movement
●● Jessie Sleet Scales
Answer: The 1st African American public health nurse
Established the Stillman House, a branch of the Henry Street Settlement
●● Mary Breckinridge
Answer: Founder of the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS)
This service provided the first organized widwifery program in the
United States
●● What was Florence Nightingale's affect on the British Barrack
Hospital Reform?
Answer: She reduced the mortality rate in British hospitals during the
Crimean war by providing food, cleanliness, sunlight, and caring for the
patients.
●● How have wars influenced the profession of nursing?
Answer: It changed the image of nursing to "heroes" and "angels",
strong and noble.
It made people acknowledge the contribution of nursing and
demonstrated the value of care.
, ●● WW2 represented the coming of age for __________ nurses.
Answer: Colored
●● The _____________ _____________ War was the first war that
nurses were asked to volunteer.
Answer: Spanish American
●● Edith Cavell
Answer: Executed in Germany for helping soldiers escape in WW1
●● The sexual revolution began in the ___________.
Answer: 1960's
"Hotlips Hoolihan"
MASH- Movie, TV
●● Nurse Ratched
Answer: Battle Axe Nurse
The 1970s version of Sairy Gamp
●● Negative Contemporary Images of Nursing Today
Answer: Bimbo- Sex Symbol
