PROFESSIONAL NURSING EXAM 1 STUDY
GUIDE TESTED QUESTIONS AND
ACCURATE SOLUTIONS COMPLETE
REVIEW
●● What was the first class to graduate without uniform?
Answer: ULowell
●● Primitive beliefs
Answer: soul as separate entity, spirits caused illness
●● Hindi
Answer: Hygiene linked to health
Nursing interventions became basis for holistic nursing practice
●● Egypt
Answer: Derived therapies from plants, animals, minerals
●● India
Answer: Qualification of nurse
-knowledge of drug preparation
,-cleverness
-devotion to patients
-purity of body and mind
●● Babylonians
Answer: First sliding scale for payment
●● China
Answer: Balance of energy -/+ or yin/yang
Principles of physical examination
-look, listen, ask ,feel
●● Persia
Answer: Beautiful hospitals with specialized wards
●● Palestine
Answer: Natural cures and outlines for food inspection, vital statistic
records, infectious disease quarantine followed by fumigation
●● Greece- hippocrates
Answer: Outlined role of physicians, set standards for bathing,
bandaging, other cures
,●● Rome
Answer: Health restored by Gods
Care reserved for soldiers
●● Northern Europe
Answer: Use of herbs
"White and black magic"
●● Roman Matrons (AD 1-500)
Answer: Earliest nurses were church deaconesses
Phoebe: mother of visiting nursing
First hospitals, shelters, hospices, asylums, nursing hospitals
●● Advances in Greece (AD 1-500)
Answer: Aretaeus
-Introduction of cleanliness, skin care, mouth care, pain control, care for
febrile and excitable patients
-Use of music to soothe
-First maternity hospital, home for dying
●● Nursing in the middle ages (500-1500)
Answer: Monks, Nuns jointly cared for sick
, Hildegarde
-wrote books that contained accurate physiology of reproductive,
circulatory, nervous system
The crusades and nursing knights
Religious orders of nursing for women
-structured approach to care of ill
-vows of poverty, chastity, obedience
-greed, epidemic led to depletion of resources
●● The establishment of nursing in Europe, England, and the New world
(1500-1819)
Answer: Hospitals removed from church governess
First required white uniform
-eventually changed to black dress, white apron, white cap
Control of hospitals became responsibility of cities
Overcrowding, long work hours
First jesuits hospital opened
The hospital of the immaculate conception
-Treatment consisted of superstition, prayer
1700s brought hospital reform
●● 1820-1917 Movement of nursing to a respectable profession
Answer: Philadelphia Dispensary established
GUIDE TESTED QUESTIONS AND
ACCURATE SOLUTIONS COMPLETE
REVIEW
●● What was the first class to graduate without uniform?
Answer: ULowell
●● Primitive beliefs
Answer: soul as separate entity, spirits caused illness
●● Hindi
Answer: Hygiene linked to health
Nursing interventions became basis for holistic nursing practice
●● Egypt
Answer: Derived therapies from plants, animals, minerals
●● India
Answer: Qualification of nurse
-knowledge of drug preparation
,-cleverness
-devotion to patients
-purity of body and mind
●● Babylonians
Answer: First sliding scale for payment
●● China
Answer: Balance of energy -/+ or yin/yang
Principles of physical examination
-look, listen, ask ,feel
●● Persia
Answer: Beautiful hospitals with specialized wards
●● Palestine
Answer: Natural cures and outlines for food inspection, vital statistic
records, infectious disease quarantine followed by fumigation
●● Greece- hippocrates
Answer: Outlined role of physicians, set standards for bathing,
bandaging, other cures
,●● Rome
Answer: Health restored by Gods
Care reserved for soldiers
●● Northern Europe
Answer: Use of herbs
"White and black magic"
●● Roman Matrons (AD 1-500)
Answer: Earliest nurses were church deaconesses
Phoebe: mother of visiting nursing
First hospitals, shelters, hospices, asylums, nursing hospitals
●● Advances in Greece (AD 1-500)
Answer: Aretaeus
-Introduction of cleanliness, skin care, mouth care, pain control, care for
febrile and excitable patients
-Use of music to soothe
-First maternity hospital, home for dying
●● Nursing in the middle ages (500-1500)
Answer: Monks, Nuns jointly cared for sick
, Hildegarde
-wrote books that contained accurate physiology of reproductive,
circulatory, nervous system
The crusades and nursing knights
Religious orders of nursing for women
-structured approach to care of ill
-vows of poverty, chastity, obedience
-greed, epidemic led to depletion of resources
●● The establishment of nursing in Europe, England, and the New world
(1500-1819)
Answer: Hospitals removed from church governess
First required white uniform
-eventually changed to black dress, white apron, white cap
Control of hospitals became responsibility of cities
Overcrowding, long work hours
First jesuits hospital opened
The hospital of the immaculate conception
-Treatment consisted of superstition, prayer
1700s brought hospital reform
●● 1820-1917 Movement of nursing to a respectable profession
Answer: Philadelphia Dispensary established
