Test Bank - Role Development in
Professional Nursing Practice,
7th Edition (Masters, 2026),
Chapter 1-15 + Midterm and
Final Exam | All Chapters
Covered 2026/2027
Father of Medicine - answer- Hippocrates
Book by Socrates entitled Air, Water and Places is about ... - answer- the relationship
between humans and the environment
Book by Plato called The Republic is about... - answer- the importance of recreation, a
balanced mind, and body, nutrition and exercise.
The Greeks approach to health - answer- applied rational causes and cures to external
injuries and attributed invisible ailments to spiritual maladies
The greatest Greek physician after Hippocrates - answer- Galen of Pergamum
Galen of Pergamum, the greatest Greek physician after Hippocrates ... - answer- helped
medicine evolve into a science by submitting traditional healing practices to
experimentation
Who came up with the notion of a "mobile war nursing unit" ? - answer- Romans
During the middle ages, who cared for sick women? - answer- deaconesses
During the middle ages, Roman hospitals were... - answer- replaced by civilian hospitals
During the middle ages, deacons and deaconesses cared for the sick in a type of
hospital called... - answer- Diakonia
How was communicable disease handled during the middle ages? - answer- quarantine
practices and religious guidance
, During the reformation (during the renaissance period) nursing evolved in what way? -
answer- Regressed. Current medical system was overthrown and reprobates were
installed as nurses because there were no other options. Nursing was looked down on.
Henry the VIII endowed two hospitals that would eventually house Florence
Nightingale's School of Nursing. These were? - answer- St. Bartholomew's Hospital and
St. Thomas' Hospital
When was the "Dark Period of Nursing"? - answer- between 1500 and 1860
Name of the first hospital in the Americas - answer- Hospital de la Purisima Concepcion
founded by Hernando Cortez in Mexico 1524
First semi-hospital in USA built where, when and for what purpose? - answer-
Manhattan, 1658, care for sick soldiers and slaves
First REAL hospital built in USA? - answer- Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia in
1751
population movement during industrial revolution that brought disease - answer-
overcrowding in the cities
John Stuart Mill lived during the time of Florence Nightingale (1800s) and he fought
for... - answer- popular education, emancipation of women, trade unions, religious
tolerance and humane care of the sick, poor and wounded
Typhus and typhoid fever claimed twice as many lives as the battle of waterloo. These
diseases were a huge problem during which time period? - answer- 1700s
How are infectious diseases spread around the world? - answer- foreign trade and
immigration
What did Edwin Chadwick do? - answer- He wrote the Chadwick Report which revealed
that more than half of children of labor-class workers died by age 5 and laborers lived
only half as long as those of higher classes.
In 1848 the very first board of health in England was established as a result of the
Chadwick Report. It was called? - answer- The General Board of Health for England
Not to be confused with the Chadwick report (British), the Shattuck report did what for
the people of the USA? - answer- provided census details that revealed high infant
mortality rates and high overall population mortality rates. It also provided
recommendations for improvement.
This woman is called the "angel of mercy." - answer- Florence Nightingale
Professional Nursing Practice,
7th Edition (Masters, 2026),
Chapter 1-15 + Midterm and
Final Exam | All Chapters
Covered 2026/2027
Father of Medicine - answer- Hippocrates
Book by Socrates entitled Air, Water and Places is about ... - answer- the relationship
between humans and the environment
Book by Plato called The Republic is about... - answer- the importance of recreation, a
balanced mind, and body, nutrition and exercise.
The Greeks approach to health - answer- applied rational causes and cures to external
injuries and attributed invisible ailments to spiritual maladies
The greatest Greek physician after Hippocrates - answer- Galen of Pergamum
Galen of Pergamum, the greatest Greek physician after Hippocrates ... - answer- helped
medicine evolve into a science by submitting traditional healing practices to
experimentation
Who came up with the notion of a "mobile war nursing unit" ? - answer- Romans
During the middle ages, who cared for sick women? - answer- deaconesses
During the middle ages, Roman hospitals were... - answer- replaced by civilian hospitals
During the middle ages, deacons and deaconesses cared for the sick in a type of
hospital called... - answer- Diakonia
How was communicable disease handled during the middle ages? - answer- quarantine
practices and religious guidance
, During the reformation (during the renaissance period) nursing evolved in what way? -
answer- Regressed. Current medical system was overthrown and reprobates were
installed as nurses because there were no other options. Nursing was looked down on.
Henry the VIII endowed two hospitals that would eventually house Florence
Nightingale's School of Nursing. These were? - answer- St. Bartholomew's Hospital and
St. Thomas' Hospital
When was the "Dark Period of Nursing"? - answer- between 1500 and 1860
Name of the first hospital in the Americas - answer- Hospital de la Purisima Concepcion
founded by Hernando Cortez in Mexico 1524
First semi-hospital in USA built where, when and for what purpose? - answer-
Manhattan, 1658, care for sick soldiers and slaves
First REAL hospital built in USA? - answer- Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia in
1751
population movement during industrial revolution that brought disease - answer-
overcrowding in the cities
John Stuart Mill lived during the time of Florence Nightingale (1800s) and he fought
for... - answer- popular education, emancipation of women, trade unions, religious
tolerance and humane care of the sick, poor and wounded
Typhus and typhoid fever claimed twice as many lives as the battle of waterloo. These
diseases were a huge problem during which time period? - answer- 1700s
How are infectious diseases spread around the world? - answer- foreign trade and
immigration
What did Edwin Chadwick do? - answer- He wrote the Chadwick Report which revealed
that more than half of children of labor-class workers died by age 5 and laborers lived
only half as long as those of higher classes.
In 1848 the very first board of health in England was established as a result of the
Chadwick Report. It was called? - answer- The General Board of Health for England
Not to be confused with the Chadwick report (British), the Shattuck report did what for
the people of the USA? - answer- provided census details that revealed high infant
mortality rates and high overall population mortality rates. It also provided
recommendations for improvement.
This woman is called the "angel of mercy." - answer- Florence Nightingale
