NUR 1290 FINAL EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
What Are the Attributes of Being a "Good" Nurse? - ANS -caring (show you genuinely care)
-communication skills (speak and listen well)
-emotional stability
-empathy
-problem-solving skills
-attention to detail
4 Pillars of Molloy - ANS -studies
-community (participate)
-spirituality (help pt connect w higher being)
-service
Molloy's Humanistic Framework for Nursing - ANS -we believe that valuing the individual in
the context of humanity, environment, and health gives meaning to humanistic nursing practice
Humanistic Framework of Nursing - ANS -valuing
-humanity
-health
-environment
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,valuing - ANS -holding in high esteem the inherent worth and dignity of all individuals
humanity - ANS -unique human being, functioning as an integrated whole, reflecting bio-
psycho-socio-cultural dimensions
environment - ANS -sum total of all internal/external dimensions that influence human
beings
health - ANS - a dynamic state of bio-psycho-socio-cultural well being
nursing - ANS -a science and an art which focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of human
responses
Early Civilization of Nursing - ANS -Egyptian physicians are believed to have specialized in
certain diseases
-midwives assisted with childbirth = first recorded nurses
Ancient Greece and Nursing - ANS -Apollo = god of healing
-400 BC = Hippocrates believed disease had natural, not magical causes
diagnosis - ANS -identifying disease scientifically
prognosis - ANS -predicting possible outcomes
cure - ANS -restoration of health
Roman Empire and Nursing - ANS -influenced by Egyptians and Greeks
-known for advances in public health
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, Ancient India and Nursing - ANS -male nurses needed 4 qualifications:
1. knowledge of drugs for administration
2. cleverness
3. devotedness to pt
4. purity of mind and body
Christianity and Nursing - ANS -nursing had a more formal/defined role
-led by belief that love and caring for others is most important
-women: visit sick pts
-men: nursing care and bury dead
-nursing became respected vocation
Middle Ages and Nursing - ANS -more hospitals
-nurses delivered custodial care and depended on physicians for direction
-nurse midwifery flourished
Crusades and Nursing - ANS -hospitals developed on battlefield
-Knight Hospitaliers = bright red cross
-nursing became a female-dominated proffession encouraged by Catholic Church
15th-19th Century and Nursing - ANS -extensive population growth in cities, lack of hygiene
and sanitation, increase in poverty = serious health problem
-closure of monasteries and convents = shortage of people to care for sick
-women who committed crimes were able to become nurses instead of serving sentences
Renaissance and Nursing - ANS -dark ages of nursing
-average family dreaded hospitals
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
What Are the Attributes of Being a "Good" Nurse? - ANS -caring (show you genuinely care)
-communication skills (speak and listen well)
-emotional stability
-empathy
-problem-solving skills
-attention to detail
4 Pillars of Molloy - ANS -studies
-community (participate)
-spirituality (help pt connect w higher being)
-service
Molloy's Humanistic Framework for Nursing - ANS -we believe that valuing the individual in
the context of humanity, environment, and health gives meaning to humanistic nursing practice
Humanistic Framework of Nursing - ANS -valuing
-humanity
-health
-environment
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
,valuing - ANS -holding in high esteem the inherent worth and dignity of all individuals
humanity - ANS -unique human being, functioning as an integrated whole, reflecting bio-
psycho-socio-cultural dimensions
environment - ANS -sum total of all internal/external dimensions that influence human
beings
health - ANS - a dynamic state of bio-psycho-socio-cultural well being
nursing - ANS -a science and an art which focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of human
responses
Early Civilization of Nursing - ANS -Egyptian physicians are believed to have specialized in
certain diseases
-midwives assisted with childbirth = first recorded nurses
Ancient Greece and Nursing - ANS -Apollo = god of healing
-400 BC = Hippocrates believed disease had natural, not magical causes
diagnosis - ANS -identifying disease scientifically
prognosis - ANS -predicting possible outcomes
cure - ANS -restoration of health
Roman Empire and Nursing - ANS -influenced by Egyptians and Greeks
-known for advances in public health
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, Ancient India and Nursing - ANS -male nurses needed 4 qualifications:
1. knowledge of drugs for administration
2. cleverness
3. devotedness to pt
4. purity of mind and body
Christianity and Nursing - ANS -nursing had a more formal/defined role
-led by belief that love and caring for others is most important
-women: visit sick pts
-men: nursing care and bury dead
-nursing became respected vocation
Middle Ages and Nursing - ANS -more hospitals
-nurses delivered custodial care and depended on physicians for direction
-nurse midwifery flourished
Crusades and Nursing - ANS -hospitals developed on battlefield
-Knight Hospitaliers = bright red cross
-nursing became a female-dominated proffession encouraged by Catholic Church
15th-19th Century and Nursing - ANS -extensive population growth in cities, lack of hygiene
and sanitation, increase in poverty = serious health problem
-closure of monasteries and convents = shortage of people to care for sick
-women who committed crimes were able to become nurses instead of serving sentences
Renaissance and Nursing - ANS -dark ages of nursing
-average family dreaded hospitals
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