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VNSG 1304 Test #1 Questions and
Answers 2024/2025
Illness
an abnormal process in which aspects if the social, emotional, or intellectual conditions
and functions of a person are diminished or impaired
What were hospitals called in the nineteenth century
Pest houses
Babylonians
were well advanced but war caused increased illness and were usually men
Ancient Hebrews
attributed Illness to gods wrath and had health, dietary, and hygiene practices.
Who believed in the separation of dairy and meat and also careful slaughtering and
inspection of meat?
Ancient Hebrews
Who would burn infected garments, isolation and scrubbing of the sick's home?
the Jews
Where would the nurses care for the sick?
in the patients home
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Ancient Egyptians
Learned the organs and identified about 250 diseases
Who developed multiple drugs and surgeries and also learned how to take pulses, bandage,
splints and catheters?
Ancient Egyptians
Who established hospitals for the sick?
Ancient Indians
Who established temples(hospitals) for rest and restoration and also had religious influences
such as a prayer?
Ancient Greeks
Who is the father of medicine?
Hippocrates
Who focused primarily on public health and emphasized on care for the poor, sick, wounded
and the children?
Early Christians
Who invented the visiting nurse who attended the sick and the poor in their homes?
Phoebe
Who provided the first free hospital?
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Fabiola
Where was the first free hospital located?
In Rome in AD 390
Who established the first nursing school?
Lutheran order of deaconesses
Who became the first superintendent of a charity hospitals for ill governesses?
Florence Nightingale
Who became known as the "Lady with the lamp"
Florence Nightingale
Who is credited as the first nursing theorist
Florence Nightingale
Who established the Saint Thomas Hospital in London?
Florence Nightingale
Who invented the first nursing school in the US?
YWCA (young women's Christian association) known as the Ballard school in 1892
What was the Smith-Hughes act of 1917?
It was to provide federal funding for vocationally nursing programs
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VNSG 1304 Test #1 Questions and
Answers 2024/2025
Illness
an abnormal process in which aspects if the social, emotional, or intellectual conditions
and functions of a person are diminished or impaired
What were hospitals called in the nineteenth century
Pest houses
Babylonians
were well advanced but war caused increased illness and were usually men
Ancient Hebrews
attributed Illness to gods wrath and had health, dietary, and hygiene practices.
Who believed in the separation of dairy and meat and also careful slaughtering and
inspection of meat?
Ancient Hebrews
Who would burn infected garments, isolation and scrubbing of the sick's home?
the Jews
Where would the nurses care for the sick?
in the patients home
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,2 0 2 4 /2025 | © copyright | This work may not be copied for profit gain Excel!
Ancient Egyptians
Learned the organs and identified about 250 diseases
Who developed multiple drugs and surgeries and also learned how to take pulses, bandage,
splints and catheters?
Ancient Egyptians
Who established hospitals for the sick?
Ancient Indians
Who established temples(hospitals) for rest and restoration and also had religious influences
such as a prayer?
Ancient Greeks
Who is the father of medicine?
Hippocrates
Who focused primarily on public health and emphasized on care for the poor, sick, wounded
and the children?
Early Christians
Who invented the visiting nurse who attended the sick and the poor in their homes?
Phoebe
Who provided the first free hospital?
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, 2 0 2 4 /2025 | © copyright | This work may not be copied for profit gain Excel!
Fabiola
Where was the first free hospital located?
In Rome in AD 390
Who established the first nursing school?
Lutheran order of deaconesses
Who became the first superintendent of a charity hospitals for ill governesses?
Florence Nightingale
Who became known as the "Lady with the lamp"
Florence Nightingale
Who is credited as the first nursing theorist
Florence Nightingale
Who established the Saint Thomas Hospital in London?
Florence Nightingale
Who invented the first nursing school in the US?
YWCA (young women's Christian association) known as the Ballard school in 1892
What was the Smith-Hughes act of 1917?
It was to provide federal funding for vocationally nursing programs
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