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CONTEMPORARY NURSING 3RD
CANADIAN EDITION BURKHARDT 2024 A+
Chapter 1 – Social, Philosophical, and Other Historical Forces Influencing the
Development of Nursing
Multiple Choice
1. For which of the following is empathy a motive?
a. meeting the needs of others
b. moral reasoning and action
c. becoming a nurse
d. determining right from wrong
ANSWER: b
2. Which of the following is an example of social need as an ethical foundation for nursing?
a. Nurses must determine the health and social needs of society.
b. Nursing finds its origin, purpose, and meaning within the context of perceived social
need.
c. Theories of social need in sociology are utilized by nursing scholars, many of whom view
them as conceptual frameworks for nursing practice.
d. Social need determines the boundaries of the ethical principles of distributive justice,
beneficence, and non-maleficence.
ANSWER: b
3. What is the most critical factor that influences nursing practice?
a. the traditional role of healers
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b. the role of women in society
c. the religious and spiritual aspects of health care
d. the introduction of male nurses into the profession
ANSWER: b
4. Why does the social status of women affect the status of the nursing profession?
a. Nursing has traditionally been a profession of women.
b. Throughout history, nurses have been afforded higher social status.
c. Women of higher social status rarely become nurses.
d. Women are more skilled than men at nurturing others.
ANSWER: a
5. What historical influences affected nursing as a moral discipline?
a. technology
b. society
c. spirituality
d. oppression
ANSWER: c
6. What is the term that relates to knowledge gained through observation and experience?
a. empirical
b. Cartesian philosophy
c. values
d. moral thought
ANSWER: a
7. Which of the following is an example of the significance of Nursing during the Middle
Ages ?
a. Religious nursing orders and church-sanctioned secular nursing orders offered the only
legitimate avenues for women wishing to become nurses.
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b. Increasing respect was given to nursing and midwifery, as nurses began to practise
autonomously.
c. Healing arts in Denmark and Greece were performed in sacred ceremonies by priests,
priestesses, or shamans.
d. Most nurses were women of high social status seeking ways to legitimize their position
and status.
ANSWER: a
8. What does the term empirical relate to?
a. serving God and thy neighbour the best way one can
b. knowledge gained through observation and experience
c. healing through religious intervention, chanting, and praying
d. the enforcement of religious doctrine related to the status of women in society
ANSWER: b
9. When was the “Dark Period of Nursing,” when convalescent patients, prostitutes,
prisoners, and drunkards provided hospital nursing care?
a. during the Reformation
b. during the Crusades
c. during the Middle Ages
d. during the early Christian era
ANSWER: a
10. Which of the following had the greatest influence on nursing traditions in Canada?
a. Britain
b. indigenous persons
c. France
d. Germany
ANSWER: c
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11. Which of the following had the greatest influence on establishing the first hospital in the
New World?
a. Marie Rollet Hebert
b. Marguerite d’Youville
c. Jeanne Mance
d. Renee Descartes
ANSWER: c
12. After the First and Second World Wars, the Canadian Red Cross Society and nursing
groups noted an important trend in health care that is still articulated in the Lalonde and
Romanow report. What is that trend?
a. the formation of nursing groups such as the CNA and professional organizations
b. the political and economic action taken to correct the wrongs suffered by the military
c. the establishment of governments’ social and political responsibility in health care
d. the need for strong, well-established public health programs, health education, and care
of those living in poverty
ANSWER: d
13. Which of the following is an example of the CNA’s vision for the future of nursing?
a. Nurses must play varied roles in order to provide holistic care to a diverse and changing
population.
b. Nursing professional organizations in both Canada and the United States need to join
together.
c. An increasing appreciation for the role of public health nursing leads to improving the
status of nursing.
d. There will be further development of the relationship between social need and the
evolution of the practice of nursing.
ANSWER: a
14. Which of the following statements best describes Florence Nightingale?
a. She believed in traditional expectations for women.
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