SLCC Fundamentals of Nursing-Module
1 Exam Questions and Answers
-founder of Modern Nursing, the first known epidemiologist, and a leader in Health Care
Reform.
-cared for the sick and wounded soldiers during the Crimean war
-her statistical analyses connected poor sanitation with cholera and dysentery
-She created major reforms in nursing practice, sanitation, and hygiene. During a 6
month period in Turkey she reduced the mortality rate from 42.7 % to 2.2% in 6 months.
-Was the first to perform Nursing Research. - Answer-Florence Nightingale
Founder of the American Red Cross during the Civil War - Answer-Clara Barton
Superintendent of Nurses for the Union Army - Answer-Dorthea Dix
-Developed an ambulance service on the Civil War battlefields
-Organized diet kitchens, laundries, and an ambulance service - Answer-Mary Ann Ball
Bickerdyke
In a time when it was illegal for an African American to read Mary Mahoney defied the
law and went to Nursing School. She was the first Colored graduate nurse. - Answer-
Mary Mahoney
Founder of the American Nursing Association (ANA). First superintendent of John
Hopkins Training School for Nurses - Answer-Isabel Hampton Robb
First Nursing teacher at Columbia
-first professor of nursing - Answer-Mary Adelaide Nutting
Developer of Community Nursing. Open Henery Street Settlement in NY - Answer-Mary
Brewster
Escaped Slave, spy for Union Army, Founder of Underground Railroad - Answer-harriet
tubman
Formed Frontier Nursing Service, Started first midwifery - Answer-Mary Breckenridge
WHich war had an affect on nursing?
-resulted in a knowledge explosion in medicine and technology, which broadened the
role of nurses. - Answer-WW2
the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness
and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and
, treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups,
communities, and populations.
is the definition of? - Answer-Nursing
is the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health
problems - Answer-nursing
The science of nursing is based on - Answer-knowledge, training, sciences and
research.
Difference between LVN and RN - Answer-LVN work under the supervision of an RN,
APRN or MD
Nursing Roles includes being a - Answer-Caregiver
Communicator
Teacher/educator
Counselor
Leader
Researcher
Advocate
Collaborator
Nursing's four broad aims are to promote - Answer-health, prevent illness, restore
health, and facilitate coping with disability or death.
Health is optimal functioning and a state of well being
Free from preventable disease
Quality of life
Lack of health disparities
Includes physical, social, and mental conditions. It is more than the absence of illness. -
Answer-Nurses Promote Health
This can include smoking cessation, healthy weight, good health habits, disease
prevention, immunizations, community classes.
The National health goals can be found at Healthy People 2030
Some of the topics include healthy weight, mobility, smoking, diabetes control,
prevention of childhood disease, promoting healthy elders. - Answer-Prevention of
illness
Activities that restore health have typically been the role of the nurse. Nurses are the
ones who provide patient care, wound care, monitor nutrition, reposition patients,
monitoring vital signs, hygiene. Nurses do treatments, change dressings, administer
medication. They educate the patient, plan and coordinate care, and work with
substance abuse and mental health issues. - Answer-Restoration of health
