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BNURSING B6THBEDITIONBWILLIAMS-ALL BCHAPTERS- BQUESTIONS
BANDBANSWERS B2023- B2024 BGRADEDBA+ HIGRADES,
Chapter 01: Nursing and the Health Care System
Williams: deWit's Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing, 5th
Edition
MULTIPLE
CHOICE
1. Florence Nightingale’s contributions to nursing practice and
education:
a. are historically important but have no validity for nursing today.
b. were neither recognized nor appreciated in her own time.
c. were a major factor in reducing the death rate in the Crimean
War.
d. were limited only to the care of severe traumatic wounds.
ANS: C
By improving sanitation, nutrition ventilation, and handwashing
techniques, Florence Nightingale’s nurses dramatically reduced the
death rate from injuries in the Crimean War.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: p.
2 OBJ: Theory #1TOP: Nursing History KEY:
, Nursing Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: N/A
2. Early nursing education and care in the United States:
a. were directed at community health.
b. provided independence for women through education and
employment.
c. were an educational model based in institutions of higher learning.
d. have continued to be entirely focused on hospital nursing.
,ANS: B
Because of the influence of early nNuUrRsiSnI gNGleTaBd.eCrOs ,Mn u rsing
education became more formalized through apprenticeships in
Nightingale schools that offered independence to women through
education and employment.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: p.
2 OBJ: Theory #4TOP: Nursing History KEY:
Nursing Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: N/A
, 3. In order to fulfill the common goals defined by nursing theorists
(promote wellness, preventillness, facilitate coping, and restore
health), the LPN must take on the roles of:
a. caregiver, educator, and collaborator.
b. nursing assistant, delegator, and environmental specialist.
c. medication dispenser, collaborator, and transporter.
d. dietitian, manager, and housekeeper.
ANS: A
In order for the LPN to apply the common goals of nursing, he
or she must assume the rolesof caregiver, educator, collaborator,
manager, and advocate.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: p.
3 OBJ: Theory #2TOP: Art and Science of
Nursing KEY: Nursing Process
Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: N/A
4. Although nursing theories differ in their attempts to define
nursing, all of them base theirbeliefs on common concepts
concerning:
