NUR 1290 UPDATED 2026 EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Nursing Pins - ✔✔-purpose: worn by those who have graduated from nursing school
programs
✔✔Florence Nightingale - ✔✔-born in 1820 to wealthy family
-determined to become a nurse because she believed she was "called by God to help
others and improve well-being of mankind"
-established first nursing philosophy based on health maintenance and restoration
-first practicing nurse epidemiologist and researcher
✔✔James Derham - ✔✔-first male nurse in North America
-bought his freedom from slavery by working as a nurse
✔✔Dorothea Dix - ✔✔-appointed to organize military hospitals, provide trained nurses
and disperse supplies
-no salary or official status for this position
-fought for the rights of mentally ill
✔✔Clara Barton - ✔✔-concerned about the condition of wounded soldiers on battlefield
-brought supplies and nursed wounded on the front
-formed the American Red Cross in 1881
✔✔Margaret Sanger - ✔✔-controversial modern nurse
-dedicated to provide legal birth control
-founded Planned Parenthood
✔✔Mary Breckinridge - ✔✔-established Frontier Nursing Service in 1925: provided
healthcare to women and families in rural Kentucky
-educated as a nurse midwife in England
-started first school of midwifery in the US in 1939
-decreased number of maternal deaths
✔✔Lillian Wald - ✔✔-champion of the urban poor
-established Henry Street Settlement in 1893 which became NY Visiting Nursing
Services
-pioneer in public health nursing
✔✔Isabel Adams Hampton Robb - ✔✔-first president of ANA
-organized Nursing School Superintendents which became the National League of
Nurses
-member of committee to form AJN
, ✔✔Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail - ✔✔-helped to end abuses in Indian Health Care
System
-decreased death rate of Native American children
-established funding mechanism for education of Native American Nurses
-received Presidents Award in 1992 for outstanding Nursing Healthcare
✔✔Virginia A Henderson - ✔✔-wrote the textbook on nursing practice: Textbook of the
Principles and Practice of Nursing
-established tools that promoted nursing research = Nursing Studies Index
-considered Florence Nightingale of her time due to work as teacher and researcher
✔✔Florence S Wald - ✔✔-credited with development of hospice movement in the US
-developed first program in CT in 1960s
-modeled programs after successful ones in England
✔✔American Nurses Association (ANA) - ✔✔-purpose: improve quality of nursing care
-established: 1911
-establishes standards of nursing practice
-establishes professional code of ethics
-develops educational standards
-oversees a credentialing system
-influences legislation affecting healthcare
✔✔National League for Nursing (NLN) - ✔✔-purpose: to identify the nursing needs of
society and foster programs designed to meet these needs
-established: 1952
-accredits nursing education programs
-conducts surveys to collect data on education programs
-provides continuing education programs
-open to nurses and non-nurses
✔✔National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc - ✔✔-purpose: provides an
organization through which boards off nursing act together on matters of common
interest and concern
-established: 1978
-develops and administers licensure examinations for RN & LP/VN candidates
-maintains a national disciplinary data bank
-serves as the national clearinghouse of info on nursing regulation
-publications: NCLEX
✔✔American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) - ✔✔-purpose: to establish
quality standards for bachelors and graduate-degree nursing education, assist deans
and directors to implement those standards, influence the nursing profession to improve
healthcare and promote public support of bachelors and graduate education, research
and practice in nursing
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Nursing Pins - ✔✔-purpose: worn by those who have graduated from nursing school
programs
✔✔Florence Nightingale - ✔✔-born in 1820 to wealthy family
-determined to become a nurse because she believed she was "called by God to help
others and improve well-being of mankind"
-established first nursing philosophy based on health maintenance and restoration
-first practicing nurse epidemiologist and researcher
✔✔James Derham - ✔✔-first male nurse in North America
-bought his freedom from slavery by working as a nurse
✔✔Dorothea Dix - ✔✔-appointed to organize military hospitals, provide trained nurses
and disperse supplies
-no salary or official status for this position
-fought for the rights of mentally ill
✔✔Clara Barton - ✔✔-concerned about the condition of wounded soldiers on battlefield
-brought supplies and nursed wounded on the front
-formed the American Red Cross in 1881
✔✔Margaret Sanger - ✔✔-controversial modern nurse
-dedicated to provide legal birth control
-founded Planned Parenthood
✔✔Mary Breckinridge - ✔✔-established Frontier Nursing Service in 1925: provided
healthcare to women and families in rural Kentucky
-educated as a nurse midwife in England
-started first school of midwifery in the US in 1939
-decreased number of maternal deaths
✔✔Lillian Wald - ✔✔-champion of the urban poor
-established Henry Street Settlement in 1893 which became NY Visiting Nursing
Services
-pioneer in public health nursing
✔✔Isabel Adams Hampton Robb - ✔✔-first president of ANA
-organized Nursing School Superintendents which became the National League of
Nurses
-member of committee to form AJN
, ✔✔Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail - ✔✔-helped to end abuses in Indian Health Care
System
-decreased death rate of Native American children
-established funding mechanism for education of Native American Nurses
-received Presidents Award in 1992 for outstanding Nursing Healthcare
✔✔Virginia A Henderson - ✔✔-wrote the textbook on nursing practice: Textbook of the
Principles and Practice of Nursing
-established tools that promoted nursing research = Nursing Studies Index
-considered Florence Nightingale of her time due to work as teacher and researcher
✔✔Florence S Wald - ✔✔-credited with development of hospice movement in the US
-developed first program in CT in 1960s
-modeled programs after successful ones in England
✔✔American Nurses Association (ANA) - ✔✔-purpose: improve quality of nursing care
-established: 1911
-establishes standards of nursing practice
-establishes professional code of ethics
-develops educational standards
-oversees a credentialing system
-influences legislation affecting healthcare
✔✔National League for Nursing (NLN) - ✔✔-purpose: to identify the nursing needs of
society and foster programs designed to meet these needs
-established: 1952
-accredits nursing education programs
-conducts surveys to collect data on education programs
-provides continuing education programs
-open to nurses and non-nurses
✔✔National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc - ✔✔-purpose: provides an
organization through which boards off nursing act together on matters of common
interest and concern
-established: 1978
-develops and administers licensure examinations for RN & LP/VN candidates
-maintains a national disciplinary data bank
-serves as the national clearinghouse of info on nursing regulation
-publications: NCLEX
✔✔American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) - ✔✔-purpose: to establish
quality standards for bachelors and graduate-degree nursing education, assist deans
and directors to implement those standards, influence the nursing profession to improve
healthcare and promote public support of bachelors and graduate education, research
and practice in nursing
