NUR 105 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 100% PASS 2026/2027
Definition of nursing - ANS The protection, promotion, and optimization of client's health and
abilities - to nurture the patient
early civilizations and nursing - ANS ancient eastern: religion and evil spirits
ancient egypt: diseasees
babylonian: astrology/evil spirits
hebrews: anatomy and physiology
ancient greece: mind/body/spirit
roman empire: pharmacology - medicine
rise of christianity - ANS sanctity of human life, followed teachings of jesus, women's role
seen as important in caring for the sick
- believed that abortion and infanticide were murder
- caring for sick, poor, and disadvantaged
dark ages - ANS poverty illness and death, healthcare: almost nonexistent, catholic church
formed religious nursing orders, insistence of cleanliness and hygiene which decreased the
spread of infection, used home remedies
holy wars (crusades) - ANS military nursing orders, men mostly cared for the sick, wore suits
of armor
2026/2027 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED
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, the renaissance - ANS nursing formed into a profession but wasn't popular
- tech advances: microscopes and thermometers - not accepted bc it was "satan's work"
protestant revolution - ANS male nurses all but disappeared, saw a focus on religious nursing
orders
- healthcare provided by females through orders
industrial revolution - ANS europe: close living quarters, poor health conditions - diseases
and plagues, community health nursing
pre-revolutionary war - ANS 5 hospitals in america, homeless and the poor, infant morality
was 50%-70%, first school of nursing in 1640
revolutionary war - ANS no organized medical or nursing corps, untrained volunteers to help
care for the sick
- 1751: ben franklin founded PA hospital which was the first u.s. hospital dedicated to caring for
the sick
between revolutionary and civil wars - ANS healthcare began to increase, more schools of
nursing began to develop, majority of nursing care is still happening in homes, hospitals were
considered a last resort which lead to high mortality rates
civil war - ANS caused more death than any war in the u.s., women volunteers followed
armies into the battlefield to provide care
- demand for nurses increased dramatically: navy nurses, american red cross, army nurse corps
negative image of nursing - ANS primary duties were to clean, cook, follow doctor's orders
- most of the doctor's duties are what fall within our scope of practice today
2026/2027 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED
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ANSWERS 100% PASS 2026/2027
Definition of nursing - ANS The protection, promotion, and optimization of client's health and
abilities - to nurture the patient
early civilizations and nursing - ANS ancient eastern: religion and evil spirits
ancient egypt: diseasees
babylonian: astrology/evil spirits
hebrews: anatomy and physiology
ancient greece: mind/body/spirit
roman empire: pharmacology - medicine
rise of christianity - ANS sanctity of human life, followed teachings of jesus, women's role
seen as important in caring for the sick
- believed that abortion and infanticide were murder
- caring for sick, poor, and disadvantaged
dark ages - ANS poverty illness and death, healthcare: almost nonexistent, catholic church
formed religious nursing orders, insistence of cleanliness and hygiene which decreased the
spread of infection, used home remedies
holy wars (crusades) - ANS military nursing orders, men mostly cared for the sick, wore suits
of armor
2026/2027 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED
1
, the renaissance - ANS nursing formed into a profession but wasn't popular
- tech advances: microscopes and thermometers - not accepted bc it was "satan's work"
protestant revolution - ANS male nurses all but disappeared, saw a focus on religious nursing
orders
- healthcare provided by females through orders
industrial revolution - ANS europe: close living quarters, poor health conditions - diseases
and plagues, community health nursing
pre-revolutionary war - ANS 5 hospitals in america, homeless and the poor, infant morality
was 50%-70%, first school of nursing in 1640
revolutionary war - ANS no organized medical or nursing corps, untrained volunteers to help
care for the sick
- 1751: ben franklin founded PA hospital which was the first u.s. hospital dedicated to caring for
the sick
between revolutionary and civil wars - ANS healthcare began to increase, more schools of
nursing began to develop, majority of nursing care is still happening in homes, hospitals were
considered a last resort which lead to high mortality rates
civil war - ANS caused more death than any war in the u.s., women volunteers followed
armies into the battlefield to provide care
- demand for nurses increased dramatically: navy nurses, american red cross, army nurse corps
negative image of nursing - ANS primary duties were to clean, cook, follow doctor's orders
- most of the doctor's duties are what fall within our scope of practice today
2026/2027 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED
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