Intro to Nursing and Professional Formation
Exam Revision Question & Certified Answer
What is a "Nurse"? - Answer A person who nourishes, fosters, and protects and who is prepared to take
care of sick, injured, older, and dying people
Nursing includes what aspects of a patient? - Answer Physical, emotional, social, and spiritual
dimensions
Who is the "founder" of nursing that defined nursing as an art and a science, differentiated nursing from
medicine and created freestanding nursing education? - Answer Florence Nightengale
Volunteered to care for wounds and feed Union soldiers during the Civil War; served as the supervisor of
nurses for the Army of the James, organizing hospitals and nurses; established the Red Cross in the
United States in 1882 - Answer Clara Barton
Served as superintendent of the Female Nurses of the Army during the Civil War; was given the
authority and the responsibility for recruiting and equipping a corps of army nurses; was a pioneering
crusader for the reform of the treatment of the mentally ill - Answer Dorothea Dix
Organized diet kitchens, laundries, and an ambulance service, and supervised nursing staff during the
Civil War - Answer Mary Ann Bickerdyke
A nurse during the civil war; returned to New York and organized the New York Charities Aid Associated
to improved care of the sick - Answer Louise Schuyler
Graduated in 1873 from the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston, Massachusetts,
as the first trained nurse in the United States; became the night superintendent of Bellevue Hospital in
1874 and began the practice of keeping records and writing orders - Answer Linda Richards
Provided social services within a neighborhood setting; a leader for women's rights; recipient of the
1931 Nobel Peace prize - Answer Jane Addams
, Established a neighborhood nursing service for the sick poor of the Lower East Side in New York City; the
founder of public health nursing - Answer Lillian Wald
Graduated from the New England Hospital for Women and Children in 1879 as America's First Black
Nurse - Answer Mary Elizabeth Mahoney
A nurse and abolitionist; active in underground railroad movement before joining union army during civil
war - Answer Harriet Tubman
Established a training program for nurses at the Montreal General Hospital (first 3 year program in
North America) - Answer Nora Gertrude Livingston
Director of the nursing school at Toronto General Hospital and one of the founders of the Canadian
Nurses Association - Answer Mary Agnes Snively
Provided nursing care to soldiers during the Civil War and worked for the women's movement - Answer
Sojourner Truth
A leader in nursing and nursing education; organized the nursing school at Johns Hopkins Hospital;
initiated policies that included limiting the number of hours in a day's work and wrote a textbook to help
student learning; the first president of the Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada
(which later became the American Nurses Association) - Answer Isabel Hampton Robb
Became the first professor of nursing in the world as a faculty member of Teachers' College, Columbia
University; with Lavinia Dock, published the four-volume History of Nursing - Answer Mary Adelaide
Nutting
A member of the original Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada (a group that provided public health
nursing); organized the Canadian Women's Army Corps during World War II - Answer Elizabeth Smellie
A nursing leader and women's rights activist; Instrumental in the constitutional amendment giving
women the right to vote - Answer Lavinia Dock
Exam Revision Question & Certified Answer
What is a "Nurse"? - Answer A person who nourishes, fosters, and protects and who is prepared to take
care of sick, injured, older, and dying people
Nursing includes what aspects of a patient? - Answer Physical, emotional, social, and spiritual
dimensions
Who is the "founder" of nursing that defined nursing as an art and a science, differentiated nursing from
medicine and created freestanding nursing education? - Answer Florence Nightengale
Volunteered to care for wounds and feed Union soldiers during the Civil War; served as the supervisor of
nurses for the Army of the James, organizing hospitals and nurses; established the Red Cross in the
United States in 1882 - Answer Clara Barton
Served as superintendent of the Female Nurses of the Army during the Civil War; was given the
authority and the responsibility for recruiting and equipping a corps of army nurses; was a pioneering
crusader for the reform of the treatment of the mentally ill - Answer Dorothea Dix
Organized diet kitchens, laundries, and an ambulance service, and supervised nursing staff during the
Civil War - Answer Mary Ann Bickerdyke
A nurse during the civil war; returned to New York and organized the New York Charities Aid Associated
to improved care of the sick - Answer Louise Schuyler
Graduated in 1873 from the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston, Massachusetts,
as the first trained nurse in the United States; became the night superintendent of Bellevue Hospital in
1874 and began the practice of keeping records and writing orders - Answer Linda Richards
Provided social services within a neighborhood setting; a leader for women's rights; recipient of the
1931 Nobel Peace prize - Answer Jane Addams
, Established a neighborhood nursing service for the sick poor of the Lower East Side in New York City; the
founder of public health nursing - Answer Lillian Wald
Graduated from the New England Hospital for Women and Children in 1879 as America's First Black
Nurse - Answer Mary Elizabeth Mahoney
A nurse and abolitionist; active in underground railroad movement before joining union army during civil
war - Answer Harriet Tubman
Established a training program for nurses at the Montreal General Hospital (first 3 year program in
North America) - Answer Nora Gertrude Livingston
Director of the nursing school at Toronto General Hospital and one of the founders of the Canadian
Nurses Association - Answer Mary Agnes Snively
Provided nursing care to soldiers during the Civil War and worked for the women's movement - Answer
Sojourner Truth
A leader in nursing and nursing education; organized the nursing school at Johns Hopkins Hospital;
initiated policies that included limiting the number of hours in a day's work and wrote a textbook to help
student learning; the first president of the Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada
(which later became the American Nurses Association) - Answer Isabel Hampton Robb
Became the first professor of nursing in the world as a faculty member of Teachers' College, Columbia
University; with Lavinia Dock, published the four-volume History of Nursing - Answer Mary Adelaide
Nutting
A member of the original Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada (a group that provided public health
nursing); organized the Canadian Women's Army Corps during World War II - Answer Elizabeth Smellie
A nursing leader and women's rights activist; Instrumental in the constitutional amendment giving
women the right to vote - Answer Lavinia Dock
