Contemporary Practical Vocational Nursing
Test Bank Certification Exam Edition
2026/2027 | Complete Exam Questions and
Accurate Answers with Full Explanations
(Already Passed A+)
• Approved program -✓✓one that satisfies minimum standards set by the state
agency responsible for overseeing educational programs
• Articulation -✓✓Nursing programs allowed to plan their curricula collaboratively
• Certification -✓✓licensure
• Health -✓✓the area along the wellness-illness continuum that the patient
occupies
• Healthcare System -✓✓A network of agencies, facilities, and providers involved
with healthcare in a specified geographic area
• Holistic -✓✓requires that professionals from differing areas come together to
provide comprehensive care
• Holistic Healthcare -✓✓A system of comprehensive or total patient care that
considers the physical, emotional, social, economic, and spiritual needs of a person
• Illness -✓✓an abnormal process which aspects of the social, emotional, or
intellectual condition and function of a person are diminished or impared
• Licensure -✓✓The granting of permission by the overseeing authority to engage
in practice or activity that would otherwise be illegal
• Patient -✓✓The individual who receives the care
• Pest Houses -✓✓Dirty, overcrowded facilities filled with patients
, • Portfolio -✓✓An organized account of an individual's education and professional
accomplishments
• Wellness -✓✓Dynamic state of health in which an individual progresses toward a
higher level of functioning, achieving an optimum balance between internal and
external environments.
• Medicine men -✓✓performed rituals to force evil spirits to leave the body of the
ill
• First nursing school -✓✓Located in Kaiserswerth, Germany Established by the
Lutheran order of Deaconesses
• Florence Nightingale -✓✓Overcame opposition of family/friends to attend the
Kaiserswerth/Deaconesses school at age of 31
• Nightingale's "coxcomb" chart -✓✓to show causes of mortality in the army in the
east
• "Lady with the Lamp" -✓✓She carried a small lamp on her night rounds
• Nightingale Nurses training length -✓✓1 year and included both didactic and
hands on training
• Dorothea Dix (1802-1887) -✓✓Pioneer crusader for elevation of standards of
care for the mentally ill- Superintendent of Female Nurses of the Union Army &
1st Army nurse
• Clara Barton (1821-1912) -✓✓Volunteered to nurse in field hospitals, known as
"Angel of the Battlefield" because she cared for everyone on both sides. Developed
the American Red Cross in 1881
• Mary Ann Ball (1817-1901) -✓✓One of the greatest nurse heroines of the Civil
War. Championed the rights and comforts of the soldiers; organized kitchens,
laundries, ambulance service; and supervised the nursing staff
Test Bank Certification Exam Edition
2026/2027 | Complete Exam Questions and
Accurate Answers with Full Explanations
(Already Passed A+)
• Approved program -✓✓one that satisfies minimum standards set by the state
agency responsible for overseeing educational programs
• Articulation -✓✓Nursing programs allowed to plan their curricula collaboratively
• Certification -✓✓licensure
• Health -✓✓the area along the wellness-illness continuum that the patient
occupies
• Healthcare System -✓✓A network of agencies, facilities, and providers involved
with healthcare in a specified geographic area
• Holistic -✓✓requires that professionals from differing areas come together to
provide comprehensive care
• Holistic Healthcare -✓✓A system of comprehensive or total patient care that
considers the physical, emotional, social, economic, and spiritual needs of a person
• Illness -✓✓an abnormal process which aspects of the social, emotional, or
intellectual condition and function of a person are diminished or impared
• Licensure -✓✓The granting of permission by the overseeing authority to engage
in practice or activity that would otherwise be illegal
• Patient -✓✓The individual who receives the care
• Pest Houses -✓✓Dirty, overcrowded facilities filled with patients
, • Portfolio -✓✓An organized account of an individual's education and professional
accomplishments
• Wellness -✓✓Dynamic state of health in which an individual progresses toward a
higher level of functioning, achieving an optimum balance between internal and
external environments.
• Medicine men -✓✓performed rituals to force evil spirits to leave the body of the
ill
• First nursing school -✓✓Located in Kaiserswerth, Germany Established by the
Lutheran order of Deaconesses
• Florence Nightingale -✓✓Overcame opposition of family/friends to attend the
Kaiserswerth/Deaconesses school at age of 31
• Nightingale's "coxcomb" chart -✓✓to show causes of mortality in the army in the
east
• "Lady with the Lamp" -✓✓She carried a small lamp on her night rounds
• Nightingale Nurses training length -✓✓1 year and included both didactic and
hands on training
• Dorothea Dix (1802-1887) -✓✓Pioneer crusader for elevation of standards of
care for the mentally ill- Superintendent of Female Nurses of the Union Army &
1st Army nurse
• Clara Barton (1821-1912) -✓✓Volunteered to nurse in field hospitals, known as
"Angel of the Battlefield" because she cared for everyone on both sides. Developed
the American Red Cross in 1881
• Mary Ann Ball (1817-1901) -✓✓One of the greatest nurse heroines of the Civil
War. Championed the rights and comforts of the soldiers; organized kitchens,
laundries, ambulance service; and supervised the nursing staff
