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STUDY GUIDE 2026
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS
◉ Internal Perception Influences Answer: influences from people within
the profession
◉ External Perception Influences Answer: influences from people
outside
◉ Perception in 1800s Answer: Charles Dickens--Sairy Gamp - drunken,
uncaring nurse profiting on sick and dying
◉ Reality in 1800s Answer: -Florence Nightingale
Sacrifice and service
◉ Perceptions of early 1900's Answer: Margaret Hoolihan (Hot Lips)
Nurse Ratched
◉ late 1800s and early 1900s Answer: Harriet Tubman--Underground
RR
Sojourner Truth--clean and sanitary conditions
,Susie King Taylor--Company C
Walt Whitman--Nurse volunteer
Clara Barton--Civil War
Louisa May Alcott--wrote articles for newspaper
◉ Reality of 1900s Answer: Edith Cavell - Founder of nursing school in
Belgium
Clara Maass - Died at 25 from Yellow Fever, Assisted in developing
critical care units
◉ perception of 1930-40's Answer: -Professionals
-Glamorized in media
- Low income, long hours, understaffed
◉ perception of 1950-70's Answer: - nurse ratched
- margaret hoolhan
◉ reality in 1900s Answer: - Clara Mass
- First NP Program
- Assisted in developing critical care units
◉ Early 1980-90's perception Answer: -media began to show accurate
portrayals
,◉ Social Media...The good Answer: able to change public perception of
what we do and why we do it
◉ Social media...The bad Answer: - Breach of professional boundaries
- violation of patient privacy
◉ Results of the bad in social media Answer: -loss of job
- expulsion from school
- revocation of license
◉ Leader Answer: ensure safe, high quality care
◉ care Answer: provision of necessities for health, welfare,
maintenance, and protection
feel concern/interest; attach importance; provide for needs
COMPASSION, LOVE, LISTENING, EMPATHY, GOLDEN RULE, SAFETY,
QUALITY, INTEGRITY, TEACH, PRAYER, TIME
◉ nurse advocate Answer: voice for pt
liaison between pt and fam, physicians, and administration, assist w
decision making, advocate for profession
, ◉ Manager Answer: oversees nursing care, planning and
implementation, directing and monitoring, evaluation
◉ Researcher Answer: Usually, doctoral or masters prepared
- ADN and BSN nurses do participate in collecting data, etc..
◉ Specializing Answer: - work or treatment setting
- disease category or condition
- organ or body system
- popuation
◉ Ultima Answer: the last syllable
◉ word origins Answer: -Greek and Latin
-Eponyms--diseases named after a person who had the disease
-acronyms
-modern language
◉ prefix Answer: modifies root
◉ root Answer: -base, often followed by a combining vowel
-some meanings have 2+ roots that mean the same thing