Test Bank For Nursing Leadership,
Management, and Professional Practice for
the LPN/LVN 7th Edition By Tamara R.
Dahlkemper 9781719641487 Chapter 1-20
Complete Guide . / LATEST 2023-2024
,Nursing Leadership, Management, and Professional Practice for the
LPN/LVN 7th Edition Dahlkemper Test Bank
Chapter 1. Historical Perspectives and Current Trends
Chapter 1: Historical Perspective and Current Trends
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. The nursing student predominantly uses knowledge about the history of
nursing for what purpose?
1. To understand the professional choices open
to the student
2. To prevent making medication errors in
practice
3. To determine what geographical area is the
best place to practice
4. To reduce the cost of delivering quality
healthcare
2. The nurse is working in an underdeveloped country and observes the
natives lighting ritual fires and pounding on primitive drums around the sick person to
promote recovery. The nurse interprets this behavior as indicating the natives believe
illness results from what?
1. Pathogens and genetics
2. Evil spirits
3. Tides and planets
4. Plants and animals
3. The person credited with making a written record of healthcare practices
and removing the mythical aspect of healthcare is who?
1. Hammurabi
2. Florence Nightingale
3. Hippocrates
4. Apollo
4. Who served as the first public health nurses, caring for the sick and the
poor?
1. The Presbyterian Church
2. Salerno
, 3. Jewish scholars
4. Convent deaconesses
5. What is a crucial issue the nurse working in the late industrialization era
would need to address in order to promote health?
1. Reducing spread of infection
2. Reducing sedentary lifestyle
3. Teaching proper use of medications
4. Teaching use of car seats
6. What types of skills would a nursing student learn while attending
Kaiserworth Deaconess Institution in 1836?
1. Administering immunizations
2. Assisting in surgery
3. Washing and changing bed linens
4. Developing a plan of care
7. The nurse demonstrates Florence Nightingale’s theory of nursing with
what intervention?
1. Respecting the patient’s culture and
incorporating cultural needs in the plan of
care
2. Promoting good health and treating those who
are ill in a holistic manner
3. Understanding how to motivate people to
practice a healthy lifestyle and reduce risks
4. Teaching other nurses how to deliver the
highest quality of nursing care.
8. What action performed by the nurse directly resulted from the contribution
made by Linda Richards?
1. Using an antiseptic before administering an
injection
2. Exploring the psychosocial needs of the
patient
3. Documenting patient care in the medical
record
4. Listening to a patient describe his or her
condition
, 9. After graduating from nursing school, the graduate takes a licensure
examination as the result of what nurse’s contribution?
1. Florence Nightingale
2. Mary Adelaid Nutting
3. Lavinia L. Dock
4. Isabel Hampton Robb
10. In addition to caring for the sick, what other skills would the first LPN
students learn when attending the Ballard School in New York in 1893?
1. Political advocacy
2. Homemaking
3. Communication
4. Carpentry
11. The nurse responds to an alarm on a pulse oximeter and sees the patient’s
oxygen saturation is reading 38%. The nurse observes the patient, noting a respiratory
rate of 12 breaths per minute, pink mucous membranes, and easy regular respirations.
The nurse concludes the pulse oximeter is not reading accurately. Whose theory of
nursing is this nurse demonstrating?
1. Annie Goodrich
2. Lillian D. Wald
3. Florence Nightingale
4. Linda Richards
12. What statement describes Florence Nightingale’s beliefs about nursing?
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Management, and Professional Practice for
the LPN/LVN 7th Edition By Tamara R.
Dahlkemper 9781719641487 Chapter 1-20
Complete Guide . / LATEST 2023-2024
,Nursing Leadership, Management, and Professional Practice for the
LPN/LVN 7th Edition Dahlkemper Test Bank
Chapter 1. Historical Perspectives and Current Trends
Chapter 1: Historical Perspective and Current Trends
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. The nursing student predominantly uses knowledge about the history of
nursing for what purpose?
1. To understand the professional choices open
to the student
2. To prevent making medication errors in
practice
3. To determine what geographical area is the
best place to practice
4. To reduce the cost of delivering quality
healthcare
2. The nurse is working in an underdeveloped country and observes the
natives lighting ritual fires and pounding on primitive drums around the sick person to
promote recovery. The nurse interprets this behavior as indicating the natives believe
illness results from what?
1. Pathogens and genetics
2. Evil spirits
3. Tides and planets
4. Plants and animals
3. The person credited with making a written record of healthcare practices
and removing the mythical aspect of healthcare is who?
1. Hammurabi
2. Florence Nightingale
3. Hippocrates
4. Apollo
4. Who served as the first public health nurses, caring for the sick and the
poor?
1. The Presbyterian Church
2. Salerno
, 3. Jewish scholars
4. Convent deaconesses
5. What is a crucial issue the nurse working in the late industrialization era
would need to address in order to promote health?
1. Reducing spread of infection
2. Reducing sedentary lifestyle
3. Teaching proper use of medications
4. Teaching use of car seats
6. What types of skills would a nursing student learn while attending
Kaiserworth Deaconess Institution in 1836?
1. Administering immunizations
2. Assisting in surgery
3. Washing and changing bed linens
4. Developing a plan of care
7. The nurse demonstrates Florence Nightingale’s theory of nursing with
what intervention?
1. Respecting the patient’s culture and
incorporating cultural needs in the plan of
care
2. Promoting good health and treating those who
are ill in a holistic manner
3. Understanding how to motivate people to
practice a healthy lifestyle and reduce risks
4. Teaching other nurses how to deliver the
highest quality of nursing care.
8. What action performed by the nurse directly resulted from the contribution
made by Linda Richards?
1. Using an antiseptic before administering an
injection
2. Exploring the psychosocial needs of the
patient
3. Documenting patient care in the medical
record
4. Listening to a patient describe his or her
condition
, 9. After graduating from nursing school, the graduate takes a licensure
examination as the result of what nurse’s contribution?
1. Florence Nightingale
2. Mary Adelaid Nutting
3. Lavinia L. Dock
4. Isabel Hampton Robb
10. In addition to caring for the sick, what other skills would the first LPN
students learn when attending the Ballard School in New York in 1893?
1. Political advocacy
2. Homemaking
3. Communication
4. Carpentry
11. The nurse responds to an alarm on a pulse oximeter and sees the patient’s
oxygen saturation is reading 38%. The nurse observes the patient, noting a respiratory
rate of 12 breaths per minute, pink mucous membranes, and easy regular respirations.
The nurse concludes the pulse oximeter is not reading accurately. Whose theory of
nursing is this nurse demonstrating?
1. Annie Goodrich
2. Lillian D. Wald
3. Florence Nightingale
4. Linda Richards
12. What statement describes Florence Nightingale’s beliefs about nursing?
1. Practicing nurses should be licensed. tt tt tt tt tt
2.tt Promotion of good health and treating the ill are
tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt t
nursing priorities.
t tt tt
3.tt Nurses could simultaneously have a career an
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d a marriage.
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4.tt Organisms cause infection. tt tt tt
tt 13.
tt What was Mary Eliza Mahoney’s contribution to nursing?
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1.tt She organized the first visiting nurse as
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sociation. tt
2.tt She founded the American Journal of N
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