PRACTICAL VOCATIONAL NURSING
TRAINING STUDY SHEET 2026 UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉Florence Nightingale. Answer: Founder of modern nursing and
attended nursing school for 3 months
◉Nightingale establishes school of nursing in England. Answer:
1860
◉Notes on Nursing. Answer: 1860
◉Clara Barton establishes American Red Cross. Answer: 1881
◉YWCA, Brooklyn, New York. Answer: First class for formal training
of practical nursing 1892
◉Mississippi is the first state to pass license practical nurses.
Answer: 1914
◉World War 1 (1914-1918). Answer: Shortage of nurses, army
school of nursing established
,◉New York only state to have mandatory licensure. Answer: 1938
◉NAPNES. Answer: Organization exclusive for practical nursing
established 1941
◉All states has licensure laws for PN/VN. Answer: 1955
◉1957. Answer: NLN established a council of practical nursing
programs
◉American nurse association (ANA). Answer: Two distinct levels:
professional and technical 1965
◉NCLEX-PN. Answer: First computerized adaptive test 1994
◉Crimean War. Answer: 1853-1865
◉Sisters of Mercy. Answer: Tended to Russian troops
◉Sisters of Charity. Answer: Tended to the French
, ◉Nightingale and Crimean war. Answer: Took 38 self proclaimed
nurses
◉Mary Seacole. Answer: nurse from Jamaica, used her own money
to build a lodging house & turned second floor into a hospital.
◉Nightingale Training School. Answer: 1850 St Thomas Hospital in
England, 1 year program
◉Lystra Gretter. Answer: modified the Hippocratic Oath in 1893 and
named it The Nightingale Pledge
◉Dorothea Lynde Dix. Answer: the most important figure in
boosting awareness of the plight of the mentally ill, 1860s
◉Ballard School. Answer: First school to establish a practical nurse
training program in 1893, focused on home health care for
chronically ill, invalids, children, and elderly
◉Before WW1. Answer: Most nursing was home nursing
◉Henry Street Settlement. Answer: New York, 1893, Lillian Wald
taught families in the slums basics of cleanliness and control of
communicable diseases
TRAINING STUDY SHEET 2026 UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉Florence Nightingale. Answer: Founder of modern nursing and
attended nursing school for 3 months
◉Nightingale establishes school of nursing in England. Answer:
1860
◉Notes on Nursing. Answer: 1860
◉Clara Barton establishes American Red Cross. Answer: 1881
◉YWCA, Brooklyn, New York. Answer: First class for formal training
of practical nursing 1892
◉Mississippi is the first state to pass license practical nurses.
Answer: 1914
◉World War 1 (1914-1918). Answer: Shortage of nurses, army
school of nursing established
,◉New York only state to have mandatory licensure. Answer: 1938
◉NAPNES. Answer: Organization exclusive for practical nursing
established 1941
◉All states has licensure laws for PN/VN. Answer: 1955
◉1957. Answer: NLN established a council of practical nursing
programs
◉American nurse association (ANA). Answer: Two distinct levels:
professional and technical 1965
◉NCLEX-PN. Answer: First computerized adaptive test 1994
◉Crimean War. Answer: 1853-1865
◉Sisters of Mercy. Answer: Tended to Russian troops
◉Sisters of Charity. Answer: Tended to the French
, ◉Nightingale and Crimean war. Answer: Took 38 self proclaimed
nurses
◉Mary Seacole. Answer: nurse from Jamaica, used her own money
to build a lodging house & turned second floor into a hospital.
◉Nightingale Training School. Answer: 1850 St Thomas Hospital in
England, 1 year program
◉Lystra Gretter. Answer: modified the Hippocratic Oath in 1893 and
named it The Nightingale Pledge
◉Dorothea Lynde Dix. Answer: the most important figure in
boosting awareness of the plight of the mentally ill, 1860s
◉Ballard School. Answer: First school to establish a practical nurse
training program in 1893, focused on home health care for
chronically ill, invalids, children, and elderly
◉Before WW1. Answer: Most nursing was home nursing
◉Henry Street Settlement. Answer: New York, 1893, Lillian Wald
taught families in the slums basics of cleanliness and control of
communicable diseases
