NURSING LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE FOR THE LPN/LVN 7TH
EDITION BY TAMARA R. DAHLKEMPER
9781719641487CHAPTER 1-20 COMPLETE GUIDE /
LATEST 2023-2024
, Chapter 1. Historical Perspectives 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 learner
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 nursing attendant 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 nursing attendant interprets this behavior as
indicating the natives believe sickness 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 nursing attendants, caring for
the sick and thepoor?
1. The Presbyterian Church
2. Salerno
, 3. Jewish scholars
4. Convent deaconesses
5. What is a crucial issue the nursing attendant 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 learner 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 nursing attendant demonstrates Florence Nightingale’s theory of
nursing withwhat intervention?
1. Respecting the client’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 nursing attendants how to
deliver the
highest quality of nursing care.
8. What action performed by the nursing attendant directly resulted from the
contributionmade by Linda Richards?
1. Using an antiseptic before administering an
injection
2. Exploring the psychosocial needs of the
client
3. Documenting client care in the medical
record
4. Listening to a client describe his or her
condition
, 9. After graduating from nursing school, the graduate takes a licensure
examination as the result of what nursing attendant’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
learners learn when attending the Ballard School in New York in 1893?
1. Political advocacy
2. Homemaking
3. Communication
4. Carpentry
11. The nursing attendant responds to an alarm on a pulse oximeter and sees
the client’soxygen saturation is reading 38%. The nursing attendant observes the client,
noting a respiratory rate of 12 breaths per minute, pink mucous membranes, and easy
regular respirations.
The nursing attendant concludes the pulse oximeter is not reading accurately.
Whose theory ofnursing is this nursing attendant 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 nursing attendants should be
licensed.
2. Promotion of good health and treating the ill
are nursing priorities.
3. Nursing attendants could simultaneously have
a career
and a marriage.
4. Organisms cause infection.
13. What was Mary Eliza Mahoney’s contribution to nursing?
1. She organized the first visiting nursing
attendant
association.
2. She founded the American Journal of
Nursing.
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE FOR THE LPN/LVN 7TH
EDITION BY TAMARA R. DAHLKEMPER
9781719641487CHAPTER 1-20 COMPLETE GUIDE /
LATEST 2023-2024
, Chapter 1. Historical Perspectives 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 learner
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 nursing attendant 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 nursing attendant interprets this behavior as
indicating the natives believe sickness 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 nursing attendants, caring for
the sick and thepoor?
1. The Presbyterian Church
2. Salerno
, 3. Jewish scholars
4. Convent deaconesses
5. What is a crucial issue the nursing attendant 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 learner 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 nursing attendant demonstrates Florence Nightingale’s theory of
nursing withwhat intervention?
1. Respecting the client’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 nursing attendants how to
deliver the
highest quality of nursing care.
8. What action performed by the nursing attendant directly resulted from the
contributionmade by Linda Richards?
1. Using an antiseptic before administering an
injection
2. Exploring the psychosocial needs of the
client
3. Documenting client care in the medical
record
4. Listening to a client describe his or her
condition
, 9. After graduating from nursing school, the graduate takes a licensure
examination as the result of what nursing attendant’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
learners learn when attending the Ballard School in New York in 1893?
1. Political advocacy
2. Homemaking
3. Communication
4. Carpentry
11. The nursing attendant responds to an alarm on a pulse oximeter and sees
the client’soxygen saturation is reading 38%. The nursing attendant observes the client,
noting a respiratory rate of 12 breaths per minute, pink mucous membranes, and easy
regular respirations.
The nursing attendant concludes the pulse oximeter is not reading accurately.
Whose theory ofnursing is this nursing attendant 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 nursing attendants should be
licensed.
2. Promotion of good health and treating the ill
are nursing priorities.
3. Nursing attendants could simultaneously have
a career
and a marriage.
4. Organisms cause infection.
13. What was Mary Eliza Mahoney’s contribution to nursing?
1. She organized the first visiting nursing
attendant
association.
2. She founded the American Journal of
Nursing.
