NUR 115 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Mildred Montag - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Founded ADN education 1952
Lillian Wald - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Founded the Henry st. Settlement and public health nursing.
Hildegard Peplau - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Pioneer in nursing theory
Mary Mahoney - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅First black trained nurse
Mary Breckinridge - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Nurse midwife who founded the Frontier Nursing Service
Clara Barton - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Who founded the American Red Cross
Mary Ann Bickerdyke - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A civil war lay nurse who rallied the soldiers, cleaning up
the camps and soldiers.
Dorothea Dix - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅An avid reformer or care of the mentally ill
Florence Nightingale - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Founder of modern nursing and nursing education
Adelaide Nutting - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅First professor of nursing in the world
Isabel Hampton Robb - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Helped to form the National League Of Nursing and the
American Nurses Association.
Nursing Journals - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Written for nurses; offer the latest info. Research results.
Non-Professional Magazines/Journals - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Written for the public
,Midlands Tech Colleges nursing program philosophy of nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Support the
mission of the college
Affirm the worth and dignity of the individual
Nursing is an art and a science with varying levels of practitioners
Education is a lifelong process
Nursing education includes preparation and general academics and technical skills
Contains the scope of practice for the LPN and the RN
Philosophy of nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Statement of beliefs about nursing
Expressions of values in nursing
Used for decision making and the practice of nursing
Individual nurses' philosophies
Collective philosophies- hospitals and schools of nursing
10 professional nursing values - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Compassion/Caring
Accountability/Responsibility
Ethical
Knowledgeable
Teamwork
Patient advocate
Holistic
Competent
Openness to learning
Respectful
What are values? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Freely chosen principles, ideals, or standards
Gives meaning and direction to a person's life
Abstract representation of what is right or desirable
, Values are developed as culture, society, and individuals change
Nurses need to understand their own value system. Non-judgmental approach
Beliefs - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Intellectual acceptance of something as true or correct
Shown through attitudes and behaviors
It is important to know ones beliefs because the practice of nursing frequently challenges a nurses
beliefs
Most recent published set of beliefs is the Nursing Code Of Ethics
What is holistic nursing? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅(Nourishes the whole person) (body, mind, and spirit)
Nursing is an open system
Nursing provided several health care services including maintaining health, preventing disease, restoring
health, and achieving a peaceful death
Involves collaborating with patients and families
South Carolina's definition of registered nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅"Practice of registered nursing"
means the performance of health care acts in the nursing process that involve assessment, analysis,
intervention, and evaluation.
National League of Nursings definition of nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Not a specific def. based on 4
core values
Caring- promoting health healing and hope
Integrity- respecting the dignity and moral wholeness of the individual
Diversity- affecting the uniqueness of and the differences among persons
Excellence- creating and implementing transformative strategies
American Nurses Association (ANA)definition of nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Nursing is the
protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury,
alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy and the
care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.
Mildred Montag - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Founded ADN education 1952
Lillian Wald - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Founded the Henry st. Settlement and public health nursing.
Hildegard Peplau - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Pioneer in nursing theory
Mary Mahoney - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅First black trained nurse
Mary Breckinridge - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Nurse midwife who founded the Frontier Nursing Service
Clara Barton - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Who founded the American Red Cross
Mary Ann Bickerdyke - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A civil war lay nurse who rallied the soldiers, cleaning up
the camps and soldiers.
Dorothea Dix - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅An avid reformer or care of the mentally ill
Florence Nightingale - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Founder of modern nursing and nursing education
Adelaide Nutting - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅First professor of nursing in the world
Isabel Hampton Robb - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Helped to form the National League Of Nursing and the
American Nurses Association.
Nursing Journals - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Written for nurses; offer the latest info. Research results.
Non-Professional Magazines/Journals - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Written for the public
,Midlands Tech Colleges nursing program philosophy of nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Support the
mission of the college
Affirm the worth and dignity of the individual
Nursing is an art and a science with varying levels of practitioners
Education is a lifelong process
Nursing education includes preparation and general academics and technical skills
Contains the scope of practice for the LPN and the RN
Philosophy of nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Statement of beliefs about nursing
Expressions of values in nursing
Used for decision making and the practice of nursing
Individual nurses' philosophies
Collective philosophies- hospitals and schools of nursing
10 professional nursing values - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Compassion/Caring
Accountability/Responsibility
Ethical
Knowledgeable
Teamwork
Patient advocate
Holistic
Competent
Openness to learning
Respectful
What are values? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Freely chosen principles, ideals, or standards
Gives meaning and direction to a person's life
Abstract representation of what is right or desirable
, Values are developed as culture, society, and individuals change
Nurses need to understand their own value system. Non-judgmental approach
Beliefs - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Intellectual acceptance of something as true or correct
Shown through attitudes and behaviors
It is important to know ones beliefs because the practice of nursing frequently challenges a nurses
beliefs
Most recent published set of beliefs is the Nursing Code Of Ethics
What is holistic nursing? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅(Nourishes the whole person) (body, mind, and spirit)
Nursing is an open system
Nursing provided several health care services including maintaining health, preventing disease, restoring
health, and achieving a peaceful death
Involves collaborating with patients and families
South Carolina's definition of registered nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅"Practice of registered nursing"
means the performance of health care acts in the nursing process that involve assessment, analysis,
intervention, and evaluation.
National League of Nursings definition of nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Not a specific def. based on 4
core values
Caring- promoting health healing and hope
Integrity- respecting the dignity and moral wholeness of the individual
Diversity- affecting the uniqueness of and the differences among persons
Excellence- creating and implementing transformative strategies
American Nurses Association (ANA)definition of nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Nursing is the
protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury,
alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy and the
care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.
