NURSING 102- EXAM 1| COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |2026 LATEST
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During Florence Nightingale's time, women typically were involved in what type of work or activity? -
(Answer)They did not work outside of the home
What was the first war that Florence Nightingale was involved in? - (Answer)crimean war
3. What organization represents all RNs in the United States? - (Answer)American Nurses Association.
(ANA)
4. What is the International Honor Society for Nursing - (Answer)Sigma Theta Tau
5. Who was Dorthea Dix? - (Answer)improved conditions for the mentally ill and was a union superintendent
of Female Nurses in Civil War (
6. Who was Linda Richards? - (Answer)Americas "first trained nurse" she was a graduate of the new england
hospital program and spent most of her career moving from hospital to hospital in a continual improvement
campaign. she created the first individual patient record
7. What three individuals started the Jefferson Street Mission? - (Answer)Mary Brewster, Lavinia Dock, and
Lillian Wald
8. What did the Jefferson Street Mission later become named? - (Answer)The henry street settlement
, 9. Who was Mary Mahoney? Adelaid Nutting? Clara Barton - (Answer)mary mahoney was the first
professional black nurse in america.
adelaide nutting was the first professor of nursing
clara barton was the founder of the US red cross and civil war nurse, she organized a program for locating
missing meant in action.
10. Who was Ignaz Semmelweis? - (Answer)A doctor working in the OB ward of Vienna General Hospital in
Austria in 1847. He noticed that nearly 20% of the women under his care in "Division I" of the hospital died
shortly after childbirth. He traced this back to him and his colleagues not washing their hands after
performing autopsies.
11. Did Ignaz Semmelweis receive rightful recognition from his colleagues? - (Answer)no
12. Was organized religion and/or military establishments linked with care of the sick? - (Answer)Yes
13. Who was Margaret Sanger? - (Answer)practiced nursing until 1912, when she left the profession in order
to devote her life to educating women about birth control- specifically unwanted pregnancies to reduce the
number of abortions
14. What are the characteristics of a profession? - (Answer)autonomy, responsibility and accountability
15. What role should each nurse take to improve the image of nursing in the community - (Answer)Do not let
interprofessional or intraprofessional competition and antagonism from the past drive the present and future,
integrate their work to provide the best care, acknowledge that they share a common goal: quality patient
UPDATED |GET A+
During Florence Nightingale's time, women typically were involved in what type of work or activity? -
(Answer)They did not work outside of the home
What was the first war that Florence Nightingale was involved in? - (Answer)crimean war
3. What organization represents all RNs in the United States? - (Answer)American Nurses Association.
(ANA)
4. What is the International Honor Society for Nursing - (Answer)Sigma Theta Tau
5. Who was Dorthea Dix? - (Answer)improved conditions for the mentally ill and was a union superintendent
of Female Nurses in Civil War (
6. Who was Linda Richards? - (Answer)Americas "first trained nurse" she was a graduate of the new england
hospital program and spent most of her career moving from hospital to hospital in a continual improvement
campaign. she created the first individual patient record
7. What three individuals started the Jefferson Street Mission? - (Answer)Mary Brewster, Lavinia Dock, and
Lillian Wald
8. What did the Jefferson Street Mission later become named? - (Answer)The henry street settlement
, 9. Who was Mary Mahoney? Adelaid Nutting? Clara Barton - (Answer)mary mahoney was the first
professional black nurse in america.
adelaide nutting was the first professor of nursing
clara barton was the founder of the US red cross and civil war nurse, she organized a program for locating
missing meant in action.
10. Who was Ignaz Semmelweis? - (Answer)A doctor working in the OB ward of Vienna General Hospital in
Austria in 1847. He noticed that nearly 20% of the women under his care in "Division I" of the hospital died
shortly after childbirth. He traced this back to him and his colleagues not washing their hands after
performing autopsies.
11. Did Ignaz Semmelweis receive rightful recognition from his colleagues? - (Answer)no
12. Was organized religion and/or military establishments linked with care of the sick? - (Answer)Yes
13. Who was Margaret Sanger? - (Answer)practiced nursing until 1912, when she left the profession in order
to devote her life to educating women about birth control- specifically unwanted pregnancies to reduce the
number of abortions
14. What are the characteristics of a profession? - (Answer)autonomy, responsibility and accountability
15. What role should each nurse take to improve the image of nursing in the community - (Answer)Do not let
interprofessional or intraprofessional competition and antagonism from the past drive the present and future,
integrate their work to provide the best care, acknowledge that they share a common goal: quality patient
