Fundamentals 117 Final Exam (Quarter 1) – Nursing Fundamentals Comprehensive Review
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Florence Nightingale - correct answer ✔✔-Founder of modern nursing
-Developed first organized training program for nurses
-Improved sanitation in battlefield hospitals
-Used statistics to prove success
Clara Barton - correct answer ✔✔-Volunteered to care for wounds and feed Union soldiers
during the Civil War
-Served as the supervisor of nurses for the Army of the James, organizing hospitals and nurses
-Established the Red Cross in the United States in 1882
Louise Schuyler - correct answer ✔✔-A nurse during the Civil War; returned to New York and
organized the New York Charities Aid Association to improve care of the sick in Bellevue Hospital
-Recommended standards for nursing education
Linda Richards - correct answer ✔✔America's first trained nurse, night superintendent Bellevue,
keeping records and order writing
Mary Elizabeth Mahoney - correct answer ✔✔Graduated from the New England Hospital for
Women and Children in 1879 as America's first African American nurse
Nora Gertrude Livingston - correct answer ✔✔Established a training program for nurses at the
Montreal General Hospital (the first 3-year program in North America)
Isabel Hampton Robb - correct answer ✔✔A leader in nursing and nursing education; organized
the nursing school at Johns Hopkins Hospital; initiated policies that included limiting the
number of hours in a days work and wrote a textbook to help student learning; the first
,president of the Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada (now American
Nurses Association).
Mary Adelaide Nutting - correct answer ✔✔Became the first professor of nursing in the world
as a faculty member of Teachers' College, Columbia University; with Lavinia Dock, published the
four-volume History of Nursing
ANA defines nursing as - correct answer ✔✔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 in the care of individuals, families,
communities, and populations
4 broad aims of nursing practice - correct answer ✔✔To promote health
To prevent illness
To restore health
To facilitate coping with disability or death
Health is defined as - correct answer ✔✔A state of optimal functioning or wellbeing. often
subjective
Healthy People 2020 - correct answer ✔✔-A set of disease prevention and health promotion
objectives for Americans to meet during the second decade of the new millennium.
-The fourth set of health goals and objectives for the U.S. that defines the nation's health
agenda and guides its health policy
Healthy People 2020 guidlines - correct answer ✔✔Attain high quality care
achieve health equity
create socal and physical environments that promote health
promote quality of life
,Licensure is defined as - correct answer ✔✔Legal permit that a government agency grants to
individuals to engage in the practice of a profession and to use a particular title
LPN Programs - correct answer ✔✔Established to teach bedside nursing care to patients
Clinical Nurse Specialist - correct answer ✔✔A nurse with an advanced degree, education, or
experience who is considered to be an expert in a specialized area of nursing; carries out direct
patient care; consultation; teaching of patients, families, and staff; and research
Nurse Practitioner - correct answer ✔✔Advanced training that enables them to work
independently of a physician
Nurse anesthetist - correct answer ✔✔A registered nurse who has received additional training
and education in the administration of anesthetic medications.
Nurse Midwife - correct answer ✔✔Provides prenatal and postnatal care, delivers babies with
uncomplicated pregnancies.
Clinical nurse leader - correct answer ✔✔Prepared at graduate level, oversees lateral
integration of care for distinct group
Nurse Educator - correct answer ✔✔A nurse, usually with an advanced degree, who teaches in
educational or clinical settings; teaches theoretical knowledge and clinical skills; conducts
research
Nurse Administrator - correct answer ✔✔Various levels of management , management and
admin of resources and personnel involved in care
, Nurse Researcher - correct answer ✔✔Advanced degree, conducts research
Nurse Entrepreneur - correct answer ✔✔A nurse, usually with an advanced degree, who may
manage a clinic or health-related business, conduct research, provide education, or serve as an
adviser or consultant to institutions, political agencies, or businesses
ICN - correct answer ✔✔Founded in 1899 first international organization of professional women
Professional nursing organizations In US - correct answer ✔✔ANA, NLN, AACN,
American Nurses Association (ANA) - correct answer ✔✔The national professional membership
association of nurses that works for the improvement of health standards and the availability of
healthcare services, fosters high professional standards for the nursing profession, and advances
the economic and general welfare of nurses
National League for Nursing (NLN) - correct answer ✔✔Professional organization whose
members represent multiple disciplines. The National League for Nursing conducts many types
of programs, including accrediting nursing education programs.
Nurse Practice Act - correct answer ✔✔Established in each state and territory that regulates the
practice of nursing
Nursing Process - correct answer ✔✔Assessment, Diagnosis, Outcome Identification, Planning,
Implementation, Evaluation
Compassion fatigue - correct answer ✔✔Loss of satisfaction from providing good patient care
Secondary traumatic stress - correct answer ✔✔Feeling of despair caused by transfer of
emotion distress from a victim to caregiver.
and Study Guide
Florence Nightingale - correct answer ✔✔-Founder of modern nursing
-Developed first organized training program for nurses
-Improved sanitation in battlefield hospitals
-Used statistics to prove success
Clara Barton - correct answer ✔✔-Volunteered to care for wounds and feed Union soldiers
during the Civil War
-Served as the supervisor of nurses for the Army of the James, organizing hospitals and nurses
-Established the Red Cross in the United States in 1882
Louise Schuyler - correct answer ✔✔-A nurse during the Civil War; returned to New York and
organized the New York Charities Aid Association to improve care of the sick in Bellevue Hospital
-Recommended standards for nursing education
Linda Richards - correct answer ✔✔America's first trained nurse, night superintendent Bellevue,
keeping records and order writing
Mary Elizabeth Mahoney - correct answer ✔✔Graduated from the New England Hospital for
Women and Children in 1879 as America's first African American nurse
Nora Gertrude Livingston - correct answer ✔✔Established a training program for nurses at the
Montreal General Hospital (the first 3-year program in North America)
Isabel Hampton Robb - correct answer ✔✔A leader in nursing and nursing education; organized
the nursing school at Johns Hopkins Hospital; initiated policies that included limiting the
number of hours in a days work and wrote a textbook to help student learning; the first
,president of the Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada (now American
Nurses Association).
Mary Adelaide Nutting - correct answer ✔✔Became the first professor of nursing in the world
as a faculty member of Teachers' College, Columbia University; with Lavinia Dock, published the
four-volume History of Nursing
ANA defines nursing as - correct answer ✔✔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 in the care of individuals, families,
communities, and populations
4 broad aims of nursing practice - correct answer ✔✔To promote health
To prevent illness
To restore health
To facilitate coping with disability or death
Health is defined as - correct answer ✔✔A state of optimal functioning or wellbeing. often
subjective
Healthy People 2020 - correct answer ✔✔-A set of disease prevention and health promotion
objectives for Americans to meet during the second decade of the new millennium.
-The fourth set of health goals and objectives for the U.S. that defines the nation's health
agenda and guides its health policy
Healthy People 2020 guidlines - correct answer ✔✔Attain high quality care
achieve health equity
create socal and physical environments that promote health
promote quality of life
,Licensure is defined as - correct answer ✔✔Legal permit that a government agency grants to
individuals to engage in the practice of a profession and to use a particular title
LPN Programs - correct answer ✔✔Established to teach bedside nursing care to patients
Clinical Nurse Specialist - correct answer ✔✔A nurse with an advanced degree, education, or
experience who is considered to be an expert in a specialized area of nursing; carries out direct
patient care; consultation; teaching of patients, families, and staff; and research
Nurse Practitioner - correct answer ✔✔Advanced training that enables them to work
independently of a physician
Nurse anesthetist - correct answer ✔✔A registered nurse who has received additional training
and education in the administration of anesthetic medications.
Nurse Midwife - correct answer ✔✔Provides prenatal and postnatal care, delivers babies with
uncomplicated pregnancies.
Clinical nurse leader - correct answer ✔✔Prepared at graduate level, oversees lateral
integration of care for distinct group
Nurse Educator - correct answer ✔✔A nurse, usually with an advanced degree, who teaches in
educational or clinical settings; teaches theoretical knowledge and clinical skills; conducts
research
Nurse Administrator - correct answer ✔✔Various levels of management , management and
admin of resources and personnel involved in care
, Nurse Researcher - correct answer ✔✔Advanced degree, conducts research
Nurse Entrepreneur - correct answer ✔✔A nurse, usually with an advanced degree, who may
manage a clinic or health-related business, conduct research, provide education, or serve as an
adviser or consultant to institutions, political agencies, or businesses
ICN - correct answer ✔✔Founded in 1899 first international organization of professional women
Professional nursing organizations In US - correct answer ✔✔ANA, NLN, AACN,
American Nurses Association (ANA) - correct answer ✔✔The national professional membership
association of nurses that works for the improvement of health standards and the availability of
healthcare services, fosters high professional standards for the nursing profession, and advances
the economic and general welfare of nurses
National League for Nursing (NLN) - correct answer ✔✔Professional organization whose
members represent multiple disciplines. The National League for Nursing conducts many types
of programs, including accrediting nursing education programs.
Nurse Practice Act - correct answer ✔✔Established in each state and territory that regulates the
practice of nursing
Nursing Process - correct answer ✔✔Assessment, Diagnosis, Outcome Identification, Planning,
Implementation, Evaluation
Compassion fatigue - correct answer ✔✔Loss of satisfaction from providing good patient care
Secondary traumatic stress - correct answer ✔✔Feeling of despair caused by transfer of
emotion distress from a victim to caregiver.
