NFDN FINAL STUDY PAPER 2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
●● Jeanne Mance. Answer: Founded Hotel Dieu de Ville in Montreal;
Founded first hospital, CNA gives an award in her honor
●● Marguerite d'Youville. Answer: Founder of Sisters of Charity of
Montreal, which later became known as the Grey Nuns
●● Florence Nightingale. Answer: Founder of modern nursing; Proved
that a clean environment led to reduced disease and wound infection
●● Mary Agnes Snively. Answer: First nursing superintendent of
Toronto General Hospital School of Nursing, recognized nursing as a
unique profession
●● WHO Definition of Health. Answer: a state of complete physical,
mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity
●● 3 Historical Approaches to Health. Answer: Medical, Behavioral and
Soci-Environmental
, ●● Medical Approach. Answer: Focuses on treatment of disease; fixing
the problem
●● Behavioral Approach. Answer: Promoted individual responsibility
for health
●● Socio-Environmental. Answer: Combination of medical and
behavioral approach; health is tied to the social structure (poverty, air
pollution)
●● Nursing Theory. Answer: Set of ideas used to describe, explain or
predict the physical and social worlds
●● Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Answer: Physiological, Safety,
Belonging/Love, Self Esteem and Self Actualization
●● Erikson's Psychosocial Stages of Development. Answer: Trust vs
Mistrust (birth-1), Autonomy vs Sense of Shame and Doubt (1-3),
Initiative vs Guilt (3-6), Industry vs Inferiority (6-11), Identity vs Role
Confusion (12-18), Intimacy vs Isolation (18-35), Generativity vs Self
Absorption and Stagnation (35-65), Integrity vs Despair (65 and over)
●● Inductive Reasoning. Answer: Leads to broad ideas
●● Deductive Reasoning. Answer: Leads to specific ideas
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
●● Jeanne Mance. Answer: Founded Hotel Dieu de Ville in Montreal;
Founded first hospital, CNA gives an award in her honor
●● Marguerite d'Youville. Answer: Founder of Sisters of Charity of
Montreal, which later became known as the Grey Nuns
●● Florence Nightingale. Answer: Founder of modern nursing; Proved
that a clean environment led to reduced disease and wound infection
●● Mary Agnes Snively. Answer: First nursing superintendent of
Toronto General Hospital School of Nursing, recognized nursing as a
unique profession
●● WHO Definition of Health. Answer: a state of complete physical,
mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity
●● 3 Historical Approaches to Health. Answer: Medical, Behavioral and
Soci-Environmental
, ●● Medical Approach. Answer: Focuses on treatment of disease; fixing
the problem
●● Behavioral Approach. Answer: Promoted individual responsibility
for health
●● Socio-Environmental. Answer: Combination of medical and
behavioral approach; health is tied to the social structure (poverty, air
pollution)
●● Nursing Theory. Answer: Set of ideas used to describe, explain or
predict the physical and social worlds
●● Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Answer: Physiological, Safety,
Belonging/Love, Self Esteem and Self Actualization
●● Erikson's Psychosocial Stages of Development. Answer: Trust vs
Mistrust (birth-1), Autonomy vs Sense of Shame and Doubt (1-3),
Initiative vs Guilt (3-6), Industry vs Inferiority (6-11), Identity vs Role
Confusion (12-18), Intimacy vs Isolation (18-35), Generativity vs Self
Absorption and Stagnation (35-65), Integrity vs Despair (65 and over)
●● Inductive Reasoning. Answer: Leads to broad ideas
●● Deductive Reasoning. Answer: Leads to specific ideas
