NURSING BY KNECHT ALL CHAPTERS 2026
EXAM REVIEW STUDY GUIDE BUNDLED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS PREMIUM
◉ Nightingale's Core Belief About Nursing. Answer: A belief in
perfection
No licensure
Eliminating prejudice
◉ A belief in perfection. Answer: Nursing was a sacred calling, a
commitment to work for mankind not a business
◉ No license. Answer: To her it was too much like nurses being in a
union
◉ eliminating prejudice. Answer: Against a better class of women
entering nursing and created a push toward the development of
nursing as a respectable vocation
◉ Present practical nurse is now trained in an educational program.
Answer: Theory courses
Clinical simulation
, Clinical hours
◉ Entering the nursing practice. Answer: Formal education
programs are the norm for all nurses
Length of full time program for modern practical (or vocational)
nurse is approximately 9 months to 1 year I most states
Most state regulations stipulate that lpns/lvns work under
supervision of the registered nurse (RN; or health care provider
◉ Early training schools in America. Answer: 1849, Pastor Fliedner
of Germany helped to establish the first formal training program for
nurses in the US, the Pittsburgh Infirmary
.as the nursing shortage continued hospital based schools of nursing
emerged as a cost effective labor force for the hospitals
◉ Civil War (1861-1865). Answer: 1800 women working in
hospitals were victims of deep prejudice
During the civil war most battlefield nursing was performed by
infantrymen
◉ During civil war Dorothea Lynda Dix superintend of nurses.
Answer: Recruited a corps of female nurses she went on to establish
the first hospital for the mentally ill