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Professional Nursing, I & II OL Quiz 1
1. In the 1970s, this publication established the connection between social issues and the role of
the nurse:
A) The IOM Report on Medicine
B) The IOM Core Competencies
C) Hospitals, Paternalism, and the Role of the Nurse
D) National Nursing Journal
2. What did Isabel Hampton Robb do as the first president of the American Nurses Association?
A) Ensured that vulnerable populations were recognized by nurses
B) Wrote forceful editorials
C) Obtained medical care for mothers and babies in rural America
D) Organized the nursing profession at the national level
3. How did the Industrial Revolution affect health care?
A) It brought many more caretakers into the workforce as doctors and nurses.
B) It created crowded workplaces that were breeding grounds for disease.
C) It forced children to become independent at a younger age.
D) It brought about many new public health laws.
4. How did the 1948 Brown report on nursing education change the focus of nursing education?
A) Nursing schools began to view accreditation and standardization as necessary steps for
success.
B) Nurses were then required to attend baccalaureate programs.
C) There was a movement toward hospital-based nursing schools.
D) The National League for Nursing was created in response to this report.
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5. How might a critic of Florence Nightingale's nursing image describe a nurse?
A) As powerless
B) As uncaring
C) As a change agent
D) As uneducated
6. What does belonging to a professional nursing association do for the nurse?
A) It costs money and time.
B) It allows nurses to be nationally/locally active and to improve leadership skills.
C) It gives lobbyists more money to use in Washington, DC.
D) It helps nurses get jobs.
7. The standards of practice for the American Nurses Association include which of
the following?
A) Assessment
B) Crisis management
C) Data recording
D) Rounding practices
8. Knowledge workers recognize that change is:
A) something to be avoided.
B) inevitable in health care.
C) a barrier in many situations.
D) experienced mostly by patients.
9. Dichotomous thinking limits choices because it means someone is looking at an issue as
being:
A) either good or bad.
B) partially right and partially wrong.
C) correct or incorrect
D) unfounded.
Professional Nursing, I & II OL Quiz 1
1. In the 1970s, this publication established the connection between social issues and the role of
the nurse:
A) The IOM Report on Medicine
B) The IOM Core Competencies
C) Hospitals, Paternalism, and the Role of the Nurse
D) National Nursing Journal
2. What did Isabel Hampton Robb do as the first president of the American Nurses Association?
A) Ensured that vulnerable populations were recognized by nurses
B) Wrote forceful editorials
C) Obtained medical care for mothers and babies in rural America
D) Organized the nursing profession at the national level
3. How did the Industrial Revolution affect health care?
A) It brought many more caretakers into the workforce as doctors and nurses.
B) It created crowded workplaces that were breeding grounds for disease.
C) It forced children to become independent at a younger age.
D) It brought about many new public health laws.
4. How did the 1948 Brown report on nursing education change the focus of nursing education?
A) Nursing schools began to view accreditation and standardization as necessary steps for
success.
B) Nurses were then required to attend baccalaureate programs.
C) There was a movement toward hospital-based nursing schools.
D) The National League for Nursing was created in response to this report.
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5. How might a critic of Florence Nightingale's nursing image describe a nurse?
A) As powerless
B) As uncaring
C) As a change agent
D) As uneducated
6. What does belonging to a professional nursing association do for the nurse?
A) It costs money and time.
B) It allows nurses to be nationally/locally active and to improve leadership skills.
C) It gives lobbyists more money to use in Washington, DC.
D) It helps nurses get jobs.
7. The standards of practice for the American Nurses Association include which of
the following?
A) Assessment
B) Crisis management
C) Data recording
D) Rounding practices
8. Knowledge workers recognize that change is:
A) something to be avoided.
B) inevitable in health care.
C) a barrier in many situations.
D) experienced mostly by patients.
9. Dichotomous thinking limits choices because it means someone is looking at an issue as
being:
A) either good or bad.
B) partially right and partially wrong.
C) correct or incorrect
D) unfounded.
