Contemporary Nursing Exam 1
Questions and answer
Who are the largest group of healthcare providers? - correct answer-Nurses
What percent of nurses are women - correct answer-90%
Is the nursing profession ageing? - correct answer-rise in number of nurses under 30,
increase of nurses over 60
What percent of RNs actively work? - correct answer-85%
What percent of RNs are ethnic? - correct answer-16.8%
What do clinical ladder programs do? - correct answer-Allow nurses to progress upward
through direct-care roles
What did Florence Nightingale write - correct answer-She wrote Notes on Nursing
Who founded the first training school for nurses and where? - correct answer-Florence
Nightingale in London
True or False...Before Nightingale, men provided most of the nursing care. - correct
answer-False
What are the four technological developments? - correct answer-Genetics, Biomedical,
Information, and Knowledge
What were the requirements for early nursing school applicants? - correct answer-"good
breeding", submission to authority, sensitivity, intelligence
In early training who were discriminated against? - correct answer-Males,
African-Americans, and Jewish applicants
What was the first school exclusively for men? - correct answer-School for Male Nurses at
the NYC training school
What was the first school exclusively for African Americans? - correct answer-Atlanta Baptist
Female Seminary
What was formed at the Chicago World's Fair when several nursing leaders emerged to
share ideas? - correct answer-the National League for Nursing
Who founded the American Nurses Association? - correct answer-Isabel Hampton Robb
, What is the ANA? - correct answer-American Nurses Association
Where was the Henry Street Settlement est. and by who? - correct answer-Est. in NYC by
Lillian Wald
What was the purpose of the Henry Street Settlement? - correct answer-to address serious
health conditions of immigrants with visiting nurses, well-baby clinics, disease prevention,
health education, and minor illness treatment
Who fought for safe contraception and family planning for women? - correct
answer-Margaret Sanger
Who established the Stillman House and what was? - correct answer-Jessie Sleet Scales
and Elizabeth Tyler...It was a branch of the Henry Street Settlement for colored people
What does the Frontier Nursing Service do? - correct answer-Midwifery program, worked in
rural Appalachian Mountains to serve the needs of poverty- stricken residents
What happened when the Hill-burton Act funded construction to hospitals? - correct
answer-rapid expansion of facilities resulted in an acute shortage of nurses
What did the Vietnam War do for nurses? - correct answer-stretched boundaries of nursing
practice in jungle mobile hospitals, emergency procedures
What did HIV do for health care? - correct answer-prevention measures were taken included
a massive change in the daily routine for nurses (needles use and disposal, glove use, strict
protocols)
How did the War in Iraq and Afghanistan affect health care? - correct answer-improved inital
care in the field prevents more death and increased the number of live soldiers with serious
injuries ( missing limbs, PTSD, neurological deficits)
How did the Johnson & Johnson campaign help nurses? - correct answer-It enhanced their
image and improved recruitment
How is genetics a technological development? - correct answer-genomics, epigenetic, and
pharmacogenetics will shape the foreseeable future of healthcare and nursing practice
How is Biomedical a technological development? - correct answer-nurses take responsibility
for monitoring and responding to data generated by complex machines or implantable
devices
How is Information a technological development? - correct answer-Nurses assume
responsibility for data entry and retrieval using computer-based applications to process
information
Knowledge - correct answer-"technology of the mind" involves the use of computer systems
to transform info into knowledge and generate new knowledge
Questions and answer
Who are the largest group of healthcare providers? - correct answer-Nurses
What percent of nurses are women - correct answer-90%
Is the nursing profession ageing? - correct answer-rise in number of nurses under 30,
increase of nurses over 60
What percent of RNs actively work? - correct answer-85%
What percent of RNs are ethnic? - correct answer-16.8%
What do clinical ladder programs do? - correct answer-Allow nurses to progress upward
through direct-care roles
What did Florence Nightingale write - correct answer-She wrote Notes on Nursing
Who founded the first training school for nurses and where? - correct answer-Florence
Nightingale in London
True or False...Before Nightingale, men provided most of the nursing care. - correct
answer-False
What are the four technological developments? - correct answer-Genetics, Biomedical,
Information, and Knowledge
What were the requirements for early nursing school applicants? - correct answer-"good
breeding", submission to authority, sensitivity, intelligence
In early training who were discriminated against? - correct answer-Males,
African-Americans, and Jewish applicants
What was the first school exclusively for men? - correct answer-School for Male Nurses at
the NYC training school
What was the first school exclusively for African Americans? - correct answer-Atlanta Baptist
Female Seminary
What was formed at the Chicago World's Fair when several nursing leaders emerged to
share ideas? - correct answer-the National League for Nursing
Who founded the American Nurses Association? - correct answer-Isabel Hampton Robb
, What is the ANA? - correct answer-American Nurses Association
Where was the Henry Street Settlement est. and by who? - correct answer-Est. in NYC by
Lillian Wald
What was the purpose of the Henry Street Settlement? - correct answer-to address serious
health conditions of immigrants with visiting nurses, well-baby clinics, disease prevention,
health education, and minor illness treatment
Who fought for safe contraception and family planning for women? - correct
answer-Margaret Sanger
Who established the Stillman House and what was? - correct answer-Jessie Sleet Scales
and Elizabeth Tyler...It was a branch of the Henry Street Settlement for colored people
What does the Frontier Nursing Service do? - correct answer-Midwifery program, worked in
rural Appalachian Mountains to serve the needs of poverty- stricken residents
What happened when the Hill-burton Act funded construction to hospitals? - correct
answer-rapid expansion of facilities resulted in an acute shortage of nurses
What did the Vietnam War do for nurses? - correct answer-stretched boundaries of nursing
practice in jungle mobile hospitals, emergency procedures
What did HIV do for health care? - correct answer-prevention measures were taken included
a massive change in the daily routine for nurses (needles use and disposal, glove use, strict
protocols)
How did the War in Iraq and Afghanistan affect health care? - correct answer-improved inital
care in the field prevents more death and increased the number of live soldiers with serious
injuries ( missing limbs, PTSD, neurological deficits)
How did the Johnson & Johnson campaign help nurses? - correct answer-It enhanced their
image and improved recruitment
How is genetics a technological development? - correct answer-genomics, epigenetic, and
pharmacogenetics will shape the foreseeable future of healthcare and nursing practice
How is Biomedical a technological development? - correct answer-nurses take responsibility
for monitoring and responding to data generated by complex machines or implantable
devices
How is Information a technological development? - correct answer-Nurses assume
responsibility for data entry and retrieval using computer-based applications to process
information
Knowledge - correct answer-"technology of the mind" involves the use of computer systems
to transform info into knowledge and generate new knowledge
