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TEST BANK FOR BASIC
NURSING 2ND EDITION BY
TREAS ALL CHAPTERS
INCLUDED || LATEST AND
COMPLETE VERSION 2025-
2026 GRADED A+
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Chapter 1. Nursing Past & Present
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which is the most influential factor that has shaped the nursing profession?
1) Physicians’ need for handmaidens
2) Societal need for healthcare outside the home
3) Military demand for nurses in the field
4) Germ theory influence on sanitation
ANS: 3
Chapter number and title: 1, Nursing Past & Present
Chapter learning objective: Define nursing in your own words. Chapter page reference: p. 7
Heading: Historical Context of Nursing Integrated Processes: Teaching and Learning
Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care Cognitive level:
Comprehension [Understanding]
Concept: Professionalism Difficulty: Easy
Feedback
1 The physician's handmaiden was/is a nursing stereotype rather than an
influence on nursing.
2 Although there has been a need for healthcare outside the home
throughout
history, this has more influNence on the development of hospitals than
on nursing; this need provided one more setting for nursing work.
3 Throughout the centuries, stability of the government has been related
to the success of the military to protect or extend its domain. As the
survival and
well-being of soldiers are both critical, nurses provided healthcare to
the sick and injured at the battle site.
4 Germ theory and sanitation helped to improve healthcare but did not
shape
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nursing.
PTS: 1 CON: Professionalism
2. Which is an example of an illness-prevention activity?
1) Encouraging the use of a food diary
2) Joining a cancer support group
3) Administering immunization for HPV
4) Teaching a diabetic patient about his diet
ANS: 3
Chapter number and title: 1, Nursing Past & Present
Chapter learning objective: Name and recognize the four purposes of nursing care. Chapter
page reference: p. 15
Heading: Nursing Practice: Caring for Clients Integrated Processes: Nursing Process –
Implementation Client Need: Health Promotion and Maintenance
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Cognitive level: Application [Applying] Concept: Health Promotion
Difficulty: Moderate
Feedback
1 Illness-prevention activities focus on avoiding a specific disease. A
food diary is a health-promotion activity.
2 Although cancer is a disease, it is assumed that a person joining a
support group would already have the disease; therefore, this is not
disease prevention but
treatment.
3 Administering immunization for HPV is an example of illness
prevention.
4 Teaching a diabetic patient about diet is a treatment for diabetes; the
patient
already has diabetes, so it cannot prevent diabetes.
PTS: 1 CON: Health Promotion
3. Which contribution of Florence Nightingale had an immediate impact on improving
patients’ health?
1) Providing a clean environment
2) Improving nursing education
3) Changing the delivery of care in hospitals
4) Establishing nursing as a distinct profession
ANS: 1
Chapter number and title: 1, Nursing Past & Present
Chapter learning objective: Name nine expanded roles for nursing. Chapter page reference:
p. 9
Heading: Table 1-1 Roles and FNunctions of the Nurse Integrated Processes: Caring
Client Need: Health Promotion and Maintenance Cognitive level: Comprehension
[Understanding] Concept: Evidence-Based Practice
Difficulty: Easy
TEST BANK FOR BASIC
NURSING 2ND EDITION BY
TREAS ALL CHAPTERS
INCLUDED || LATEST AND
COMPLETE VERSION 2025-
2026 GRADED A+
,2|P a g e
Chapter 1. Nursing Past & Present
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which is the most influential factor that has shaped the nursing profession?
1) Physicians’ need for handmaidens
2) Societal need for healthcare outside the home
3) Military demand for nurses in the field
4) Germ theory influence on sanitation
ANS: 3
Chapter number and title: 1, Nursing Past & Present
Chapter learning objective: Define nursing in your own words. Chapter page reference: p. 7
Heading: Historical Context of Nursing Integrated Processes: Teaching and Learning
Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care Cognitive level:
Comprehension [Understanding]
Concept: Professionalism Difficulty: Easy
Feedback
1 The physician's handmaiden was/is a nursing stereotype rather than an
influence on nursing.
2 Although there has been a need for healthcare outside the home
throughout
history, this has more influNence on the development of hospitals than
on nursing; this need provided one more setting for nursing work.
3 Throughout the centuries, stability of the government has been related
to the success of the military to protect or extend its domain. As the
survival and
well-being of soldiers are both critical, nurses provided healthcare to
the sick and injured at the battle site.
4 Germ theory and sanitation helped to improve healthcare but did not
shape
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nursing.
PTS: 1 CON: Professionalism
2. Which is an example of an illness-prevention activity?
1) Encouraging the use of a food diary
2) Joining a cancer support group
3) Administering immunization for HPV
4) Teaching a diabetic patient about his diet
ANS: 3
Chapter number and title: 1, Nursing Past & Present
Chapter learning objective: Name and recognize the four purposes of nursing care. Chapter
page reference: p. 15
Heading: Nursing Practice: Caring for Clients Integrated Processes: Nursing Process –
Implementation Client Need: Health Promotion and Maintenance
, TEST BANK FOR BASIC NURSING 2ND EDITION BY TREAS
Cognitive level: Application [Applying] Concept: Health Promotion
Difficulty: Moderate
Feedback
1 Illness-prevention activities focus on avoiding a specific disease. A
food diary is a health-promotion activity.
2 Although cancer is a disease, it is assumed that a person joining a
support group would already have the disease; therefore, this is not
disease prevention but
treatment.
3 Administering immunization for HPV is an example of illness
prevention.
4 Teaching a diabetic patient about diet is a treatment for diabetes; the
patient
already has diabetes, so it cannot prevent diabetes.
PTS: 1 CON: Health Promotion
3. Which contribution of Florence Nightingale had an immediate impact on improving
patients’ health?
1) Providing a clean environment
2) Improving nursing education
3) Changing the delivery of care in hospitals
4) Establishing nursing as a distinct profession
ANS: 1
Chapter number and title: 1, Nursing Past & Present
Chapter learning objective: Name nine expanded roles for nursing. Chapter page reference:
p. 9
Heading: Table 1-1 Roles and FNunctions of the Nurse Integrated Processes: Caring
Client Need: Health Promotion and Maintenance Cognitive level: Comprehension
[Understanding] Concept: Evidence-Based Practice
Difficulty: Easy
