Introduction to Nursing Final Exam Study Guide
1. Scheduling Techniques & Time Management <Ans> Plan study
time Scheduling study periods
Exercise & study breaks
Managing your schedule
Plan time for sleep
Scheduling time for friends/family
2. Settings and Roles of RNs (1)
Settings <Ans> Hospitals
Clinics
Community-based facilities
Medical offices
Long-term settings
Private practices
Ambulatory care- nurse based practices
Extended care (nursing homes) Research
3. Settings and Roles of RNs (2)
Roles <Ans> Direct patient care
Ambulatory care
Extended care
Helping patients meet needs
Administer medications Caregiver
Communicator
Researcher Advocator
4. Advanced Practice Nurses (APN) <Ans>
,NPs CNs
CNMs
CRNA
Researchers Educators
Administrators
Advocators
5. Understanding personality types <Ans> Self knowledge helps you identify your inter-
ests and talents, knowing your personality type helps you understand how you work with
others
Ability to know your strengths and weaknesses
,6. Evolution of Nursing (1) <Ans> Influenced by social, political, and economic climate
of times
Technological advances
Theoretical shifts in medicine/science
7. Evolution of Nursing (2) <Ans> 1903- licensure laws
passed WWI- public nursing became prevalent
1945- associates program with degree
Rise of organizations
8. Public view of Nurses <Ans>
NEGATIVE Take Dr. orders
Sexual images (naughty nurse)
Immasculizing to men Uneducated
Stereotypes
9. Ways in which students and nurses can promote nursing <Ans> Become sensitive to
portrayal of nurses
Contact those responsible for negative images/portrayals Boycott
programs
Contact those responsible for good portrayals and appreciate them
10. Florence Nightingale <Ans> Mother of nursing <Ans>
Sanitation, ventilation, and nutrition
Founded first training school @ St. Thomas hospital in England
Crimean War; reduced mortality rate from 40% to 2% Supervised
team of 38 nurses
First nursing researcher
11. Mary Seacole <Ans> First black nurse (Jamaican
, nurse) Greatest black Briton in 2003
Expert on cholera
Rejected by Nightingale because of color
12. Clara Barton <Ans> Angel of
Battlefield Civil war (1861-1865)
Founded the Red Cross
Copyist and teacher NOT
A NURSE
13. Dorothea Dix <Ans> Civil war
Superintendent of Union Army nurses during the civil war Advocate
for mentally ill and prisoners
14. Mary E. Mahoney <Ans> First African American to graduate from nursing school
1. Scheduling Techniques & Time Management <Ans> Plan study
time Scheduling study periods
Exercise & study breaks
Managing your schedule
Plan time for sleep
Scheduling time for friends/family
2. Settings and Roles of RNs (1)
Settings <Ans> Hospitals
Clinics
Community-based facilities
Medical offices
Long-term settings
Private practices
Ambulatory care- nurse based practices
Extended care (nursing homes) Research
3. Settings and Roles of RNs (2)
Roles <Ans> Direct patient care
Ambulatory care
Extended care
Helping patients meet needs
Administer medications Caregiver
Communicator
Researcher Advocator
4. Advanced Practice Nurses (APN) <Ans>
,NPs CNs
CNMs
CRNA
Researchers Educators
Administrators
Advocators
5. Understanding personality types <Ans> Self knowledge helps you identify your inter-
ests and talents, knowing your personality type helps you understand how you work with
others
Ability to know your strengths and weaknesses
,6. Evolution of Nursing (1) <Ans> Influenced by social, political, and economic climate
of times
Technological advances
Theoretical shifts in medicine/science
7. Evolution of Nursing (2) <Ans> 1903- licensure laws
passed WWI- public nursing became prevalent
1945- associates program with degree
Rise of organizations
8. Public view of Nurses <Ans>
NEGATIVE Take Dr. orders
Sexual images (naughty nurse)
Immasculizing to men Uneducated
Stereotypes
9. Ways in which students and nurses can promote nursing <Ans> Become sensitive to
portrayal of nurses
Contact those responsible for negative images/portrayals Boycott
programs
Contact those responsible for good portrayals and appreciate them
10. Florence Nightingale <Ans> Mother of nursing <Ans>
Sanitation, ventilation, and nutrition
Founded first training school @ St. Thomas hospital in England
Crimean War; reduced mortality rate from 40% to 2% Supervised
team of 38 nurses
First nursing researcher
11. Mary Seacole <Ans> First black nurse (Jamaican
, nurse) Greatest black Briton in 2003
Expert on cholera
Rejected by Nightingale because of color
12. Clara Barton <Ans> Angel of
Battlefield Civil war (1861-1865)
Founded the Red Cross
Copyist and teacher NOT
A NURSE
13. Dorothea Dix <Ans> Civil war
Superintendent of Union Army nurses during the civil war Advocate
for mentally ill and prisoners
14. Mary E. Mahoney <Ans> First African American to graduate from nursing school
