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Chapter 1. Historical Perspectives and Current Trends
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Chapter 1: Historical Perspective and Current Trends
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Multiple Choice cr
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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c 1. The nursing student predominantly uses knowledge about the history of
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cr nursing for what purpose?
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1. To understand the professional choices open cr cr cr cr cr
to the student cr cr
2. To prevent making medication errors in cr cr cr cr cr
practice
3. To determine what geographical area is the cr cr cr cr cr cr
best place to practice cr cr cr
4. To reduce the cost of delivering quality cr cr cr cr cr cr
healthcare
c 2. r The nurse is working in an underdeveloped country and observes the cr cr cr cr cr cr cr cr cr cr
cr natives lighting ritual fires and pounding on primitive drums around the sick person to
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cr promote recovery. The nurse interprets this behavior as indicating the natives believe
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cr illness results from what?
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1. Pathogens and genetics cr c r
2. Evil spirits cr
3. Tides and planets cr cr
4. Plants and animals cr cr
c3. The person credited with making a written record of healthcare practices and
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cr removing the mythical aspect of healthcare is who?
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1. Hammurabi
2. Florence Nightingale cr
3. Hippocrates
4. Apollo
c r 4. Who served as the first public health nurses, caring for the sick and the poor?
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1. The Presbyterian Church cr cr
2. Salerno
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4. Convent deaconesses c r
5. What is a crucial issue the nurse working in the late industrialization era
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cr would need to address in order to promote health?
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1. Reducing spread of infection cr cr cr
2. Reducing sedentary lifestyle cr cr
3. Teaching proper use of medications cr cr cr cr
4. Teaching use of car seats cr cr cr cr
6. What types of skills would a nursing student learn while attending
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cr Kaiserworth Deaconess Institution in 1836?
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1. Administering immunizations c r
2. Assisting in surgery cr cr
3. Washing and changing bed linens cr cr cr cr
4. Developing a plan of care cr cr cr cr
7. The nurse demonstrates Florence Nightingale’s theory of nursing with
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cr what intervention?
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1. Respecting the patient’s culture and cr cr cr cr
incorporating cultural needs in the plan of care cr cr cr cr cr cr cr
2. Promoting good health and treating those who cr cr cr cr cr c r
are ill in a holistic manner
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3. Understanding how to motivate people to cr cr cr cr cr
practice a healthy lifestyle and reduce risks
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4. Teaching other nurses how to deliver the cr cr cr cr cr cr
highest quality of nursing care. cr cr cr cr
8. What action performed by the nurse directly resulted from the contribution
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cr made by Linda Richards?
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1. Using an antiseptic before administering an cr cr c r cr cr
injection
2. Exploring the psychosocial needs of the cr cr c r cr cr
patient
3. Documenting patient care in the medical cr cr cr cr cr
record
4. Listening to a patient describe his or her cr cr cr cr cr cr cr
condition
, 9. After graduating from nursing school, the graduate takes a licensure
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cr examination as the result of what nurse’s contribution?
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1. Florence Nightingale cr
2. MaryAdelaid Nutting cr cr
3. Lavinia L. Dock cr cr
4. Isabel Hampton Robb cr cr
10. In addition to caring for the sick, what other skills would the first LPN
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cr students learn when attending the Ballard School in New York in 1893?
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1. Political advocacy cr
2. Homemaking
3. Communication
4. Carpentry
11. The nurse responds to an alarm on a pulse oximeter and sees the patient’s
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oxygen saturation is reading 38%. The nurse observes the patient, noting a respiratory rate of
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12 breaths per minute, pink mucous membranes, and easy regular respirations.
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The nurse concludes the pulse oximeter is not reading accurately. Whose theory of nursing
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is this nurse demonstrating?
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1. Annie Goodrich cr
2. Lillian D. Wald cr cr
3. Florence Nightingale cr
4. Linda Richards cr
c r 12. What statement describes Florence Nightingale’s beliefs about nursing?
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1. Practicing nurses should be licensed. cr cr cr cr
2. Promotion of good health and treating the ill cr cr cr cr cr cr cr
are nursing priorities. c r cr
3. Nurses could simultaneously have a career cr cr cr cr c r
and a marriage. c r cr
4. Organisms cause infection. c r c r
c r 13. What was Mary Eliza Mahoney’s contribution to nursing?
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1. She organized the first visiting nurse cr cr cr cr cr
association.
2. She founded the American Journal of cr cr cr cr cr
Nursing.
, 3. She founded the National League of Nursing.
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4. She worked for the acceptance ofAfrican
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Americans into the nursing profession. cr cr c r cr
c 14. What professional organization was the first to focus on licensed practical
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cr nurses (LPNs)?
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1. NationalAssociation for Practical Nurse cr cr cr cr
Education and Services (NAPNES) cr cr c r
2. National Federation of Licensed Practical cr cr cr cr
Nurses (NFLPN) cr
3. National League for Nursing (NLN) cr cr cr cr
4. American NursesAssociation (ANA) cr cr cr
c r 15. What statement accurately describes the NFLPN?
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1. It represents both registered nurses (RNs) and cr cr cr cr cr cr
LPNs.
2. It represents LPNs/LVNs only. cr cr cr
3. It is open to anyone interested in nursing. cr cr cr cr cr cr cr
4. It is open to anyone in the healthcare field. cr cr cr cr cr cr cr cr
c r 16. What organizations represent only LPNs/LVNs?
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1. ANAand NLN cr cr
2. NFLPN and NLN cr cr
3. NAPNES and NFLPN cr cr
4. NAPNES andANA cr cr
c17. The nurse working in mental health nursing honors what historical nurse for
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cr working to improve care of the mentally ill?
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1. Clara Barton c r
2. Florence Nightingale cr
3. Dorothea Dix cr
4. Lillian D. Wald cr cr
c r 18. What is the difference between the LPN and LVN nursing title?
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1. LPNs have a longer educational program than cr cr cr cr cr c r
LVNs.
2. LVNs and LPNs have the same duties and cr cr cr cr cr cr cr
skills, just different titles. cr cr cr