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NRS 100 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS 2024
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NRS 100Florence Nightingale - answerFirst Theorist
Responsible for decline in Crimean War mortality
Famous for being a statistician
Founded a nursing school that became a model of nursing education
Clara Barton - answerActive during the Civil War
Founded the American Red Cross
Dorothea Dix - answerSuperintendent of the female nurses of the Union Army
Organized hospitals
Marry Ann Ball (Mother Bickerdyke) - answerOrganized ambulance service during the
Civil War
Harriet Tubman - answerNot a trained nurse; cared for people as a lay person
She led over 300 slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad
Mary Eliza Mahoney - answerFirst trained African American nurse
Isabel Hampton Robb - answerFounded the Nurses' Associated Alumnae of the United
States and Canada
Became the ANA
Published first nursing journal: American Journal of Nursing October 1, 1900
Lillian Wald - answerFirst visiting nurse
Founded the Henry Street Settlement with Mary Brewster in 1893
Responded to problems caused by industrialization and urban crowding
Mary Adeline Nutting - answerFirst professor of nursing at a university setting: Columbia
University Teacher's College
Mary Breckinridge - answerPioneer in rural health; founded the Frontier Nursing Service
Trained as a nurse-midwife in England
Margaret Sanger - answerFounded Planned Parenthood's parent organization fought
endlessly for access to birth control
Mildred Montag - answerDeveloped the ADN concept to address the nursing shortage
Sojourner Truth - answerFamous for her work as an abolitionist and civil rights advocate
, Roles of the Professional Nurse - answerCaregiver
Advocate
Critical Thinker
Teacher/Educator
Communicator
Manager
Researcher
Rehabilitator
Caregiver - answerHelp patients maintain and regain health, manage disease and
symptoms, and attain a maximal level of function and independence through the healing
process
Meet all healthcare needs by providing measures to restore a patient's emotional,
spiritual, and social well-being.
Help patients and families set realistic goals and meet them
Advocate - answerProtect patient's human and legal rights
Provide assistance in asserting these rights if the need arises
Act on behalf of the patient
Educator - answerExplain concepts and facts about health
Describe the reason for routine care activities
Demonstrate procedures such as self-care activities
Reinforce learning or patient behavior
Evaluate the patient's progress in learning
Methods that match patient's capabilities and needs and incorporate other resources
such as the family
Communicator - answerCentral to the nurse-patient relationship
Helps with knowing your patient's, including their strengths, weaknesses and needs
Without makes it impossible to perform other roles of the professional nurse
Manager - answerEstablish and environment for collaborative patient-centered care to
provide safe, quality care with positive patient outcomes
Coordinate activities of members of the nursing staff in delivering nursing care and has
personnel, policy, and budgetary responsibility for a specific nursing unit or agency
Appropriate leadership styles to reflect the mission and values of the health care
organization
Bedside nurse= managing patient load during a shift
Researcher - answerKnowing best practice and outcome for patient
One who uses the latest information to care for her/his patients and keeps up to date
with developments. It may include participating in research but that is not necessary
Rehabilitator - answerHelps patients achieve and maintain their highest quality of life
after illness/ injury
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