VNSG 1204 Unit 1&2 Practice Exam
Questions With Revised Solutions.
Purpose of Clinical performance evaluation - Answer Identify strengths and weaknesses
Measure your knowledge and ability to apply
Learning experience
Opportunity for growth in field
Time Management - Answer Necessary skill for nurses to better manage their time in the clinical area.
Helps you work smarter not harder.
Helps work more efficiently and effectively.
Decipher importance and urgent.
Helps you gain personal time.
Increase concentration - Answer External Distractions: personal study area, lighting, background noise,
internet, peers.
Internal Distractions: mental fatigue, daydreaming.
Improve Listening Skills - Answer Be an Active listener: always thinking, listening with full attention,
listen to hear, Be well rested, complete necessary work before class, focus on lesson, listen for ideas, ask
questions, make eye contact, listen to peers, ask for help.
Value of reading Journal Articles - Answer Helps stay updated on recent medical discoveries and
changes.
Development of practical nursing - Answer First school of nursing 1836.
Kaiserwerth Deaconess institute, Germany.
Famous pupil: Florence Nightingale.
1849: first hospital & nursing school, Pennsylvania.
1861-1865: Civil War.
, 1881:American Red Cross
1892: first school of Practical nursing, Brooklyn.
Florence Nightingale - Answer Lady with the lamp
Implemented cleanliness.
Decreased death rates: 420/1000-22/1000
Supervision of Nurses during Crimean war.
1860: Nightingale training school for nurses, England.
Strict admission standards.
High moral character and intelligence.
Eliminated prejudice against women from better class from entering nursing.
Mary Seacole - Answer Jamaican.
Knowledgeable in tropical medicine.
Used herbs and natural plant medicine to treat cholera, yellow fever, malaria, diarrhea.
Used her own money to build a lodging house in Crimea and turned second floor into hospital where she
nursed soldiers.
Dorthea Lynne Dix - Answer Civil war 1861-1865
Teacher: appointed superintendent of nursing
Organized corps if female nurses.
Only women, younger than 30, plain looking.
Long time advocate for better conditions for those who suffered mental illness.
Developed first hospital for the mentally ill.
Clara Barton - Answer Teacher
Rounded up supplies. Rented warehouse to store goods.
1864: superintendent of the department of nursing for the army.
Met J. Henri Durant, in Europe. (International Red Cross)
Questions With Revised Solutions.
Purpose of Clinical performance evaluation - Answer Identify strengths and weaknesses
Measure your knowledge and ability to apply
Learning experience
Opportunity for growth in field
Time Management - Answer Necessary skill for nurses to better manage their time in the clinical area.
Helps you work smarter not harder.
Helps work more efficiently and effectively.
Decipher importance and urgent.
Helps you gain personal time.
Increase concentration - Answer External Distractions: personal study area, lighting, background noise,
internet, peers.
Internal Distractions: mental fatigue, daydreaming.
Improve Listening Skills - Answer Be an Active listener: always thinking, listening with full attention,
listen to hear, Be well rested, complete necessary work before class, focus on lesson, listen for ideas, ask
questions, make eye contact, listen to peers, ask for help.
Value of reading Journal Articles - Answer Helps stay updated on recent medical discoveries and
changes.
Development of practical nursing - Answer First school of nursing 1836.
Kaiserwerth Deaconess institute, Germany.
Famous pupil: Florence Nightingale.
1849: first hospital & nursing school, Pennsylvania.
1861-1865: Civil War.
, 1881:American Red Cross
1892: first school of Practical nursing, Brooklyn.
Florence Nightingale - Answer Lady with the lamp
Implemented cleanliness.
Decreased death rates: 420/1000-22/1000
Supervision of Nurses during Crimean war.
1860: Nightingale training school for nurses, England.
Strict admission standards.
High moral character and intelligence.
Eliminated prejudice against women from better class from entering nursing.
Mary Seacole - Answer Jamaican.
Knowledgeable in tropical medicine.
Used herbs and natural plant medicine to treat cholera, yellow fever, malaria, diarrhea.
Used her own money to build a lodging house in Crimea and turned second floor into hospital where she
nursed soldiers.
Dorthea Lynne Dix - Answer Civil war 1861-1865
Teacher: appointed superintendent of nursing
Organized corps if female nurses.
Only women, younger than 30, plain looking.
Long time advocate for better conditions for those who suffered mental illness.
Developed first hospital for the mentally ill.
Clara Barton - Answer Teacher
Rounded up supplies. Rented warehouse to store goods.
1864: superintendent of the department of nursing for the army.
Met J. Henri Durant, in Europe. (International Red Cross)
