TEST BANK FOR FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS
AND SKILLS FOR NURSING 6TH EDITION
WILLIAMS ( All chapters 2024)
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,Chapter 01: Nursing and the Health Care
System
Williams: deWit's Fundamental Concepts
and Skills for Nursing, 6th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1 Florence Nightingale’s contributions to
nursing practice and education:
a are historically important but have no
validity for nursing today
b were neither recognized nor
appreciated in her own time
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,c were a major factor in reducing the
death rate in the Crimean War
d were limited only to the care of severe
traumatic wounds
ANSWER: C
By improving sanitation, nutrition
ventilation, and handwashing techniques,
Florence Nightingale’s nurses dramatically
reduced the death rate from injuries in the
Crimean War
DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF:
p 2 OBJ: Theory #1 TOP: Nursing History
KEY: Nursing Process Step: N/A MSC:
NCLEX: N/A
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, 2 Early nursing education and care in the
United States:
a were directed at community health
b provided independence for women
through education and employment
c were an educational model based in
institutions of higher learning
d have continued to be entirely focused
on hospital nursing
ANSWER: B
Because of the influence of early
nNuUrRsiSnIgNGleTaBdeCrOs,Mnursing
education became more formalized through
apprenticeships in Nightingale schools that
offered independence to women through
education and employment
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