Final PNVN 1111 Exam Questions And
Correct Answers
On completion of this nursing program, you will be eligible to request permission to sit for the
_____________. - answer✔✔National Council Licensing Examination
The meaning of nursing has a Latin history behind it. The original word for nursing meant,
"______________". - answer✔✔To nourish
Hospitals, or _______ as they were called, were places to contract diseases rather than to be
cured of them. - answer✔✔Pesthouses
Under the guidance of ________, the Lutheran Order of Deaconesses established the school of
nursing in Kaiser Werth, Germany. - answer✔✔A: Theodore Fliedner
In taking an interdisciplinary approach to healthcare, which of the following is essential (most
important) for the exchange of information among members of the health care team? -
answer✔✔Good Communication
How does an interdisciplinary approach to patient treatment enhance care? - answer✔✔By
preventing the fragmentation of patient care
How may a newly licensed LPN?LVN practice? - answer✔✔Under the supervision of a
physician or RN
Also known as the first nursing theorist, whose influence on nursing practice in the 19th century
was related to improvement of the patient environment as a method of health promotion? -
answer✔✔Florence Nightingale
Nurses correctly recognize what is the key determinant of their scope of practice? -
answer✔✔The state's Nurse Practice Act (NPA)
What is the title of the American Hospital Association's 1972 document that outlines the patient's
expectations to be treated with dignity and compassion? - answer✔✔Patient's Bill of Rights
As early as the 1970s, nursing leaders/ theorists identified these four major concepts: nursing,
health, patient, and environment as the basis of all nursing ___________. - answer✔✔Models of
care
Hospitals throughout the United States are changing delivery systems to Make care more cost
effective. Which of the following systems is said to maximize the use of available staff, and
reduce the number of cost of employees without compromising the quality of patient care? -
answer✔✔Cross-training
What is the main purpose of the licensing laws and the California Board for LPN/LVN? -
answer✔✔Protection of the public from unqualified people
What premise is Maslow's hierarchy of needs based on? - answer✔✔Basic needs must be met
before the next level of needs can be met
What must the nurse realize when assessing physical and social environmental factors? -
answer✔✔They have and influence/affect on health and illness
In 1930, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, and Virginia became the first states to mandate
nursing _________ as a criterion for entry to professional practice. This means the granting of
permission by the overseeing authority to engage in practice or activity that would otherwise be
illegal. - answer✔✔Licensure
Which was the first school dedicated to the training of the practical nurse in the United States? -
answer✔✔The Ballard School of Nursing in Brooklyn, New York.
What system of comprehensive patient care considers the physical, emotional, social,
environmental and spiritual needs of a person? - answer✔✔Holistic health care
What official agency exists exclusively for LPN/LVN membership and promotes standards for
the LPN/LVN? - answer✔✔NFLPN
The student nurse reviewing the history of nursing knows that the "Lady with the Lamp" is
_______? - answer✔✔Florence Nightingale
Isabel Hampton Robb and Lavinia Doc organized the American Society of the Superintendents
of Training Schools of Nursing in 1894. What was the major goal of the organization? -
answer✔✔To set educational standards for nurses
True or False: A major criterion in differentiating between the roles of the RN and the LVN is
the level of independence of the practice activities. - answer✔✔True
True or False: Primitive people believed that a person became sick when a microscopic organism
entered the body and that immunizations and good hygiene kept diseases away. -
answer✔✔False
Match "Wellness-illness continuum" and "Health and Illness Prevention" - answer✔✔Well-ness:
a patient reaching his/her highest level of optimal health
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