LVN Fundamentals Exam 1 With
complete solutions 2024/2025
What association is the official membership for licensed practical nurses/
licensed vocational nurses?
NFLPN (NATIONAL FEDERATION OF LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSES)
What nursing leader is credited with the development of the American Red
Cross?
Clara Barton
The healthcare system is the complete network of agencies, facilities, and all
providers of health care in a specified geographic area. What is the best
description of the major goal of the healthcare system?
Achieve optimal levels of health care for a defined population through adequate
and appropriate health care services
What is the name of the first school of training for the practical nurse established
in 1892 in Brooklyn, New York?
Ballard School
The LVN knows that building the nurse-patient relationship is important in
providing patient care, and a legal relationship is formed. If there is a breach in
this relationship and harm to the patient has occurred, which legal action can the
nurse be charge with?
Malpractice (the failure to meet a legal duty that results in harm to another)
When caring for patients, the nurse knows that part of the ethical principles
include all patients having the same right to nursing interventions. What is the
term for this principal?
Justice (nurse must allocate time among all the assigned patients to meet their
needs)
Florence Nightingale
Known as the lady of the lamp.
, First nursing theorist, founder of modern nursing. Establish nursing school at
Saint Thomas Hospital in London. Promoted new health standards in nursing
*handwashing. she cared for wounded soldiers while making rounds with a lamp.
Lillian Wald (1867-1940)
Founder of Henry Street settlement
Margaret Sanger
Founder of Planned Parenthood. Birth control activists-nurse who opened the
first birth control clinic which later became Planned Parenthood. Sought the
decriminalization of contraceptive use and abortions.
National League for Nursing (NLN)
Control of curriculum for nursing education
Clara Barton (1821-1912)
Established American Red Cross.
American Nurses Association (ANA)
Professional nursing organization, fosters high standards of nursing practice &
promotes the rights of nurses in the workplace
1st states to mandate nursing licensure
North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Virginia
LPN/LVN
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