TFN Chapter 05

Where was Florence Nightingale was born in?

Florence Nightingale's criteria for professional nurses are, except:

• Young women

• Middle class women

• with professional nurse training

• with basic general education

What role do patients portray in the view of Florence Nightingale?

• Active Role

• Passive Role

Nightingale believed in the respect for persons of various backgrounds and being judgmental about social worth.

• True

• False

According to Florence Nightingale, health is being well and using every power or resource to the fullest extent in living life.

• True

• False

Based on the philosophy of Nightingale, nurses need to use ____________ ___________ in practice.

Florence Nightingale emphasized that nurses needed to be excellent ____________ of patients and their environment.

Nursing caring behaviors influence the patient’s reparative process. These behavior/s is/are: (check all which apply)

• Observing patients at night

• Sitting with patients during the dying process

• Standing beside patients during surgical procedures

• Writing letters to them

• Providing a reading room and materials during recuperation

Popularly called the Lady with the Lamp.

According to Nightingale, disease was nature’s effort to remedy a process of poisoning or decay, or it was a reaction against the conditions in which a person was placed.

• True

• False