STATE BOARD QUESTIONS BEING THE ACTUAL QUESTIONS SUBMITTED COMPILED AND EDITED BY JOHN FOOTE, M.D. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF THERAPEUTICS, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY PUBLISHED MAY, 1917 REPRINTED SEPTEMBER, 1917; JANUARY, 1919 AUGUST, 1920 JUNE 1921 Electrotyped and Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company W 55 579 1919 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION IN preparing a second edition of this book which has been so generously received by the nursing profession, occasion has been taken to include a number of questions not in the original volume which have been found in the papers submitted by various State Examining Boards for Nurses in the United States and Canada during the years 1916, 1917 and 1918. An analysis of these examination papers showed that an average of 70 per cent. of all questions asked were answered by this small volume, the variation running as low as 60 per cent. in some papers and as high as 90 per cent. in others. This sustains in a practical manner the belief that this volume would prove a compact compendium of nursing knowledge to supplement, but not to supplant, the various text books. May, 1919. J. F. PREFACE THE questions included in this volume have been compiled from the actual examination papers submitted to candidates for the title Registered Nurse in thirty-one states. Their publication here has been made possible through the courtesy of the secretaries of these various examining boards, and their compilation was facilitated by the generous assistance of several members of the nursing profession. The writer is especially grateful to Miss Laura McHale, Superintendent of Nurses of Freedman's Hospital, Washington, D. C., for aid in preparing the answers on "Dietetics," and to the Sister Superintendent of Nurses, of Providence Hospital, Washington, D. C., for general assistance and valuable aid in the answers on "General Nursing" and "Ethics." Because some examining boards differed from others in classifying their questions under definite group headings, some repetitions of questions will be found. For instance, many papers on Nursing contained questions on Urinalysis, while others grouped such questions under a separate heading. Practically all of the questions included here appeared several times -some of them were found in nearly every list of the hundreds of papers examined and utilized. For this reason the writer believes that this volume may be looked upon as a fairly typical condensation of the kind of knowledge the State Examiners believe the trained nurse should possess in order to properly practice her profession. It may be found of value, therefore, as a guide to study by the student, as well as a guide for the direction of study by the teacher. It is in no sense a text-book. Instead the writer refers the reader to the following authoritative works which were of great value in preparing the text: "Practical Nursing," Pope and Maxwell; "Lippincott's New Medical Dictionary "; " Materia Medica and Therapeutics," Foote; "Nurses' Handbook of Obstetrics," Cook; "Surgical and Gynecological Nursing," Parker and Breckenridge; 51599 |