Nursing Quiz
Try out this Nursing quiz to test your knowledge. Nursing trivia highlights the skills, traditions, and milestones that have shaped patient care from early bedside caregiving to the modern clinical profession.
15 questions
~3 min to finish
Easy to hard difficulty
480 pts max score
Question 1 · Hard · 40 pts
Who is recognized as America's first professionally trained nurse after graduating in 1873 from the New England Hospital for Women and Children?
Question 2 · Hard · 40 pts
What was the name of the nursing school that opened in 1873 at Massachusetts General Hospital?
Question 3 · Hard · 40 pts
Which nursing education report was published in 1923?
Question 4 · Hard · 40 pts
Name the nursing education report published in 1948.?
Question 5 · Hard · 40 pts
Who proposed the associate degree nursing model in 1952?
Question 6 · Hard · 40 pts
Which nurse co-founded the first nurse practitioner program with pediatrician Henry Silver in 1965?
Question 7 · Hard · 40 pts
The first nurse practitioner program had what clinical focus?
Question 8 · Hard · 40 pts
Who co-edited the four-volume History of Nursing issued between 1907 and 1912?
Question 9 · Hard · 40 pts
Who wrote Nursing: Its Principles and Practice in 1893?
Question 10 · Hard · 40 pts
During what broader workforce condition were the Hallmarks of Magnet hospitals first studied in the early 1980s?
Question 11 · Hard · 40 pts
Which honor society in nursing was founded in 1922 at Indiana University?
Question 12 · Easy · 10 pts
Which nursing pioneer opened a nursing school in 1860 at St Thomas' Hospital in London?
Question 13 · Easy · 10 pts
Who founded the American Red Cross in 1881?
Question 14 · Easy · 10 pts
Florence Nightingale became famous for her work during which war?
Question 15 · Easy · 10 pts
Mary Breckinridge founded what nursing service in Kentucky in 1925?