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Florence Nightingale is acknowledged as one of the individuals who contributed most significantly to the development of nursing as a profession. What other phenomenon contributed most to this development?
 
  A) Labor-saving technology that freed many women from working in the home
  B) The social recognition of the importance of public funding for the treatment of disease
  C) Increased understanding of the pathophysiology of illness and the importance of infection
  control
  D) The high mortality rates that existed during times of war

Question 2

Which one of the following statements accurately describes an element of the process of providing a definition of nursing?
 
  A) Researchers can pinpoint the period in history when nursing first evolved.
  B) Nurses agree on a single definition of nursing, partly because of the history of nursing.
  C) There is an obvious distinction between nursing and medicine.
  D) Nursing theorists developed definitions of nursing consistent with their conceptual
  frameworks.



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Answer to Question 1

Ans: D

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Ans: D



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