Florence Nightingale described conditions needed to promote health and healing in Notes on Nursing (1859). Which of the following directly inspired her?
a. Medicine
b. Nursing practice
c. Clean patient areas
d. The disease process
B
Nightingale was directly inspired by nursing practice.
Nightingale's conceptualization clearly differentiated the role of nursing from that of medicine.
Clean patient areas, fresh air, and light were important environmental factors needed to promote health and healing.
Nursing practice shifted from the disease process to environments conducive to healing.
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